THE OPPORTUNITY
Join our team of high-performing designers who work in an exciting space to transform the way the world learns. You will build deep empathy and understanding of users, and use a broad set of inputs including business context and awareness of technical constraints, to craft delightful, useful, and usable experiences. Reporting to a Product Design Manager, you will join a strong and collaborative centralized Product Design team--inclusive of our UX Research and Accessibility practices--whose members focus on various product domains at D2L. You will also contribute cross-functionally to defining and executing initiatives where you’ve helped align user needs to key business outcomes.
WHAT WE PROVIDE
We think we offer something unique:
- 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
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
- 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
ROLE 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
As a senior contributor on the Product Design team, you will:
- 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
The ideal candidate will be co-located to D2L's Kitchener or Toronto locations, and/or work remotely within the EST time zone.
