Senior Product Designer
About KOHO
KOHO’s purpose is to empower Canadians to build a great financial foundation with products that are radically transparent and easy to manage. We first launched in 2017, and we have since built a community of over 1 million users. Leading investors around the globe believe in our vision, and we’ve successfully raised over $320M to make our vision a reality.
Discover our culture here and get the inside scoop from our team here!
About the role
As a Product Designer, you will be involved in every aspect of the product development process. You will be using your skills in design thinking, UX, interaction design, visual design and prototyping to create product experiences that deliver measurable value.
Our dream candidate has a passion for understanding our users and is an enthusiastic team player who enjoys working closely with other designers, engineers, data analysts, and product managers to build the best banking experience for Canadians. We're searching for someone with great talent, a super attitude and a passion for helping people through smarter designs.
What You’ll Do
Product Strategy & Planning:
- Contribute to the strategic planning of products by understanding user needs, market trends, and business goals.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to define product visions, roadmaps, and feature sets that align with user and business objectives.
User Research & Analysis:
- Lead and participate in user research activities, such as user interviews, usability testing, and surveys.
- Analyze and synthesize research findings to develop insights into user behavior, pain points, and preferences, which inform the design process and business strategy.
User-Centered Design:
- Champion a user-centered design approach, ensuring that the end-users' needs and goals are at the forefront of the design process.
- Create intuitive and engaging user experiences by applying user and problem-centric design methodologies
- Prepare wireframes, user flows, journey maps, and other artifacts to effectively communicate interactions and design ideas
- Apply a strong understanding of user interface and experience design to build simple, fun, and useful product experiences that help Canadians build credit, save and earn more money, and make more responsible financial decisions.
- Use your expertise in UI patterns, typography, colour, design systems, and accessibility to create consistent and scalable designs.
Design Leadership:
- Provide design leadership on the design team, and cross-functionally within the larger organization
- Guide and mentor other designers, fostering a positive & ego-free design culture that advocates for best design principles and practices.
Who You Are
- Experienced mobile UI/UX practitioner with 5+ years of experience working in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communicator — able to present designs to different audiences and clearly explain the rationale behind each design decision
- Proficient in user-centric design principles and processes including mobile design standards and best practices
- Good eye for UI/UX design and mastery of the methodology behind creating amazing user workflows
- An excellent collaborator who loves to work with others to understand and solve our user’s problems
- Self-directed, thriving on ambiguity, using your creativity and scrappiness to figure things out
- A creative problem solver who is highly resourceful in getting things done
- Proficient in the latest design software (Figma, Adobe CC, etc)
- Prepared with a strong portfolio demonstrating your design abilities and relevant product-building experiences
- Well-versed in consumer social/financial/B2C product design
At KOHO, we are dedicated to providing pay transparency to all candidates. Compensation at KOHO is determined through various factors including but not limited to: comparable salary market data within Canada, technical skill assessment, a holistic view of previous work history, and internal pay equity with other KOHO team members.
Target Base Salary Range
$125,000—$161,000 CAD
What's In It For You?
We invest time and resources into making sure KOHO is as good as the people we hire. Here are some of the reasons we attract the best people:
🧘♂️ Balance Your Life - Company-wide summer wellness days, winter holiday closure, personal days, a wellness spending account, and maternity & parental leave top-up
💻 Remote First - Work from anywhere in Canada with a budget to set up your home office
🆙 Level Up - Access to an in-house certified performance coach and an annual training budget
🥅 Reach Your Goals - Salary assessments twice per year
🙌 The KOHO Culture - We have won 7 "Great Place to Work ®" awards since 2019
🤝 Be an Owner - Every KOHO employee gets a generous amount of equity with a 10 year exercise window
The KOHO culture is one of collaboration, creativity, and diverse perspectives. We are committed to building and fostering an inclusive, accessible environment for everyone. If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding accessibility needs, please contact peopleaccessibility@koho.ca and the People and Culture team will be happy to help.
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