Product Designer II

Confluent, Inc; Montreal; Remote; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a mid-career Product Designer to join their team. This role involves leading design initiatives for a cloud-based data streaming platform, advocating for user research, and ensuring design excellence. Ideal candidates will have experience in SaaS or B2B environments and a strong portfolio showcasing their design process and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience as a Product Designer.
• Experience in SaaS or B2B environments.
• Ability to advocate for design in product delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead design initiatives for Confluent Cloud data streaming platform.
• Craft best-in-class user experiences and perform usability testing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to launch new product experiences.

Skills

User Research

Interaction Design

Prototyping

Collaboration

Design System Implementation

Education

Portfolio showcasing design projects

Job description

With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role :

This product design role is a remote, mid-career opportunity for candidates based in Canada. The ideal candidate would have experience working in SaaS or B2B environments and be adept at tackling complex design projects. This designer will be part of the Confluent product design organization, working alongside about 20 other designers focused on similarly complex problems.

What You Will Do :

• Lead design initiatives for various features of the Confluent Cloud data streaming platform.
• Translate complex conceptual ideas into interaction or service design solutions tailored to meet the needs of our unique customer base of developers and operators.
• Drive product strategy by acting as the voice of the customer and aligning user needs with business and technical requirements.
• Craft consistent, delightful, best-in-class user experiences and provide feedback to other designers to ensure design excellence.
• Perform usability testing, gather feedback from end users, and share findings and recommendations with the broader team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and fellow designers to launch new product experiences, track performance, and iterate on enhancements.

What You Will Bring :

• Experience collaborating closely with product and engineering teams to implement features that are both delightful for the user and feasible for the business.
• Ability to advocate for the role of design or user research in the product delivery process.
• Experience consistently implementing a Design System.
• Comfortable leading user research sessions, alone or with support from peers.
• Enthusiastic about giving and receiving constructive feedback to drive design excellence.
• Proficiency in producing realistic prototypes to convey interaction design concepts.
• A portfolio showcasing your design process, design projects, and associated outcomes.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Product Designer.
• This position is open to candidates located anywhere in Canada, with occasional travel required (1-2 times per quarter).

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