Product Designer
Benevity
- Calgary, AB
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Enabling some of the biggest brands in the world to engage their customers in donating and volunteering, improving their communities and the world we all live in
- Shape the way our clients build relationships with non-profit organizations, from the hyper-local to truly global
- Helping employees organize around issues they care about, enabling them to educate and engage with their coworkers in meaningful ways
- Guide our clients as to what their employees are passionate about so they can make more informed choices around where to make larger commitments
- Report directly to a Product Design Manager and be responsible for the design quality of your product area
- Work collaboratively with your PM and Engineering peers to uncover and design solutions to our varied product challenges
- Conduct UX research to define problems clearly and assess the usability of your designs
- Uphold the highest standards of accessibility and inclusiveness in your product area
- Actively participate in ongoing planning activities with your team. Ensuring that work flowing into the team accurately captures acceptance criteria for functional and non-functional requirements
- Cross-functionally champion your designs across Benevity
- Build strong, inclusive, collaborative relationships with peers, including designers, product managers, developers, and other cross-functional team members
- Contribute thoughtfully to building an inclusive environment for everyone
- A strong portfolio showcasing your proven experience designing products that achieve real outcomes
- Experience in designing and delivering products, preferably for the B2B SaaS market
- Can demonstrate the ability to use various methods to get the most out of all phases of design thinking.
- Can demonstrate your skill in using the right pattern for the right platform be it native mobile, or responsive web.
- Well-crafted visual aesthetic, eye for pattern recognition, and an eye for detail
- You have developed communication, collaboration and creative problem-solving skills: an ability to lead and the humility to adapt
- Conduct your own generative and evaluative research studies
- Experience creating solutions that meet WCAG compliance and other inclusive design principles
- Comfortable leading meetings and facilitating workshops
- You are a cultural contributor and mentor to others
- Can use the right design tool at the right time to generate insights, high and low-fidelity prototypes, and developer-ready documentation
- A curiosity-driven approach, valuing feedback and inclusivity
- Understanding and proficiency using Figma
- Be a part of a product experience team that genuinely cares for each other and the work we do - we are a very supportive and empathetic group
- A team that's growing in size: which means opportunities for leadership if you are interested
- Giving, volunteering, and granting are surprisingly complex and rewarding problem spaces to work in
- To become a better product designer and have a tangible impact on the world here at Benevity
- Focus on outcomes, not output. Creating more acts of goodness in the world guides everything we do
- Have regular conversations with your lead and manager about your personal growth as a designer
- A flexible work location. We have offices in Calgary and Barcelona but being fully remote isn't an issue for us. Our team's culture is remote first to ensure everyone on the team feels included in everything we do. A safe and collaborative environment, where we design for everyone
- Autonomy to balance the needs of the business with the expectations of your personal life
- $2,500 per year in charitable donations and volunteer matching through our giving program
- Initial interview with our design manager focused on how your skills match our job posting (60 min)
- The In-depth Portfolio presentation where you share a deep dive into your past work (60 minutes)
- The Team Interview where you get to meet some of the members of your product team (60 minutes)
- Interview with product experience leadership (60 minutes)