Product Designer 2

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D2L

πŸ’΅ $57k-$68k
πŸ“Remote - Canada

Summary

Join D2L's high-performing design team and contribute to transforming the way the world learns. You will craft delightful user experiences, collaborating with cross-functional partners to define, implement, and measure designs. Reporting to the product design leader, you'll be part of a collaborative team focused on various D2L areas. D2L offers a supportive community, growing design systems, opportunities for market engagement, and strong collaboration with product management and engineering. You'll have a chance to do meaningful work and contribute to lifelong learning. The role requires strong design skills, experience with style guides and design systems, and excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Requirements

  • The ability to craft beautiful designs and delightful, useful, and usable experiences; you have strengths in visual, interaction, and motion design
  • Demonstrated experience developing style guides and contributing to design systems
  • An understanding of the broader UX practice and a story about your process; you can illustrate how you work with narrative, artifacts, successes, and challenges
  • Awareness that good design is both about what you do and how you do it; you demonstrate that you care about both
  • Curiosity combined with a desire to learn and grow; you're a life-long learner who is willing to explore new tools and approaches
  • Openness, objectivity, and self-awareness; you are collaborative and seek and share feedback and ideas with your peers
  • Strong presentation and facilitation skills; you frame, structure, and present work clearly and confidently, including to product stakeholders and senior leaders
  • A sense of empathy and a user focus; you apply empathy both to your design work and with your project peers

Responsibilities

  • With support, understand and apply activities within the product design process at D2L from project inception to delivery
  • Design workflows and experiences that are usable, functional, and consistent
  • Complete defined inclusive design and accessibility activities to craft accessible experiences
  • Develop expertise in the project domain and an understanding of the broader domain, user flow, or product area (product and pedagogy)
  • Collaborate with other contributors in a broad scope design initiative or related product areas. You take ownership of project activities and deliverables
  • You educate and advocate with the project team on product design activities and contribute to defining a vision
  • Participate in design reviews by framing and sharing works in progress throughout the process and by sharing useful and actionable feedback with peers
  • Collaborate with UX Research, and support research activities through identifying research needs, providing project context, and aligning on outcomes; assist with note-taking and analysis

Preferred Qualifications

  • Leads by Example with personal and professional integrity, high accountability and say/do ratio
  • Boundaryless collaboration and influence skills both within team, peer group and broader organization. Effective communicator with a proven track record of impact beyond the immediate team and for the business
  • Delivers Awesome Outcomes : Strategic mindset and business acumen, with strong prioritization skills and a focus on organizational outcomes vs. team tasks. Effective problem solver, able to achieve results individually and through others, in fast paced, deadline-driven environments
  • Talent Magnet : Talent-focused leader, with demonstrated ability to coach, build and lead a high performing, diverse team
  • Better, Smarter, Faster : An agile learner, with a growth mindset, attention to detail and organizational skills. An operationally minded leader, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation
  • Wins Hearts and Minds : An effective communicator, with the ability to connect the why and the what. A change agent, with proven delegation, motivation, and team building skills

Benefits

  • A supportive, talented, and collaborative community of product designers and user experience researchers; we learn from each other to develop the skills to do great work
  • A maturing practice with growing tools and design systems; we all get to inform the growth of our design culture and practice
  • Opportunities to engage with prospects, buyers, and end users to gain early market traction for a new product and business line; you will have an impact on the business
  • Strong collaboration with Product Management and Engineering to understand business and user problems, define and implement a solution, and measure its success; you will have opportunities to practice across all aspects of design
  • A chance to do meaningful work; we contribute to life-long learning to change the way the world learns
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Learning and Growth opportunities
  • Tuition reimbursement of up to $4,000 CAD for continuing education through our Catch the Wave Program
  • 2 Paid Days off for Catch the Wave related activities like exams or final assignments
  • Employee wellbeing (Access to mental health services, EFAP program, financial planning and more)
  • Retirement planning
  • 2 Paid Volunteer Days
  • Competitive Benefits Package
  • Home Internet Reimbursements
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Wellness Reimbursement
  • Employee Recognition
  • Social Events
  • Dog Friendly Offices at our HQ in Kitchener, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Melbourne
  • Wellness Subsidy
  • Equity Grants
  • Variable Incentive
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