Senior Product Designer

We're building a movement - an education revolution. We're building a world where anyone, anywhere can have access to the best education regardless of where they were born. At our core, we believe education is a right, not a privilege. To that end, we're building a company and a suite of products to lead the charge in transforming access to education.

ApplyBoard is an online platform that empowers students around the world to access the best education by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and academic institutions. We simplify the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process. Not only do we help students with their study abroad journey, but we also help academic institutions to find the best students globally. Our goal is to help enable better, more diverse, schools that are enriched with cultures from all over the world.

The Opportunity:

As a Senior Designer, you will envision and create useful, usable, and delightful products for our users. You will be collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify user needs, test possibilities, iterate towards valuable and elegant user-centric solutions that satisfy and delight. You live and breathe design-thinking, and restlessly seek to understand and empathize with users and other stakeholders, reduce complex systems into simple contexts, align teams on a user-centric solution, test and improve, and share your knowledge with others.

What you will be doing:

• Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, marketing, and other designers to explore, create, and ship your designs.
• Identify user needs through qualitative and quantitative research methods including interviews and surveys and usability tests.
• Ensure team alignment on user needs, and simplify complexities by mapping and sharing user insights (e.g., through empathy maps, journey maps, personas) Ideate with teams and visualize flows and interactions with user flows, task flows, wireframes, and lo/hi fidelity prototypes.
• Validate solutions and test hypotheses by planning, conducting, and reporting results of usability tests.
• Iterate based on user feedback, stakeholder feedback, and design critiques.
• Ensure the design is communicated clearly and effectively to product development teams and implemented to match your design specification.
• Mentor and lead junior team members to improve their technical craft.
• Influence, contribute to, and maintain our design system, design standards, research and operational processes.
• Champion a user-centered mindset in the organization and cultivate a culture of collaboration within and across teams.

What you bring:

• 5+ years of experience in UX/Product design
• Bachelors or Masters degree in design, human computer interaction or related fields
• Passion for solving product problems while balancing all aspects of user experience (strategy, information, interaction design, etc.)
• A deep and broad understanding of the end-to-end iterative design process, including user research and testing, stakeholder alignment, information architecture, content, interaction design, design specification and communication.
• Proficiency in interaction design across various devices and platforms (responsive design and native mobile experience) Proficiency in conducting user research and usability testing
• Experience collaborating closely with multiple disciplines, including product and engineering
• Experience with design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Miro, and Confluence.
• A portfolio that reflects your design process and expertise in web and mobile; articulates problems, goals, and outcomes (for users and business); and shows evidence of research, testing and design iterations.
• Excellent organizational, time and project management skills
• Compelling storytelling and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to perform in an agile, start-up or scale-up environment

What We Offer:

• The opportunity to have an impact on a product that is positively affecting change to thousands of students lives every day
• Working alongside a brilliant and globally diverse team based in Waterloo and Toronto
• Great compensation and benefits package to keep you healthy and happy!
• Thank you for your interest in ApplyBoard, however, only those applicants that have been selected for an interview will be contacted.

At ApplyBoard, we understand the value of having a diverse team. That's why we believe in providing equal opportunity regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, and conviction. Please let us know if you require accommodation during the recruitment process.