Lead Product Designer
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Job Description
- Location: This role can be based anywhere in Canada (excluding Quebec) as a fully remote position. For candidates located in the Vancouver BC Lower Mainland there is flexibility to work remote hybrid or onsite at our Surrey headquarters.
- Annual Base Salary: $110300 - $125700 CAD Profit Sharing Bonus eligibility
- The salary range represents our reasonable expectation of pay for this role. We may offer compensation outside this range based on the selected candidates qualifications experience and unique circumstances related to the position.
- Please note that employment is contingent upon the successful completion of reference checks and background checks including a Canadian criminal background check.
Application Instructions:
- Please submit your resume and cover letter in PDF format.
- Please include a link to your portfolio.
Lead Product Designer
As the Design Lead for FME Form youll play a strategic and hands-on role in shaping the experience of Safe Softwares core product FME Form while building design maturity and craft excellence across the organization. Youll guide the full design lifecycle - from discovery shaping ideation through to polished delivery - working closely with product management software development and executive leadership to create intuitive and powerful design solutions that support complex workflows.
Youll create and leverage a wide range of design artifacts to explore define and validate solutions and youll help elevate the broader design practice by mentoring others and embracing new methods including AI to improve efficiency and output.
About The Team
As part of the FME Form team youll join a cross-functional group of product managers software developers and designers who work closely together to shape Safe Softwares flagship product. The team is responsible for delivering powerful intuitive experiences that make complex data integration workflows more approachable and effective. We value collaboration open feedback and shared ownership and youll play a key role in ensuring design excellence and user-centered thinking are embedded throughout the product development process.
What Youll Be Doing
As a Lead Product Designer you will:
- Lead the end-to-end design process for major enterprise product initiatives from collaborating on opportunity framing design scoping and hands-on concept development to final design handoff and QA.
- Collaborate with and actively solicit feedback from product managers and technical stakeholders to prioritize opportunities align on vision scope features and inform roadmap decisions.
- Apply sound judgment to determine when a solution warrants quick tactical action (e.g. UI refinements interaction polish) versus when to invest in deeper research and iterative design cyclesand clearly communicate that rationale to key stakeholders.
- Lead discovery workshops and design sprints with cross-disciplinary teams to drive alignment and clarity.
Design Craft & Technical Fluency
- Work closely with technical stakeholders and domain experts to absorb complex workflows that inform the user experience and work through the complexity to distill into simpler solutions.
- Deliver a wide range of design artifacts including:
- User flows journey maps storyboardsand diagrams to model workflows and key handoff points.
- Low-fidelity sketches wireframes or rapid prototypes to collaboratively explore ideas and discuss tradeoffs.
- Diagrams to identity and address edge cases for highly technical workflows
- Hi-fidelity mockups and design specs
- Leverage AI tools to expedite ideation prototyping research synthesis and documentation and continuously look for ways to optimize the design pipeline through experimentation and emerging technologies.
User Research & Validation
- Conduct or collaborate on mixed-methods user research and translate research insights and behavioral data into clear actionable and concrete design directions.
Mentorship
- Provide support/guidance for design peers while striking a balance between providing support when needed and giving IC designers autonomy and empowering them to grow.
Qualifications Skills and Competencies
Safers come from a variety of backgrounds with a diversity in skills and knowledge. That said we find that those who are most successful in this role have experience with the following areas.
Required skills:
- 5 years of UX/product design experience with a strong portfolio of enterprise B2B or technical product work.
- Experience designing complex workflows or tools for developers analysts data engineers or other technical users.
- Comfortable engaging in technical conversations and synthesizing technical information and incorporating it into human-centered designs. Ideally you bring some technical knowledge such as:
- Familiarity with working across diverse data formats (e.g. GIS CAD databases raster JSON XML REST APIs/web/cloud services)
- An understanding of ETL concepts and data integration processes even at a high level to better design for user goals and constraints
- Ability to interpret workflows that involve databases APIs or automation and translate them into intuitive product experiences.
- Bonus: Familiarity with query languages (like SQL) or scripting (Python) to empathize with technical users.
- Confident communicator able to clearly articulate design decisions and trade-offs to technical teams and senior leadership.
Desired skills / Bonus points:
- Experience with desktop-native apps especially in performance-sensitive or data-rich environments.
What You Can Expect
When you choose a career with Safe Software youre also choosing
- Meaningful Work:Make a profound impact across our business workplace and data integration product.
- A Supportive Environment:Feel empowered to share your ideas and implement them with high autonomy and team support.
- Social Responsibility:Become part of a team that findsmeaningful ways to give back. Take paid time off to volunteer for one of our Safe-organized opportunities that align with our core community initiatives.
- Learning & Career Development:We believe in your continuous learning and growth. Take advantage of an annual learning budget and training programs paid for by Safe.
- Flexible Working Hours:Flexible and remote-friendly work arrangements to fit your lifestyle. Work when you want and how you want to.
- Work-Life Balance:Theres no place for burnout at Safe. Maintain a healthy balance of your personal and work life without splitting yourself in two. Enjoy 3 weeks of vacation to recharge plus an additional paid 6 seasonal days off per year.
- Health & Wellness:Extended health dental health or lifestyle spending and counseling benefits from day 1. Thats right no waiting period.
- Family is important:We are dedicated to supporting our employees through parenthood and offer a Parental Leave Top-Up Program for new parents through childbirth or adoption.
- Shared Success:Share in Safes success with our bi-annual profit sharing and RRSP/TFSA matching program.
- An Accessible Commute:Regardless of your commute method were located close to public transit and provide complimentary parking and bike storage for our team!
About Safe Software
Safe Software transforms organizations with FME the only All-Data Any-AI Enterprise Integration Platform connecting all your data anywhere at any velocity. With over 30 years of expertise and 25000 enterprise customers across 125 countries we simplify your data journey wherever it leads.
Founded in 1993 Safe isheadquartered in Surrey BCwith over 200 team members and counting. Were always looking for talented individuals withdiverse backgroundswho are determined to learn and grow. Are you ready to join the team
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Safe Software is an equal opportunity employer and we truly believe that innovation and strength begin with diversity and inclusion. We welcome all candidates regardless of race gender identity or expression sexual orientation age ability disability national or ethnic origin political belief religion or family status. Should you require accommodations during the recruitment process please contact.
Employment Type
Full-Time
