Modiface - Senior Product Designer

L'OREAL GROUP; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beauty technology firm in Toronto is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join their innovative team at ModiFace. In this role, you will engage in user research, support user-centered design, and contribute to the development of cutting-edge AR/AI technologies. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in Figma and a proven track record in delivering exceptional digital products. This position offers competitive salary and benefits in a collaborative and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Health & Dental Benefits

Wellness & Training programs

Profit Sharing

RRSP Matching

Social activities

Team lunches

Stocked kitchen

Qualifications

• Proven track record in shipping digital products, ideally with AR/AI technologies.
• Expertise in user research and design iteration.
• Ability to utilize collaborative design tools effectively.

Responsibilities

• Conduct user research and validate design concepts.
• Support user-centered design throughout the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance design processes.

Skills

User Research Methodologies

Design Iteration & Prototyping

Figma Proficiency

Interaction Design

Visual Design

Information Architecture & UX Writing

Cross-functional Collaboration & Communication

Facilitation

Empathy

Tools

Figma

Job description

Overview

Join ModiFace, a pioneering AR/AI tech company and a key part of L\'Oréal\'s Beauty Tech Accelerator of Services within the Online + Offline (O+O) department. Our patented technology, developed with L\'Oréal R&I and academic researchers, delivers industry-leading virtual try-on, diagnostics, and hair colour simulation to hundreds of millions globally. As a Senior Product Designer, you will contribute to complete product areas, exploring, experimenting, and crafting innovative solutions within cross-functional squads. This role demands a designer ready to uncover user needs, explore and validate new concepts through research and prototyping, craft high-quality experiences leveraging tools like Figma, and proactively help shape the future of beauty tech services alongside a team of skilled peers.

Responsibilities

• Apply User Research & Concept Validation: Engage in user research (interviews, usability testing, surveys) to gather insights, then visualize, prototype, test and validate new design concepts for virtual try-on and emerging beauty tech services.


• Advocate for User-Centered Design: Support user needs and collaborate with product, tech, and business teams, ensuring design decisions are informed by data and aligned with business objectives.


• Contribute to End-to-End Design: Contribute to the design of our Virtual Try-On, CMS, and exploratory concepts from ideation to high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes, ensuring iteration and refinement based on user feedback.


• Be an Engaged Member of Our Team: Collaborate with design, tech, and product teams across our portfolio through weekly rituals, including critique and brainstorming sessions, elevating our processes and output.

Above all, we are looking for people who are curious, collaborative, value making an impact, and are passionate about the intersection of human experience and emerging tech. Sounds like a good fit? Apply now!

You\'ll Stand Out If

You have a proven track record of contributing to the successful shipment of multiple digital products, ideally with experience in consumer-facing applications or innovative technologies like AR/AI, utilizing industry-standard tools like Figma and agile methodology.

Hard Skills & Core Design Expertise

• User Research Methodologies: Proficiency in various qualitative and quantitative user research methods and the ability to extract actionable insights.


• Design Iteration & Prototyping: Skill in rapid concept exploration, prototyping, and iterative design based on feedback.


• Figma Proficiency: Advanced command of Figma for wireframing, high-fidelity design, interactive prototyping, and collaborative workflows.


• Interaction Design: Knowledge of designing user flows and interactions for digital experiences.


• Visual Design: Understanding of visual principles to create clear and branded product interfaces built for scale.


• Information Architecture & UX Writing: Skill in structuring content and writing clear in-product copy.

Interpersonal & Collaborative Skills

• Cross-functional Collaboration & Communication: Ability to work effectively within diverse cross-functional teams, articulate design decisions, and influence product outcomes.


• Facilitation: Skills in leading design discussions and workshops.


• Empathy: An understanding for users and colleagues, fostering a collaborative environment.

What Design Means for Us

We are a Design team that collaborates with all the teams to craft inclusive, delightful and impactful experiences that are plug\'n\'play for our brands. This means empathizing with people, exploring new possibilities, making things tangible, crafting delightful experiences, shipping, learning and iterating. We believe Design starts at the very beginning and ends when our users are delighted. This requires focus, intention and strong collaboration with Product, Tech and anyone that has an impact on the experience. Finally, we believe in beauty for all, beauty for each, powered by Beauty Tech and Design is our secret sauce to get there.

What We Offer

When you join ModiFace, you\'ll enjoy working with a team of passionate software developers and business professionals who are open and collaborative within an inclusive environment. We offer an opportunity to advance and refine your skills and talent.

Along with a competitive salary, we offer access to Health & Dental Benefits, including company-sponsored Wellness & Training programs, Profit Sharing, RRSP Matching, Employee Assistance Programs, exciting in-office and off-site social activities, team lunches, a stocked kitchen, and more!

At ModiFace, we create software used by diverse people globally. We value diversity and inclusion within our team to ensure we can deliver the most fair and accessible technology possible, so we welcome and encourage all persons to apply. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.