Remote Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Vidyard as a Staff Product Designer to develop and execute a strategic UX vision for our various features and products, working closely with the Product Design team to deliver holistic design experiences for users.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Product Designer in a software company
• A strong understanding of the research and testing methods required to develop customer empathy, discover and validate ideas
• Ability to own the end-to-end design process
• Ability to zoom out to conceptual level design and zoom in to high fidelity prototypes
• Experience working in a squad with Product Managers and Software Developers
• Experience in a Product-led Growth (PLG) company is considered an asset
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally across Marketing, Sales, BizOps, and Customer Experience teams
• Excellent organization and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design the right things! Continuously deepen your understanding of our users through research and discovery. Use insights to drive the product strategy and connect design initiatives with business outcomes
• Help us make user delight and ease of use a key differentiator of our product. Help the team continuously push the quality bar of our UX. Help evolve and set the vision of our design system
• Presenting work to senior leadership with thoughtful storytelling to help influence and inspire. Help facilitate collaboration with the Designers across Product teams to create a high quality, cohesive user experience
• Balancing long term vision with short term execution. Continuously shipping value that is aligned to the vision
• Regularly coach members of the design team. Help educate others outside of the design team on the value of great design. Help implement improvements to team processes like critiques and team meetings

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive, flexible benefits on day one
• Wellness allowance to spend on what's important to you
• Unlimited vacation + programs to support travel while working, enabling you to live your best life
• Access to Inkblot, a digital mental health platform + $1,500/person/year for mental health coverage
• Allowance to support your ongoing growth and development
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid volunteer hours
• Employee resource groups to empower and drive change at Vidyard and in our communities
• RRSP match
• Stock options
• Flexible holiday program
• Home office stipend
• Flexibility to work in the place that brings out your best: whether you thrive in the comfort of your home office, or are local to, and prefer the energy of our collaboration space in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, there is flexibility for all