Staff Product Designer - ShareGate

Workleap; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Workleap is seeking a Staff Product Designer to drive high-impact product initiatives and mentor design teams. The role involves strategic leadership, customer-centric design principles, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in designing for business customers, a passion for innovation, and proficiency in design tools such as Figma. Join a team that values creativity and embraces experimentation to solve real problems in the workplace.

Benefits

Inclusive work environment

Professional growth opportunities

Flexible working conditions

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing experiences for business and enterprise customers.
• Proven track record of strategic impact.
• Strong collaboration with engineers.
• Experience mentoring and leading design teams.
• Curiosity for emerging UX patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex initiatives across multiple product areas.
• Guide teams to uncover user needs using rapid insights and behavioral data.
• Promote hypothesis-driven approaches and rapid validation of ideas.
• Mentor peers, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Set design standards balancing innovation and clarity.
• Evolve design systems to support rapid iteration.

Skills

Interaction design

Visual design

Accessibility

Inclusive UI patterns

Communication skills

Tools

Figma

Job description

Workleap builds practical employee experience software that makes work simpler.

Our products include Workleap , a simple employee experience platform to boost engagement, drive performance, and develop teams, and ShareGate by Workleap , a single, trusted out-of-the-box solution for fast and secure migration, adoption, and Copilot readiness—simplifying data management across Microsoft 365.

With over 20,000 happy customers in more than 100 countries, Workleap products are a must-have for businesses looking to create a more engaging and successful workplace.

Job Description

So, what will your new role look like?

As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll be a strategic leader and exemplar of craft excellence and cross-functional collaboration. You'll drive our highest-impact initiatives and set standards for ShareGate. You'll influence our long-term product vision, mentor designers, and align design initiatives closely with strategic business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Lead complex initiatives across multiple product areas, shaping scalable roadmaps by identifying strategic opportunities and translating them into actionable design solutions.
• Customer Obsession: Guide teams to uncover user needs using rapid insights, behavioral data, and MVP-driven experiments; embed customer-centric practices into scalable design systems.
• Experimentation & Innovation: Promote hypothesis-driven approaches, rapidly validating disruptive ideas through prototypes and experiments; mentor teams in lightweight methods for fast learning.
• Mentorship & Influence: Mentor peers, address systemic challenges, and ensure alignment with strategic goals, establishing processes that improve quality, collaboration, and delivery speed.
• Craft Excellence: Set design standards by balancing innovation, clarity, and scalability; use prototyping to communicate ideas clearly and push interaction boundaries through emerging technologies.
• System Thinking: Evolve design systems and patterns to support rapid iteration, maintain cohesion across products, and collaborate to improve content integration and usability.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and other teams to balance user needs with business priorities, guiding teams through strategic trade-offs.
• Impact & Execution: Identify and drive high-impact initiatives, encourage rapid experimentation and feedback, foster autonomy, and represent design leadership both internally and externally.

A typical week?

• Connect with your product trio and design team to align on priorities;
• Sketch ideas for experiment;
• Lead workshop with PMs and devs to align on hypotheses and actionable next steps;
• Prototype and test with users;
• Collaborate with your PM and developer trio to refine;
• Design reviews with design team, trio, and product leadership;
• Design team rituals like Weekly Warm-ups, Design Forums, and Cool-downs to share learnings and support each other;
• Shaping the long-term team in partnership with your Senior Manager, Product Design by participating in mentoring to grow the team.

What does your future team look like?

You’ll be the design lead for our ShareGate platform experience and new products. You’ll be part of a product trio and the ShareGate design team. You’ll work closely with product designers, content strategists, and leaders across ShareGate.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing experiences for business and enterprise customers with a proven track record of strategic impact;
• Expertise in interaction design, visual design, accessibility, and inclusive UI patterns;
• Strong collaboration with engineers, with a focus on systems that work in the real world;
• A passion for empowering others, simplifying complexity, and improving quality at scale;
• Experience mentoring, leading by example, and being a strong design partner;
• A curiosity for emerging UX patterns, especially in AI-driven and adaptive experiences;
• Fluency in design tools like Figma, and comfort shaping documentation and tooling;
• Excellent communication skills — you make ideas, decisions, and systems feel clear and approachable.

Who we are

We’re a team of curious minds and bold builders, brought together by a shared drive to make work simpler - and better - for everyone. Challenges fuel our creativity, fast-paced environments keep us sharp, and pushing boundaries is just part of how we operate. We believe the best ideas come from experimentation, rapid learning, and even the occasional discomfort - that’s where growth happens.

Since 2006, we’ve been rethinking the way teams work, blending creativity and tech to solve real problems in IT and HR. We move quickly, we learn constantly, and we always keep our customers at the center of what we do. If you're a proactive thinker who takes ownership, loves to collaborate, and isn’t afraid to leap into the unknown - you’ll fit right in.

Additional Information

AtWorkleap, we build together, we trusteach other,and we support each other in success or failure. You will be able to express yourself, evolve and develop your creativity in an environmentthat will adapt to your daily life and your needs.

We strive to create a healthy and inclusive work environment. This is everyone’s business.

Our Candidate Experience Flow atWorkleap:
Phone Screen - Virtual Interview using Microsoft Teams - Work Sample - Job Offer

We are looking forward to getting to know you!

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