Principal Designer

Summary

Join MetaLab as a Principal Designer and lead design projects, elevating design quality and mentoring colleagues. You will work across multiple creative disciplines, delivering exceptional work on challenging projects, often defining the product experience. As a multidisciplinary designer, you'll bridge experience, visual, and motion design to create digital products. You will collaborate with various teams, including brand, engineering, and product teams, and present to clients. The role requires senior-level experience in UX, UI, and motion design, strong communication skills, and a proven track record in product development. Remote candidates are welcome.

Requirements

• Experience working in collaborative, highly iterative, cross-functional teams, sharing work daily
• Proven experience across UX, UI, and Motion design at a senior level, with a portfolio that showcases your range, typically T-shaped with your core discipline being UI and Motion design
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, enabling effective critique and design discussions, with a demonstrated ability to communicate design rationale and strategy effectively
• A track record of working across the product development cycle, from initial vision and discovery through to detailed design execution

Responsibilities

• Work across many aspects of the design process
• Set the bar for quality on your projects
• Identify opportunities to elevate the work and the team around you, often pushing clients and colleagues outside of their comfort zones to deliver exceptional products
• Support other designers of all levels in the work and help to promote an inspiring and inclusive environment for the team
• Work closely with our brand team to ensure that the brand principles are translated into the products we design
• Collaborate with design specialists
• Participate with research and strategy to generate and evaluate design opportunities, and test solutions through storyboards and prototypes
• Collaborate directly with and present to key client team members
• Work hand-in-hand with engineers and product team members to foster innovation and ensure feasibility and fidelity of implementation
• If desired, you have the opportunity to coach and mentor other designers
• Share your knowledge and approach to the craft with the broader design team at MetaLab and the wider industry

Preferred Qualifications

3D skills are a bonus

Benefits

• Remote work
• Expected Pay Range: CAD $135,000 - $175,000