Senior Product Designer – Opportunity
A Senior Product Designer uses a broad set of inputs, including business context, awareness of technical considerations and constraints, UX research, and UX skills and expertise, to craft experiences that are accessible, useful, and usable.

How You Will Make an Impact

Understand, scale, 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

Share expertise in the project domain area and develop expertise in the broader domain, user flow, or product area (product and pedagogy)

Identify activities and deliverables for large projects of high complexity

Influence priorities, scope, and roadmap

Take ownership of project activities and deliverables.

Foster collaboration with other designers on a large project or part of a broad scope design initiative

Support other designers on adjacent projects or within a broader initiative

Contribute to defining a vision for an initiative

Educate and advocate with the project team on product design activities

Share strategic deliverables with the design team and outside of project team

Complete defined inclusive design and accessibility activities to craft accessible experiences

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

What You’ll Bring – Competencies
Consistent competencies

Adaptability + resiliency

Drive + enthusiasm

Innovation + creativity

Openness + curiosity

Self-awareness + growth mindset

Developing competencies

Advocacy + inclusivity

Considering range of end users' and stakeholders'





Striving for equitable and inclusive outcomes

Champion users' needs and our inclusive design process

Collaboration + relationship building

Networking, connecting with the right people

Developing empathy, trust, and respect with and for colleagues and stakeholders

Establishing rapport

Recognizing + responding to perspectives of others

Communication

Negotiating and ensuring alignment across collaborators

Sharing own POV clearly and concisely

Asking questions and listening actively

Conveying difficult, complex, and/or critical material in an easy to understand style and manner

Anchor design walkthroughs in previous steps and inputs and in meaningful user narratives; Show how earlier inputs and insights inform subsequent steps

Analysis and decision making

Balancing rigour and thoroughness with pragmatic constraints

Engaging in critical thinking and systematic analysis

Considering multiple inputs and options in making decisions

Embracing complexity

Skills

Applying UX and accessibility heuristics, best practices, and patterns

Crafting design explorations that incorporate business, technical, and UX research inputs

Conducting system and domain analysis

Identifying and synthesizing a variety of inputs

Base Salary Range
$85,000—$106,000 CAD

Advantages

Impactful work transforming 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 SkillsWave Program

2 Paid Days off for SkillsWave-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 Spaces at our HQ in Kitchener, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Melbourne offices.

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📌 Senior Product Designer (12 Month Contract) (Ontario)
🏢 D2L
📍 Ontario