Product Designer

Altaml; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped Vacation

Make an Impact

Working with PhD and Master Level Col8

Job summary

AltaML is seeking a product-design-focused designer to own usability risk on enterprise AI products. You will work directly with a product manager and a tech lead from discovery to shipped product, ensuring users can actually use what is built and love it.

As part of a design team, you will prototype fast, validate with real users, and contribute to a shared design system. The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers and product managers in a high-impact, fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Portfolio of shipped software with usability focus.
• Experience designing for enterprise AI products.

Responsibilities

• Own usability risk from discovery through shipped product and iterations.
• Lead discovery sessions with clients and end users to gather feedback.
• Prototype rapidly using shared design system and AI-assisted tools; iterate based on user input.

Job description

About Us

AltaML is a leading North American applied AI company with extensive experience in building and operationalizing AI software solutions.

We are a company like no other – we believe in making small bets, failing fast, and being better together. We are looking for creative problem-solvers who obsess about the customer to find wins across different industries.

We don’t hire for fit; we hire to add. We are looking for people who play our core values of being: Agile, Gritty Humble, and Happy. If you’re passionate about AI/ML, thrive in a dynamic environment, and want to work with a diverse team of wickedly smart people, we want to hear from you!

The Role

You will be the designer on a product team, working directly with a product manager and a tech lead. Not a design resource that work gets sent to. In the room, from the first discovery conversation to the shipped product and every iteration after.

Your job on that team is to own usability risk. The PM worries about whether it is valuable and viable, the tech lead worries about whether we can build it, and you worry about whether users can actually use it, and whether they will want to. On enterprise AI products that risk is real and it is where most of these products fail. Users do not trust what they cannot understand, and they quietly stop using what slows them down.

The way you attack that risk is discovery and prototypes. You will sit in discovery sessions with clients and their end users. You will turn what you hear into prototypes fast, put them in front of users, watch what happens, and iterate. Prototypes are how we answer questions here, not documents about prototypes. The bar is not software that works. The bar is software that customers love to use.

You will design within our shared design system and standards, and you will make them better. When you find a pattern that works, it goes back into the system so every team benefits. When a standard fails a user, you flag it and help fix the standard, so the same problem does not get rebuilt ten more times. We define design standards up front, precise enough that our AI coding tools build things right the first time, and your findings from real users are what keep those standards honest.

• Shipped software people actually use. A portfolio with real products behind it, and you can talk about what users did with them, not just how they looked.
• You prototype fast and think in iterations. Figma and AI-assisted design tools, working prototypes over static mocks, and you would rather test three rough versions this week than one polished version next month.
• You want to be in discovery. Talking to users is the part of the job you protect, not the part you delegate.
• You are good with engineers and good with users, and can move between the two without losing either.
• Accessibility is part of your craft. We build for government and public sector clients where accessible design is a requirement, not a nice to have.
• You create traction in a fast and sometimes messy environment. This is not a settled design org and it will not be for a while.

You will be working on new age AI products, helping design the future of how AI gets deployed with our platform. The work is using AI to improve the lives of our customers and making a real difference, ensuring what we build is not just usable but lovable, because lovable is what earns adoption and keeps it. Your prototypes will be in front of real users within weeks of joining, and there is real room to grow here as the design practice grows around you.

Responsible AI (RAI)

AltaML employees, contractors, and associates must be trained and well-versed in the importance of Responsible AI and empowered to enact RAI principles by developing and deploying AI solutions. They should also be empowered to raise and elevate RAI concerns as required.

AltaML is responsible for elevating public discourse and awareness of AI through open, transparent communications with the broader public.

Equal Opportunities

AltaML is dedicated to fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive workplace as an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds, encompassing ethnicity, religion, disability status, gender identity, sexual orientation, family status, age, nationality, and educational backgrounds. If you are invited for an interview and require accommodations during the interview process, please don’t hesitate to let us know.

AltaML acknowledges that its head office is located on Treaty 6 territory, and respects the histories, languages, and cultures of First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence continues to enrich our vibrant community.

We Look for A-Players Who:

• Express our core values
• Are hungry for knowledge
• Want to learn new skills
• Are respectful
• Collaborate with others across the whole company
• Share knowledge with coworkers
• Educate and promote AI and ML concepts both internally and externally
• Have a high work ethic and are self-motivated

Our Perks

• Uncapped Vacation: For all full time, permanent employees. Seriously, take the time you need - when you need it.
• Make an Impact: Witness the impact your work contribution has on the success of our company.
• Working with PhD and Master Level Colleagues: Endless conversations around the latest in Machine Learning and Applied AI.
• Competitive Benefits: For all full time, permanent employees.
• Office as a Resource: Hybrid work environment with state-of-the-art office spaces that ignite collaboration.
• Big Slack Energy: IYKYK.

Our Culture

You will be working in a high-paced environment focused on creating unique ML solutions to problems across multiple industries to generate impactful value. You will be working at a company with employees who have multiple years of industrial and academic experience in data science, software engineering, product development, and machine learning fields.

You will be able to experience a collaborative company culture, which means we believe in working hard, getting the job done, and enjoying the group social on Fridays. You’ll also get flexibility in where you work, what hours you work, how much vacation you take, and what you wear. We expect hard work but respect work/life balance.

Core Values

Gritty We are entrepreneurial, determined, and resilient, pushing through challenges to achieve our goals.

Agile We make decisions based on “little bets” creating a safe space to take risks. We embrace an interactive process, allowing ideas to fail quickly or be scaled iteratively. Together, we continuously refine and improve our approach to reach the desired outcome.

Humble We listen to data, embrace new ideas, admit limitations and take ownership to solve problems. We constantly push ourselves to improve and excel.

Happy We ignite passion and purpose by fostering a dynamic work environment. We encourage tap dancing to work, common sense over rules, empowering team members to find joy in their contributions, and being your authentic self.