Principal Product Designer

Summary

Join Metalab, a company shaping how we work, live, and play, as a Principal Product Designer. Lead design projects, elevating quality and mentoring colleagues. You will work across multiple creative disciplines, defining product experiences, and collaborating with various teams. This role requires senior-level experience in UX, UI, and motion design, strong communication skills, and a proven track record in product development. The position offers the opportunity to work remotely and includes a competitive salary range.

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
• 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

• We are open to remote candidates
• Expected Pay Range: CAD $135,000 - $175,000