Lead Product Designer

Posted:
10/8/2024, 2:47:24 AM

Location(s):
Ontario, Canada ⋅ Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
UI/UX & Design

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Who We Are

Simpplr delivers exceptional AI-powered employee experiences at scale. It is the only platform that unifies employee engagement, enablement, and self-service to provide every employee with a seamless and personalized experience so they can do their best work from anywhere. Organizations use our forward-looking, adaptable products to deliver personalized experiences that inspire and engage their employees. Wherever people work, Simpplr enables them to flourish.

Trusted by more than 700+ leading brands, including Penske, Snowflake, Moderna, Eurostar, and AAA, our customers are achieving measurable improvements in employee engagement, productivity, and accelerated business performance.

Simpplr is headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA with offices in the UK, Canada, and India, and is backed by Sapphire Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Tola Capital. Learn more at simpplr.com.

The Opportunity

Simpplr is looking for a Lead UX/UI designer who excels at user-centric product development to help design the future of work. This is a great opportunity to join a team responsible for a product that is defining the way companies engage and connect with their employees.

You’ll be working alongside talented and passionate product managers, UX/UI designers, researchers and remotely with members of our engineering team in US, India and the UK – all focused on collectively building a world class application. We bring our A-game every day, and have fun doing it. We  are looking for truly awesome, unbelievably talented creators to join us.

Your Job Responsibilities

What you will be doing:

  • Work through design problems from beginning to end: translating business strategy, research insights, and data into ideas that form disruptive new products and features and improving and simplifying existing workflows. 
  • Sketch and prototype ideas to quickly assess viability, and design the workflows and fine - grained details of interactions.
  • Use design thinking to drive cross functional alignment and use storytelling to inspire the team and the organization about the team’s vision and problems we are solving. 
  • Partner closely with cross - functional (product, engineering, and go to market) teams to regularly ship experiences that drive concrete business outcomes and solve user pain points. 
  • Iterate based on feedback from the whole team and your cross - functional partners. 
  • Act as a leader and coach within the Product Design team, collaborating with other designers to make their work and the whole team better.

Your Skillset

What makes you a great fit for the team:

  • Want to be part of creating amazing and innovative experiences that help solve real pain points for our customers while driving concrete metrics and business outcomes and know how to find the right balance. 
  • Use data and research to inform your design decisions and are able to assess the impact of your designs with quantitative and qualitative data. 
  • Are comfortable operating in a fast paced environment and ambiguous problem spaces Bonus: Worked in the B2B, HR, Productivity space or tackled issues related to communication systems for knowledge workers. 
  • Have a track record in using design thinking to drive cross functional alignment and storytelling. 
  • Have experience partnering with Product to envision long term product vision, strategy, and roadmap. 
  • Bring a strong sense of empathy and a user - centric approach to design. 
  • Are excited to work in a positive, supportive environment and want to collaborate as part of a high - caliber, cross - functional team that helps you grow. 
  • Have a portfolio showing compelling and quality design as well as a track record of driving design forward.

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Pay Range
$100,000$150,000 CAD

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Simpplr’s Hub-Hybrid-Remote Model:

At Simpplr we believe that when work is good, life is better and that belief guides all we do. Including how we approach our flexible work model. Simpplr operates with a Hub-Hybrid-Remote model. This model is role-based with exceptions and provides employees with the flexibility that many have told us they want.

  • Hub - 100% work from Simpplr office. Role requires Simpplifier to be in the office full-time.
  • Hybrid - Hybrid work from home and office. Role dictates the ability to work from home, plus benefit from in-person collaboration on a regular basis. 
  • Remote - 100% remote. Role can be done anywhere within your country of hire, as long as the requirements of the role are met. 

Simpplr

Website: https://www.simpplr.com/

Headquarter Location: Redwood City, California, United States

Employee Count: 251-500

Year Founded: 2014

IPO Status: Private

Last Funding Type: Series D

Industries: Collaboration ⋅ Enterprise Software ⋅ Human Resources ⋅ Information Technology ⋅ Software