Product Designer

Curve Dental, LLC; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A software company for dental practices is seeking a Product Designer to enhance user experience and interface design for their applications. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years in product design, a strong portfolio, and experience with user research. Responsibilities include designing features from concept to delivery, conducting user studies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This role emphasizes ownership of design processes while contributing to a collaborative work environment that values input and innovation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or similar.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating design process and visual design craft.
• Experience conducting user research with real users.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design for features within your product area.
• Conduct user research to inform your design work.
• Use and contribute to our design system.

Skills

UX design

Visual design

User research

Prototyping tools (e.g., Figma)

Collaboration

Tools

Figma

Prototyping tools

Job description

Curve Dental is looking for a skilled and driven individual to join our team! Curve provides Dental Practices with award winning software and high-level customer support. Our software allows dentists to manage their full business including patient scheduling, billing, imaging and record keeping.

Beyond the day to day business we are committed to building a work environment where employees feel safe and appreciated for their contributions. We value our team's individual and combined success, and we have fun along the way!

Role Overview

As a Product Designer at Curve Dental, you'll shape how dental practices interact with our software every day — designing experiences that make complex workflows feel simple and help offices run more efficiently. You'll own the design for features and product areas from concept through delivery, partnering closely with Product Managers and Developers to solve real problems for real users.

This role is ideal for a designer who has built a solid foundation in UX and visual design and is ready to take on more ownership. You'll work with some independence — driving design for your assigned areas while collaborating with the broader design team on standards and feedback. You'll have opportunities to conduct user research, contribute to our design system, and grow your craft through regular critiques and mentorship.

The ideal candidate is curious about how users actually work, sweats the details that make an interface feel polished, and communicates their design rationale clearly to non-designers.

Key Responsibilities

Design Execution & Craft

• Own the end-to-end design for features within your product area — from early concepts and wireframes through high-fidelity designs and interaction specs.
• Create designs that balance usability, visual polish, and technical feasibility, accounting for edge cases, error states, and the realities of how dental offices actually work.
• Sweat the details that matter: clear hierarchy, intuitive navigation, appropriate information density, and accessible design choices.

User Research & Discovery

• Conduct user research to inform your design work — including customer interviews, usability tests, and workflow observation sessions.
• Build empathy for our users by understanding their daily routines, frustrations, and goals — not just their feature requests.
• Test your assumptions early through prototypes and concept validation before investing in pixel-perfect designs.

Design System & Standards

• Use and contribute to our design system, applying existing components where appropriate and proposing new patterns when gaps exist.
• Document your design decisions clearly so engineers can implement accurately and future designers can understand the rationale.
• Stay current on design best practices and bring ideas from outside Curve that could raise our quality bar.
• Partner day-to-day with Product Managers and Engineers, participating in planning, refinement, and problem-solving throughout the development cycle.
• Give and receive feedback constructively in design critiques, helping teammates improve their work while staying open to improving your own.
• Communicate proactively when you're blocked, when scope is creeping, or when you see risks in the current direction.
• Manage your own workload across multiple projects, balancing speed with quality and flagging tradeoffs when timelines are tight.
• Understand the priorities driving your product area and align your design effort toward the outcomes that matter most.
• Know when to polish and when to ship — not every screen needs the same level of investment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or a similar role working on software products with data-dense interfaces or workflow-heavy use cases.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating your design process, problem-solving approach, and craft across interaction and visual design.
• Proficiency with Figma and other prototyping tools - using them to create everything from rough wireframes that test ideas to polished specs that are ready for development.
• Experimental mindset that loves to test how AI can help find, test, and accelerate new ideas
• Experience conducting user research — you've talked to real users, not just designed from assumptions.
• Collaborative and agile mindset that thrives working through uncertainty alongside product managers & development teams.
• Clear communication skills — you can explain your design decisions to engineers, PMs, and stakeholders without jargon.