Staff Product Designer

Posted Oct 27

At Vidyard, we make life easier for sellers, marketers and corporate communicators. Our video messaging tools, digital sales room platform, and other products are used by 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 Staff Product Designer to join our Product Design team. Reporting to the Director of UX, you will be at the forefront of our UX strategy. 

At Vidyard we pride ourselves in our ability to iteratively ship value to the users. Over the years this has resulted in some great new features and functionality. The good news is that users are finding lots of value in the product, but along the way we started noticing that our product is not as simple, delightful or easy to use as it once was. That’s where you come in. In this critical role your main focus will be to develop and execute a strategic UX vision for how our various features and products work cohesively in a simple, delightful experience that users love.

About the Team

Our Product Design team includes (4) Sr. Designers that individually work alongside a product manager, a software development manager, and a team of skilled developers. This role would work closely alongside all product teams to help deliver holistic design experiences for our users.

What You’ll Work On

  • Product Strategy: Design the right things! Continuously deepen your understanding of our users through research and discovery. Use insights to drive the product strategy and connect design initiatives with business outcomes.
  • Craft & Quality: Design things right! Help us make user delight and ease of use a key differentiator of our product. Help the team continuously push the quality bar of our UX. Help evolve and set the vision of our design system.
  • Communication & Collaboration: Presenting work to senior leadership with thoughtful storytelling to help influence and inspire. Help facilitate collaboration with the Designers across Product teams to create a high quality, cohesive user experience.
  • Action & Impact: Balancing long term vision with short term execution. Continuously shipping value that is aligned to the vision.
  • Level Up Others: Regularly coach members of the design team. Help educate others outside of the design team on the value of great design. Help implement improvements to team processes like critiques and team meetings.

What You’ll Bring to this Role and Your New Team

  • 8+ years of experience as a Product Designer in a software company
  • A strong understanding of the research and testing methods required to develop customer empathy, discover and validate ideas.
  • Ability to own the end-to-end design process.
  • Ability to zoom out to conceptual level design and zoom in to high fidelity prototypes. 
  • Experience working in a squad with Product Managers and Software Developers.
  • Experience in a Product-led Growth (PLG) company is considered an asset.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally across Marketing, Sales, BizOps, and Customer Experience teams.
  • Excellent organization and communication skills.

Application Requirements

  • Submit your resume and portfolio of design work

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. We also 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 
  • 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.

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.