Senior Product Designer

Athennian Group; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Compensation: salary + equity + bonus

Work-Life Balance: generous vacation/s

Comprehensive Health Coverage

Job summary

Athennian is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape next-gen products and experiences. You will partner with Product, Engineering, customers, and executives to translate direction into intuitive, differentiating design, using AI-powered capabilities.

You'll move quickly from concept to execution, elevate design systems, and shape user-centric workflows across our governance software in a collaborative, fast-paced setting. Fully remote in Canada or the US.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Product Design, UX/UI or similar roles with a strong portfolio.
• Strong product thinking and ability to translate customer needs into design.
• Experience designing B2B SaaS and AI-enabled features.
• Proficiency with Figma/FigJam; use of Pendo and research methods.
• Hands-on with AI tools to prototype and test SaaS experiences.
• Ability to lead from discovery to execution and influence stakeholders.
• Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment with initiative.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Discovery with Product Managers and customers to define direction.
• Create differentiated, intuitive experiences beyond traditional enterprise UX.
• Shape AI experiences by translating capabilities into practical designs.
• Turn concepts into workflows, prototypes and high-quality designs quickly.
• Champion user needs while aligning with business goals and technical limits.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, customers, and leadership to stay aligned.
• Raise design quality and evolve design systems in partnership with Engineering.

Skills

Senior-level product design

Product thinking

UX/UI

AI experience

Modern product design

Discovery to delivery

Collaboration & influence

Startup experience

Tools

Figma

FigJam

Pendo

Claude

Cursor

Job description

Athennian delivers Governance Ops™ software that aligns legal, finance, tax and fund teams through a secure, integrated source of truth for entity and ownership data. The platform enables organizations managing complex corporate and investment structures to automate governance workflows, maintain audit-ready records and collaborate across functions with confidence.

More than 500,000 entities across over 150 countries are managed on Athennian, helping organizations modernize entity management and transform governance operations into a strategic advantage.

We are a fast-moving, solutions-driven team using an AI-forward approach to solve complex operational challenges. If you are passionate about building technology that transforms traditional industries, we’d love to have you join us.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to help shape the next generation of Athennian’s products and experiences. Reporting to the Manager of Product & Design, you’ll work at the intersection of product strategy, customer needs, emerging technology, and exceptional design. You’ll take complex B2B workflows and turn them into intuitive, modern experiences—while helping us push beyond traditional enterprise software patterns, particularly as we introduce new AI-powered capabilities.

This is a highly collaborative and influential role. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, customers, and the executive team to lead discovery, explore new concepts, challenge assumptions, and translate product direction into experiences that differentiate Athennian in the market.

We’re looking for someone who is curious, creative, decisive, and comfortable moving quickly. You should have strong design principles and opinions, while being equally comfortable testing those ideas, incorporating feedback, and evolving your thinking as we learn.

What you'll do

• Lead Product Discovery: Partner with Product Managers to lead discovery, understand customer problems, test assumptions, and translate insights into clear product direction.
• Create Differentiated Experiences: Bring a strong design perspective and push beyond traditional enterprise UX to create intuitive, modern experiences that differentiate Athennian in the market.
• Shape AI Experiences: Explore emerging AI interaction patterns and translate new capabilities into experiences that are useful, intuitive, and trustworthy.
• Move Quickly from Concept to Execution: Rapidly turn ideas into workflows, prototypes, and high-quality designs that help teams learn, make decisions, and move into development.
• Champion the User: Build a deep understanding of our customers and balance their needs with product strategy, business objectives, and technical considerations.
• Collaborate & Influence: Work closely with Product, Engineering, customers, and executive leadership to challenge assumptions, incorporate feedback, and maintain alignment with broader product direction.
• Drive Design Quality: Set a high bar for interaction and visual design, evolve our design systems and patterns, and partner with Engineering to ensure quality carries through to the final product.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Product Design , UX/UI, or similar roles, with a strong portfolio demonstrating ownership of complex, high-quality product experiences.
• Strong Product & Design Thinking: Strong design principles and product judgment, with the ability to simplify complex problems, challenge assumptions, and connect design decisions to customer and business outcomes.
• B2B SaaS & AI Experience: Experience designing complex B2B or enterprise software, with strong curiosity and ideally hands-on experience designing AI-powered features, workflows, or interactions.
• Modern Product Design, Research & AI Fluency: Advanced proficiency with Figma and FigJam, strong experience using Pendo and modern research methods to uncover and validate user needs, and hands-on fluency with AI tools such as Claude and Cursor to rapidly explore, prototype, test, and deliver sophisticated SaaS and AI-enabled experiences.
• Discovery & Execution: Proven ability to lead customer discovery and validation, rapidly translate insights into prototypes and designs, and move effectively from ambiguity through delivery.
• Collaboration & Influence: A highly collaborative communicator who can bring a strong point of view, work effectively with Product and Engineering, and confidently incorporate feedback from customers and executive leadership.
• Startup Experience: Experience thriving in a fast-paced, outcomes-driven startup environment where initiative, collaboration, and a bias for action are key to driving success.

Location

This role is fully remote within Canada or the US. Wherever you're based, you'll be part of a connected, collaborative, high-performing team that values flexibility and trust.

Our Culture

We thrive in a fast-paced startup environment where every team member plays a critical role in our success. We value ambitious, results-driven people who spot opportunities, take initiative and go the extra mile. Collaboration fuels our growth as we take on new challenges, learn constantly and move quickly. If you're a go-getter who thrives on impact, you'll fit right in. Our values are:

• Outcome Driven : We focus on setting ambitious goals and achieving measurable results, valuing success by the outcomes we deliver.
• Wide Responsibility : Our team is empowered to shape success, taking ownership from problem identification to solution implementation.
• Learning Mindset : We embrace curiosity, rejecting the status quo and encouraging continuous learning and agility.
• Strategic Speed : We make fast, effective decisions and embrace a bias for action to seize opportunities quickly.

Benefits at Athennian

We keep things simple and invest in the perks that matter — your wellbeing, growth and flexibility.

• Compensation: Competitive salary, equity and performance-based bonus structure.
• Work-Life Balance: A minimum of 3 weeks vacation, 5 sick days and 6 personal/flex days, plus a company-wide winter holiday shutdown.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, vision, long-term disability and a Health Spending Account (HSA).
• Family Support: Flexible parental leave, including top-ups.
• Remote Setup: A work-from-home allowance to get you set up for success.