Product Designer Jobs

Product Designer

Canada’s leading crypto exchange

Competitive base + bonus + stock options + benefits

Toronto (Hybrid)

MPA has been retained by Canada’s leading and most trusted crypto currency exchange platform to recruit a Product Designer to join their team in Toronto. The company’s mission is to provide convenient, dependable, and secure access to Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Since 2016 they have grown from strength to strength having traded $5 billion in value and have 450,000+ users.

As a Product Designer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the user experience and interface of our products, ensuring they meet the highest standards of usability, aesthetics, and functionality. We are seeking someone who has experience shipping delightful digital products, and understands how to facilitate continuous discovery to improve UX, and to increase user value and drive business results. You’ll have plenty of autonomy to drive product design decisions, and you’ll be learning and working alongside a friendly and ambitious team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Design Strategy: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and stakeholders, to define design objectives, product roadmaps, and overall design strategy for our crypto products.

• User-Centric Design: Conduct user research, user testing, and gather insights to develop a deep understanding of our target audience, their needs, and pain points. Utilize these insights to create user-centric designs that enhance the overall user experience.

• Design Creation: Develop and deliver high-quality design concepts, wireframes, prototypes, and mockups that effectively communicate your design ideas and vision to both internal teams and external stakeholders.

• Design Standards and Guidelines: Establish and maintain design standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency, usability, and brand identity across all our crypto products, such as helping with implementing and maintaining a design system.

• Design Iteration and Improvement: Continuously iterate and improve the user experience based on user feedback, market trends, and industry standards. Strive for simplicity, efficiency, and elegance in all design solutions.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product managers, data analysts, engineers, and others to align product requirements, technical feasibility, and implementation details. Foster a culture of collaboration and cross-functional teamwork.

• Stakeholder Communication: Effectively present and articulate design concepts, ideas, and rationales to stakeholders, including executives, product managers, and engineers, while incorporating feedback and ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Qualifications:

• 2-3 years of experience as a product designer, with a focus on digital products and interfaces. Previous experience in the crypto or blockchain industry is highly desirable.

• Design Expertise: Strong portfolio showcasing your expertise in user-centric design, interaction design, visual design, and information architecture. Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar.

• User-Centered Approach: Deep understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies. Experience conducting user research, usability testing, and translating insights into actionable design improvements.

• Product Design Lifecycle: Solid understanding of the end-to-end product design lifecycle, from ideation to prototyping, implementation, and iterative improvement. Familiarity with agile development methodologies.

• Collaboration and Communication: Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams. Strong verbal and written communication skills to articulate design concepts and rationales to stakeholders.

To find out more about this position or to apply please send your resume to [email protected]