Sr. Product Designer - Platform Architecture

Addepar; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Addepar is seeking a Senior Product Designer to enhance digital experiences for wealth managers through user-centered design. This role involves defining information architecture and collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive products. Ideal candidates will bring over 10 years of experience in product design and a strong portfolio demonstrating their skills. Join a technology company pioneering investment solutions with a commitment to client success.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Product Design, Information Architecture, or related fields.
• Portfolio showcasing user-centered design and information architecture for large systems.
• Experience in building SaaS platforms for enterprise users.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of the platform information architecture.
• Craft design patterns allowing extensions into the platform.
• Partner with research teams to define user mental models.

Skills

User-centered design practices

Information architecture

Strategic planning

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Tools

Figma

Job description

Remote, Canada

Who We Are

Addepar is a global technology and data company that helps investment professionals provide the most informed, precise guidance for their clients. Hundreds of thousands of users have entrusted Addepar to empower smarter investment decisions and better advice over the last decade. With client presence in more than 50 countries, Addepar’s platform aggregates portfolio, market and client data for over $7 trillion in assets. Addepar’s open platform integrates with more than 100 software, data and services partners to deliver a complete solution for a wide range of firms and use cases. Addepar embraces a global flexible workforce model with offices in Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, Edinburgh, Pune, and Dubai.

The Role

The UX & Design team at Addepar shapes wealth managers’ digital experiences. By designing and delivering intuitive, easy-to-use products, we help wealth managers grow their businesses and provide best-in-class services to their clients. We take an agile, high-growth attitude and champion a client-centered work environment with a focus on constructive feedback and collaboration.

We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Senior Product Designer with expertise in information architecture and SaaS platform to join our team. This is a unique opportunity to go beyond traditional product design and contribute to the underlying frameworks that empowers our entire ecosystem. You will define our strategic blueprint for how information and workflows are presented and accessed by users. You will focus on defining the information architecture, establishing and maintaining a comprehensive library of platform-level design patterns, and ensuring the scalability and coherence of our platform that seamlessly integrates Addepar’s interconnected suite of products and 3rd-party offerings.

What You’ll Do

• Envision and drive the evolution of our platform information architecture that streamlines workflows, enhances usability, enables discovery across Addepar’s product suite, and be flexible and adaptable to future growth.
• Craft shared components, design patterns, standards, and guidelines that allow both first and third-parties to extend directly into our platform, unlocking new ways of working on Addepar while ensuring consistency and efficiency across the platform.
• Champion user-centered design practices and make data-driven design decisions with both qualitative and quantitative insights. Partner closely with the user research team to define user mental models and jobs-to-be-done to shape the foundation of your design recommendations.
• Develop a deep understanding of the underlying technical architecture of our software platform and the implications of design decisions on platform performance, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Collaborate with product managers, UX researchers, other designers to ensure designs are aligned with business goals and user needs.
• Communicate design effectively to facilitate iterations and incremental enhancement delivery across many teams with design deliverables, such as diagrams, site maps, wireframes, prototypes, design specifications, presentation, etc.
• Promote your vision and plan across the R&D organisation, working with senior leadership to build alignment across disparate teams, each maintaining separate priorities and goals, to deliver an integrated platform experience.
• Seek out and embrace feedback from your peers and collaborators. Provide thoughtful feedback, empower, and mentor other designers on the team to do their best work.
• Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies, applying this knowledge to foster innovation within the team.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience working in the field of Product Design, Information Architecture, UX Architect, Interaction Design, or similar role.
• A portfolio showcasing strong user-centered design practices, information architecture design for large-scale systems with multiple interconnected products or services, deep technical understanding, and a high degree of design craftsmanship.
• Experience in building SaaS platform and web UI for enterprise users.
• Experience in creating and maintaining design systems and pattern libraries, ideally at a platform level.
• Strong system thinking, strategic planning, and problem-solving skills.
• Passion in distilling complex use cases and requirements into intuitive, scalable, and extensible design solutions.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with expertise in painting design vision and articulating design rationales to leadership stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented, with a keen eye for patterns and consistency.
• A self-starter and a teammate who enjoys working in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Proficient in Figma and other design and prototyping tools.
• Experience in the finance industry is not required, but a huge plus.

Our Values

• Act Like an Owner - Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes.
• Build Together - Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value.
• Champion Our Clients - Exceed client expectations. Our clients’ success is our success.
• Drive Innovation - Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry.
• Embrace Learning - Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset.

In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.

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