Senior Product Designer
Ground News Remote (🇨🇦 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada)
The Senior Product Designer will own features end-to-end, from initial concept through shipping, encompassing research, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping across web and mobile platforms. Key duties include leading visual and motion design efforts and managing/evolving the Figma component library and design system during a full product redesign.
Responsibilities
- Own features from early concept through shipped product, including research, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping
- Lead visual and motion design work across web and mobile, with a high bar for craft and attention to detail
- Manage and evolve the Figma component library and design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across a redesigning product
- Design for complexity; making dense information and nuanced features feel intuitive and accessible
- Assist in user research, bringing a data-informed perspective to what problems are worth solving and why
- Collaborate closely and clearly with engineering, product, and leadership; communicating design rationale with precision and nuance
- Bring an ethical, experimentation-based perspective on where AI fits in the design workflow
Requirements
- Exceptional visual and interaction design skills
- Hands-on experience managing design systems and component libraries at scale (Figma proficiency expected)
- Motion design sensibility
- Experience designing products that simplify complex information for a broad audience
- Fluency with lean research methods
- Comfort working across both native mobile (iOS/Android) and web
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and ability to articulate design decisions clearly to engineers, PMs, and non-designers alike
- A point of view on AI in design workflows, built on real professional experience and experimentation
Benefits
- Remote-first environment: Work from anywhere in Canada, on your own time zone plus enjoy in-person meetups and team gatherings
- Health & Wellness that matter: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage for you and your family
- Keep growing: Access to professional development opportunities to keep expanding your skills and career
- Mission-driven team: Join a group of smart, dedicated people who are building meaningful products with real-world impact
Key Skills
About Ground News
By threading multiple perspectives from thousands of publications through one platform, Ground News frees people from algorithmic restraints, illuminates blindspots and makes media bias explicit. Neutral in assessment, efficient in consumption, all in service of empowering you to make educated decisions. Our vision is positive coexistence where cooperative, civil debate is the norm, media is accountable, and critical thought is the baseline of our information consumption. We’re not better news. We’re a better way to read it. PLATFORMS Website: https://ground.news iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1324203419 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.checkitt Newsletters: https://ground.news/newsletters TOOLS Browser Extension: https://ground.news/extension
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