Staff Product Designer, Golf

As a Staff Product Designer at Lightspeed Golf, you will lead the evolution of Chronogolf, our consumer-facing mobile product, focusing on transforming the tee time booking experience and engaging with golfers.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-level product portfolio initiatives through hands-on design, contributing significantly to product strategy and vision.
• Understands business objectives to solve highly abstract problems, applying strategic thinking.
• Shapes the organization to enable teams to solve problems efficiently.
• Knows how to break big problems into smaller experiments to validate assumptions, driving progress.
• Proactively explores and integrates AI and emerging technologies to shape new approaches.
• Works with product teams to develop and use design strategies based on data.
• Ensures designs meet user needs and support business goals.
• Helps create user scenarios and assists in journey mapping and mental model exercises.
• Independently drive in-squad UX research to generate actionable insights and influence the product roadmap through data-driven recommendations.
• Advocate for the user while building strong, trusting relationships with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, marketing).
• Demonstrates masterful understanding of design system principles and the current state of design within the industry.
• Defines and evolves systems, including typography, colour, depth, iconography, illustration, and layout, that works within brand and technical constraints.
• Understand and implement new design systems, ensuring consistency and efficiency across platforms, and contribute to the systems continual improvement.
• Provides mentorship to product designers and actively influences broader design strategies.
• Leads end-to-end work with minimal supervision.
• Manages own backlog independently.
• An exceptional performer with established trust across teams.
• Independently leads projects end-to-end and begins to identify new areas of opportunity.
• Has a scope of influence beyond their own project-level work, with results that benefit the broader team, without directly managing individuals.
• Collaborate with designers across product teams to elevate consistency and quality while refining team processes.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills to help you collaborate with global stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of design experience from product-driven tech companies, demonstrating measurable impact.
• Hands-on experience designing for mobile and touch-based interfaces.
• Proven ability to set and manage design priorities, guided by product and business needs.
• Expert knowledge of design systems implementation with demonstrated results improving user experiences.
• Strong aesthetic judgment informed by deep understanding of visual design principles and industry trends.
• Successful track record consulting with engineering teams to develop effective, feasible technical solutions.
• Experience using prototyping and research methodologies to validate decisions and drive product strategy.

Benefits

• Lightspeed share scheme (we are all owners)
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Flexible working policy
• Health insurance
• Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year
• Paid leave and assistance for new parents
• Mental health online platform and counselling & coaching services
• LinkedIn Learning license
• Volunteer day