Senior Product Designer, Browse/search UX

Senior Product Designer, Browse/Search UX

Actively looking for a new opportunity to work on a team focusing on projects with real business impact? Do you thrive in environments where you can help raise the bar for quality, drive collaboration, and mentor others to reach their full potential? If so, you might be in the right place!

Lightspeed is seeking a Senior Product Designer to design intuitive merchandise search and catalog (Browse/Search UX) experiences within our fast expanding retail and wholesale network. This role will help transform how merchants, suppliers, and brands discover new products and customers using the NuORDER Catalog.

The ideal candidate has a proven track record of transforming complex datasets to deliver understandable, and user-friendly interfaces on a variety of platforms. You identify opportunities to drive value, excel in collaborative environments partnering with engineers, and product managers to create exceptional customer experiences.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead high-level project work from a design perspective with autonomy and authority, facilitating design studios and working sessions to help the teams deliver the best possible solutions
• Leverage your UX expertise and understanding of design systems, UI design, and how micro-interactions can help users complete a task
• Turn nebulous concepts into specific ideas that are useful and delightful product features
• Design holistic systems, flows and interfaces that are simple, elegant, and user-friendly
• Understand how to best use the current design system to ensure consistency across platforms and contribute to its continuous improvement
• Draw insights from research and data, and know how to turn those insights into tangible solutions
• Build relationships and advocate for the user when collaborating with cross-functional teams in product, engineering, and marketing. Oversee the UX from conception to launch
• Be a positive role model and culture carrier within the studio as well as an advocate for design within the Lightspeed organization.

What You Need To Bring:

• At least 5 years of practical, in-house product, UX/UI design experience. At least 3 years for an e-commerce or B2B facing brand, with multi-sided marketplaces.
• Applied experience with service design practices and a practice of constantly evolving your design process
• Applied experience working across all digital and physical manifestations of what we design - from the responsive web to native applications to the next technological leap.
• Strong aesthetic and conceptual skills to help elevate the visual identity of our brands
• Excellent communication and visualization skills. You can bring internal stakeholders on your design journey and explain work with focus and brevity
• An understanding of design systems, prototyping, and user research methodologies
• A passion for sharing design strategies with fellow designers, product managers, and engineers to deliver better, more user-centred products
• An acute level of self-awareness and deep empathy - for both the customer and your team's goals
• A deep curiosity and ability to consider product strategy and vision. You don't just care about "how it looks," or "what we should design," but "why are we designing this at all?"
• An arsenal of design tools such as Figma, Google Suite, JIRA, and other prototyping tools.

We know that people are more than what's on their CV. If you're unsure that you have the right profile for the role... hit the 'Apply' button and give it a try!

What's In It For You?

You'll enjoy:

• A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work
• A culture that celebrates performance
• The chance to make an impact in a team that's big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard
• Career-defining opportunities

Plus benefits designed to keep you happy, healthy and fulfilled.

• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies
• Equity options, because this is your company too
• Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters
• Training opportunities to grow your skills and career
• Health and wellness credit so you feel your best
• Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
• Interest groups, employee led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams
• Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook
• Enhanced parental leave to support growing families

At Lightspeed, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your skillset, qualifications, experience, and market data. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We reasonably expect the base salary for this position to be in the range of $130,000 - $170,000 USD, depending on the candidate's location. Additionally, this role may be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives. Lightspeed also provides a variety of employee benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, wellness, life and disability insurance, 401K plan and match, paid parental leave top-up, and paid time off.

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal's gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.

Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.