About the role:As Centah's Product Designer, you are passionate about simplifying and improving user experience. You create simple, compelling, and meaningful product experiences that enable a wide variety of users to achieve their goals. You are a creative problem solver and communicator, delivering concepts from initial sketches through to testing and evaluating final implementations. You like to show your work and believe every design has a great story to tell.
Reporting to the Director of Product and working seamlessly as a part of our product and engineering teams, your empathy for users, and detailed approach to design, will assist our team in building a remarkable platform experience that centers effortless design as a cornerstone of our reputation. With thorough user research skills and an impeccable visual design sense you will champion efficient interfaces that accentuate our functionality.
What you'll be doing:- Actively contribute at every stage of the project lifecycle, collaborating with the project team to brainstorm concepts, develop creative solutions, and design user flows while meeting deadlines.
- Own core component libraries to evolve the Centah design system, driving the design, specification, and maintenance of complex UI components, ensuring they meet the highest standards of craft and usability.
- Champion visual quality and craft, ensuring that every component-from buttons to complex data tables-is polished, accessible, and aligned with our brand identity.
- Demonstrate curiosity about user behavior and leverage quantitative and qualitative research to inform product and design decisions.
- Work closely with product stakeholders refining requirements, performing user interviews and running internal feedback sessions to find opportunities for usability improvement within the platform.
- Collaborate with developers to ensure technical feasibility, accepting input and feedback from different groups and making occasional compromises to deliver high-quality products on time.
- Prioritize UX debt by understanding complex information architecture and system mapping.
- Synthesizing requirements from many sources into elegant succinct designs.
Who you are:- Strong communication skills; able to speak with a variety of stakeholders with confidence, adjusting message and delivery to meet the relevant audience
- Possesses a highly collaborative working style and demonstrated experience excelling in a cross-functional role
- Positively contribute to our company culture: embrace and embody our core values, promote a culture of inclusivity and belonging and celebrate wins together
Requirements- A portfolio of high-caliber work that showcases your design process from initial research to high-fidelity, responsive design.
- Expertise in modern Figma workflows (Auto-layout, Components, Variants, Properties) which enables building libraries and components that are easy for other designers to use.
- Disciplined organizational skills in both work prioritization and approach to figma file structure.
- Outstanding visual design skills with an eye for typography, layout, and hierarchy that demonstrates care for the details.
- Outstanding presentation and communication skills that help cross-functional teams understand the purpose behind designs.
- Demonstrated ability to identify gaps in systems and propose solutions without waiting to be asked.
- Fair grasp of how designs are implemented in code (HTML/CSS/React/Mobile) and can communicate effectively with developers about constraints and trade-offs.
Preferred Experience: - Enterprise or B2B software background.
- Home improvement or big-box retail experience.
BenefitsWinner of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures, twice. We offer more than just the basics, take advantage of:
- An award-winning culture with a collaborative & inclusive team.
- Competitive pay and performance-based bonus:
- Annual Base Salary: $95,000 - $105,000
- Annual Bonus: 20%
- Committed to flexible work arrangements, offering hybrid workplace options.
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage + Lifestyle Account.
- RRSP Matching and Parental Leave Top UP Program.
- In office massage, meditation & workout sessions.
- Virtual events such as Lunch & Learns, company parties, fun team activities and charity initiatives.
- Career learning and development programs.
Next Steps:If what you just read excites you, we'd like to hear from you! Please submit your application and we'll contact you if you are selected to move forward in the process.
