Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join our team of high-performing designers at D2L, a cloud company transforming education and the future of work. You will craft delightful user experiences, collaborating with a strong product design team. Responsibilities include designing workflows, ensuring accessibility, and collaborating on design initiatives. You'll need experience in system analysis, interaction, and UI design, along with strong presentation skills and a user-focused approach. D2L offers a supportive community, opportunities for growth, and a competitive benefits package, including flexible work arrangements, tuition reimbursement, and wellness programs.

Requirements

• The ability to craft beautiful designs and delightful, useful, and usable experiences; you have strengths in system analysis, interaction, and UI 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

• 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 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
• Mentor other product designers
• Be responsible for initiatives that touch core flows in the early stages of strategic initiatives
• Advocate for product design and user experience research activities and contributions, including engaging with early research and explorations
• Contribute to defining aspects of our maturing practice

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 conduct early research and exploration; we're problem solvers who get engaged early
• Balance and collaboration with our partners in Product Management and Development; we have a strong voice in our projects
• 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