WHO WE ARE
Our goal is to save ten-million hard-working employees ten-billion dollars. We are a values driven, well-funded, and fast-growing Financial Technology and HR company. We want to empower small and midsize businesses with financial tools that make them the place where people want to work.
We’ve created a financial empowerment platform that helps small but mighty HR teams make a big impact on employee financial wellness. ZayZoon is quickly becoming the employee financial wellness super-app that employees can’t live without, and employers are clamoring to offer to help attract and retain talent.
We are growing fast and have been recognized for rapid growth in the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Canadian Technology Fast 50 program! You can read more about it here.
The Role
As a Senior Product Designer at ZayZoon, you will shape the user experience of our HR tech products for SMBs (Small to Medium-sized Businesses) through intuitive, user-centered designs. As one of the leads on an empowered Product and Engineering pod, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead design initiatives, conduct user research, and contribute to our design system. This role drives innovation, ensures end-to-end, holistic product usability, and aligns with our company's strategic goals.
\n- Lead reactive day-to-day design projects and proactive design initiatives from concept to completion, serving SMBs in the HR Tech landscape.
- Conduct end-user research and usability testing with busy ZayZoon SMBs, dig in on analytics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods, managing those projects independently.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain a cohesive design system.
- Mentor junior designers.
- Aid in the development of organizational design maturity and Product team maturity.
- Define and track KPIs for design projects, calculating the ROI of design’s impact.
- Proactively identify problems and opportunities for innovation.
- Execute on roadmap and strategy with limited oversight.
- Strong understanding of design principles and accessibility.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to identify and propose problems, opportunities, and solutions.
- Ability to work reactively, integrated into an empowered team, and proactively, feeding that team new research insights and engaging stakeholders and teammates in new initiatives you propose.
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Visual Communication, HCI, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in product design with a strong portfolio of achieved and measured outcomes.
- Experience with creating and maintaining a design system with proficiency in design tools like Figma.
- Experience working in a B2B setting.
- Experience with user research methodologies, analytics, and data-driven design.
- A proven track record of mentoring junior team members.
- Strong change management skills.
- Experience in design ops, product ops, or overall raising of organizational design maturity.
- Experience with HR tech for SMBs will be seen as a big advantage.
- Experience with payroll systems or financial services is a plus.
- Proven ability to lead and manage large, cross-functional design projects.
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ANYTHING ELSE YOU MIGHT NEED TO KNOW
Candidates must be located in Canada to be considered.
We are organized as a remote team, as such we are looking for candidates who can work effectively remotely. You must have access to a secure high speed internet connection and a secure workspace to ensure security of private information. This role is available on a permanently remote basis.
Please note that a final step in our hiring process is for candidates to arrange personal reference calls with former managers and others we may choose and undergo a criminal record check along with a basic security clearance due to the nature of our business.
We wish to thank all qualified applicants for their interest in joining our team!
