Senior UX Designer

The Senior UX Designer will advocate for customers by conducting research and UX testing, while designing impactful solutions. They will collaborate with product and engineering teams to lead the Product Pod and manage the design backlog and roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Be the customer advocate: spend time with our customers, learning how they work and think, so that you can advocate for them at the RND table. Where valuable, spearhead customer research and UX testing activities.
• Design great products: Whether we’re iterating on existing features or building new ones, use your UX skillset to lead brainstorms, create wireframes, explore workflows, build prototypes, and craft mockups.
• Work cross-functionally: Partner with product and engineering to co-lead the most impactful pod in our organization, the Product Pod. Work directly with Front End engineers to make sure we’re launching high quality products.
• Own the design backlog and roadmap: Help navigate tradeoffs and build concrete plans for where and how to invest in things like design systems and navigational changes.

Requirements

• 5+ years as a UX designer on an agile-ish product development team, working from inception to launch on customer facing features.
• Broad UX skillset: ability to get hands dirty in many different parts of the design lifecycle, from research and idea validation, to concept development, to design and testing.
• Portfolio of representative work that highlights your skills as a problem solver.
• Ownership and growth mindset that helps you seek out new opportunities while knowing when to invest deeply and when to move fast.
• Strong organization skills and ability to work effectively across standard tools: Figma, Linear, Github, Storybook, etc.
• AI literacy: knowledge of using and spending time in products like Claude, Cursor, Loveable, and other systems. Opinions on how AI can make your job faster and better.

Key Skills

• UX design
• Customer advocacy
• Customer research and UX testing
• Wireframing
• Prototyping
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Design backlog and roadmap management
• AI literacy

Benefits

• Meaningful salary + equity: rewarded based on impact
• Work fully remotely in Canada where you are most productive whether that be from your house, or elsewhere.
• Flexible work hours: customize your schedule as long as it’s not disruptive to your role, team, and Hive
• Health + Insurance: Comprehensive health and dental coverage with a generous parental leave top-up program
• Unlimited vacation/PTO policy: so you can be happy and healthy!