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Float seeks a Senior Product Designer to enhance its innovative finance platform for Canadian businesses. In this role, you will craft valuable user experiences while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. Join a dynamic startup environment where your creativity drives the future of business finance.
Float is on a mission to simplify finance for Canadian businesses empowering them to eliminate complexity and unlock new opportunities. Through our innovative platform Float enables businesses to streamline financial operations and optimize cash flow so they can focus on what matters most : growth.
As one of Canadas fastest growing companies and toprated startups in 2024 and 2023 Float is customerobsessed passionate and entrepreneurial with a team that includes leaders from Uber Shopify Top Hat TouchBistro and Ada.
At Float everyone is an owner bringing their unique perspective to our team and product. Your voice is important and we take having a culture based on feedback seriously. We openly share our thoughts and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decisionmaking decentralized so that all team members feel ownership in our success.
Our Product
Float is Canadas complete business finance platform combining modern financial services and software to help businesses spend save and grow. Trusted by 4000 Canadian companies Float provides highlimit corporate cards automated expense management nextday bill payments highyield accounts and fast friendly supportall built in Canada for Canada. Float is backed by worldclass venture and fintech investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and OMERS Ventures partners behind our $70 million Series B raise .
Our team is a collection of ambitious collaborative and missiondriven people from all walks of life but with one goal : helping Canadian companies not just survive but thrive. And were looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance in Canada.
About the Senior Product Designer Role
Were looking for a creative innovative and customerobsessed Senior Product Designer to join Float! In this role youll be responsible for building a seamless Corporate Spending experience and creating and capturing value by accelerating the adoption and usage of our existing products.
As the Senior Product Designer at Float youll
Work closely with our Product Management Engineering Operations Marketing and Sales teams to take products from broad concepts through implementation and launch.
Partner with our customers to gain a deep understanding of their experiences and needs identifying and filling product gaps while generating new ideas that empower them and drive growth. Discover additional methods to analyze customer feedback and measure product outcomes.
Own the look feel and experience of our userfacing application design flows and experiences ensuring theyre simple and elegant.
Ruthlessly prioritize and scope activities based on business and customer impact focusing on features that move the needle. Communicate the why behind the product roadmap prioritization and sequencing.
Develop and deliver mockups prototypes and detailed specifications to communicate design and interaction.
Take broad conceptual ideas and transform them into useful and valuable experiences for our customers.
Youll be great in this role if
Youve got the experience. Were looking for 7 years of Product Design experience preferably in B2B SaaS early to midstage startup environments. You understand modern frontend engineering tools and practices and how they work together to deliver a great experience.
You sweat the details. Youre extremely technically proficient in Figma. You build clean reusable components based on existing constraints and autolayout everything.
Youre comfortable with ambiguity. Youre spy and enjoy finding creative ways to work through obstacles. Youve taken ownership of the product experience before and have outstanding time management skills.
Youre a strategic thinker. You can create a vision and you know how to execute it. You leverage quantitative and qualitative data to analyze your work and consistently improve products.
You are an excellent crossfunctional communicator. You effortlessly connect with any team in an org especially Engineering. You possess astute influencing skills and you have the ability to bring multiple stakeholders together and problemsolve between various groups. You are a skilled listener who is able to understand and synthesize diverse perspectives and opinions.
Youve got an understanding of the market. Youve worked with accounting / finance related products or have worked closely with finance leaders. Youre commercially focused with an understanding of the market and the business were in. Youre no stranger to an ROI mindset.
Youre customer obsessed. Youre all about building relationships understanding customer needs and advocating for them passionately. You care about the details that matter to them.
Youre an owner. You take complete ownership and accountability of delivery and outcomes. You translate business requirements into technical specifications overseeing the development process and ensuring successful deployment. You are ready and willing to make tough decisions to achieve broader business goals and outcomes.
This role wont be a fit if
Youre not driven by the vision of building Canadas top business finance platform.
Youre not an outstanding communicator.
You work best when a manager is always providing the next project.
You prefer predictable routines over the dynamic independent nature of startup culture.
Youre uncomfortable working independently remotely or asynchronously.
You arent a team player.
Resilience and openness to direct feedback arent your strengths.
You arent comfortable taking calculated risks.
You have an ego.
You like to play politics.
Dont meet every single requirement If youre excited about this role and you strongly align with our values but your past experience doesnt align perfectly we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this or other future positions.
Benefits and Perks of working at Float :
Flexible work hours and time off when you need to recharge
Small team lots of autonomy to make an impact
Opportunity to work with and learn from a worldclass team
A personal Float card with a quarterly stipend to spend on what matters most to you
A dogfriendly office
Being able to say you empowered Canadian businesses the heartbeat of our economy to thrive and grow
Were committed to building a workplace thats welcoming and accessible for everyone. If you need any accommodations during the hiring process or once you join Float just let us know! You can reach out to Vic and well work with you to make sure you have what you need to succeed.
Required Experience :
Senior IC
Key Skills
InVision,Interaction Design,Ux,Usability,Visual Design,Design Thinking,Zeplin,User Research,UI,IOS,Figma,Sketch
Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience : years
Vacancy : 1