Senior Product Designer, Growth
Vidyard is the video platform that's built for business. Sales reps, marketers, and corporate communicators use Vidyard to record and share videos that grab attention and deliver their message in a personal, impactful way. It's the video tool of choice for Microsoft, LinkedIn, and thousands of other companies. We're passionate about elevating our customers, our teammates, our communities, and ourselves.
About the Role:
Vidyard is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Growth team with a focus on the Growth of our product. Reporting to the Director of Growth, you'll have the opportunity to work closely with your cross-functional team of talented designers, product managers, engineers, marketers and data analysts. You will collaborate with your cross functional group to define roadmaps and goals to create beautifully designed products.
This role is currently available to candidates located in Canada.
About the Team:
Our Product Design team consists of 8 talented designers who come from a variety of experience backgrounds. They lead the end to end design process and are involved in everything from research, ideation to launch. Each designer is embedded in a squad that focuses on different parts of Vidyard’s product.
This designer will sit on our Growth team. Our Growth team is an autonomous organization that is responsible for accelerating Vidyard’s investments in Product-Led Growth and Self-Service, by rapidly experimenting across the user lifecycle. Our cross-functional team is staffed with Data, Engineering, Design and Marketing talent, and we’re responsible for delivering high-impact experiments that tangibly improve our users’ experience with our products. We’re passionate about A/B testing and validating hypotheses with data, as well as about maintaining high standards of software quality and performance. We collaborate with teams across all parts of the business to drive user acquisition, engagement,retention and monetization.
What You’ll Work On:
- Identifying problem areas, understanding user needs and designing solutions that enhance user onboarding, activation, retention and monetization.
- Designing delightful experiences across Vidyard’s website and product
- Conducting user testing to validate design solutions
- Creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs to effectively communicate and test your ideas.
- Designing the end to end user experience of our video creation, and editing tools
- Conducting user research initiatives to identify user needs, behaviours, and opportunities
- Rapid ideation of multiple design concepts and prototypes
- Conducting user testing to validate design solutions
- Collaborating with the design team to create a high quality, cohesive user experience
- Documenting design decisions, processes, and outcomes to ensure that product designs are consistent and can be replicated in the future
As a Senior Product Designer You Can Expect to:
- Own the UX Design strategy on the Growth team, partnering with your Product Manager and Engineering peers to ensure that designs meet user, technical and business requirements
- Accelerate Vidyard’s PLG motion by designing experiences that drive user acquisition, activation, retention and monetization
- Use a combination of data and qualitative user feedback to inform design decisions
- Experiment fast, and learn even faster
- Give and receive regular feedback in design critiques (with the Product Design organization) to improve product and web experiences
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in product-led growth
- Iterate and drive experimentation through design
What You’ll Bring to this Role and Your New Team:
- 5+ years of design experience at a product-led growth organization, ideally with a freemium to paid product
- A strong portfolio demonstrating your ability to design experiences that connect users to product value.
- Experience conducting user research, usability testing, and A/B testing to inform design decisions.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and can easily adapt to changing priorities. You are capable of executing with speed, without compromising on the quality of your work
- Experience with A/B testing and experimentation methodologies
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a passion for working with cross-functional teams and learning from the people in them
- A willingness to roll up your sleeves and learn new things every day
- Comfort with failure: you focus on learning from failures versus being demotivated by them
- A passion for all things Product-Led Growth!
Job descriptions can be overwhelming. At Vidyard we are motivated to drive change together and deeply value the unique experiences, abilities and opinions you possess, so if this role sounds like your next adventure, but you don’t feel entirely qualified, apply! We value candidates who own it, and if you’re relentlessly resourceful too, you might be exactly who we are looking for.
As we also value user obsession, we prioritize our users, customers and community so you can expect to hear from our team even if you are not selected to move forward.
What You’ll Love About Vidyard:
- Competitive pay
- Comprehensive, flexible benefits on day one*
- Wellness allowance to spend on what's important to you
- Flexible hours + unlimited vacation + programs to support travel while working, enabling you to live your best life
- Access to Inkblot, a digital mental health platform + $1,500/person/year for mental health coverage*
- Allowance to support your ongoing growth and development
- Parental leave top-up
- Paid volunteer hours
- Employee resource groups to empower and drive change at Vidyard and in our communities
- RRSP match*
- Stock options
- Flexible holiday program
- Home office stipend
- Flexibility to work in the place that brings out your best: whether you thrive in the comfort of your home office, or are local to, and prefer the energy of our collaboration space in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, there is flexibility for all. Although we default to remote-first there will be occasional in-person meetings/events purposefully designed for connection and collaboration.
*Benefits described are Canadian specific, if you’re located in another country our People team will speak with you about localized benefits for you.
We thank all applicants for your interest in Vidyard. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Unsolicited resumes from Agencies will not be accepted.
Vidyard is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should notify us at recruitment@vidyard.com.