Senior Product Designer, Browse/Search UX

Lead high-level project work from a design perspective, facilitating design studios and working sessions. Oversee the UX from conception to launch while advocating for the user in cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-level project work from a design perspective with autonomy and authority, facilitating design studios and working sessions to help the teams deliver the best possible solutions.
• Leverage your UX expertise and understanding of design systems, UI design, and how micro-interactions can help users complete a task.
• Turn nebulous concepts into specific ideas that are useful and delightful product features.
• Design holistic systems, flows and interfaces that are simple, elegant, and user-friendly.
• Understand how to best use the current design system to ensure consistency across platforms and contribute to its continuous improvement.
• Draw insights from research and data, and know how to turn those insights into tangible solutions.
• Build relationships and advocate for the user when collaborating with cross-functional teams in product, engineering, and marketing.
• Oversee the UX from conception to launch.
• Be a positive role model and culture carrier within the studio as well as an advocate for design within the Lightspeed organisation.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of practical, in-house product, UX/UI design experience.
• At least 3 years for an e-commerce or B2B facing brand, with multi-sided marketplaces.
• Applied experience with service design practices and a practice of constantly evolving your design process.
• Applied experience working across all digital and physical manifestations of what we design - from the responsive web to native applications to the next technological leap.
• Strong aesthetic and conceptual skills to help elevate the visual identity of our brands.
• Excellent communication and visualization skills.
• An understanding of design systems, prototyping, and user research methodologies.
• A passion for sharing design strategies with fellow designers, product managers, and engineers to deliver better, more user-centred products.
• An acute level of self-awareness and deep empathy - for both the customer and your team’s goals.
• A deep curiosity and ability to consider product strategy and vision.
• An arsenal of design tools such as Figma, Google Suite, JIRA, and other prototyping tools.

Key Skills

• Figma
• Google Suite
• JIRA
• Service design practices
• Design systems
• Prototyping
• User research methodologies
• Communication and visualization skills
• Aesthetic and conceptual skills
• Empathy
• Curiosity
• Product strategy and vision

Benefits

• A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work.
• A culture that celebrates performance.
• The chance to make an impact in a team that’s big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard.
• Career-defining opportunities.
• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies.
• Equity options.
• Contributions to your pension plan.
• Training opportunities to grow your skills and career.
• Health and wellness credit.
• Time off to volunteer and give back to your community.
• Interest groups, employee-led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams.
• Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook.
• Enhanced parental leave to support growing families.