Lead Product Designer

Montreal - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Were looking for a Product Design Leader to shape the future of our platform this role youll champion holistic design thinking drive the evolution of our design system and lead initiatives that balance user needs business goals and technical realities. Youll play a pivotal role in shaping how users interact with our productsguiding research elevating usability and ensuring accessibility and inclusivity are at the core.

Your responsibilities will include:

Product Experience & Design Leadership

Champion holistic product thinking by considering how new features integrate with and impact existing workflows ensuring design decisions contribute to a coherent and scalable platform experience.
Define and own the design system ensuring visual and interaction consistency across our platform.
Lead design initiatives across multiple modules from discovery to delivery.
Collaborate closely with Product Managers Technical Business Analysts and Tech Leads during feature shaping to align design with business logic and technical feasibility.
Guide design prioritization to balance user needs business goals and delivery constraints.
Coach and mentor Product Designers fostering skill growth and design excellence across the team.

User Research & Usability

Integrate UX writing and microcopy into the design process ensuring that in-product language is clear empathetic and aligned with the user context.
Shape and drive research efforts to gather insights from end-users (customers ESG analysts etc.).
Translate user feedback into actionable design iterations and UX enhancements.
Contribute to usability testing plans metrics definition and product instrumentation for UX KPIs.

Cross-functional Collaboration

Act as the design voice in the shaping triangle (PM UX Tech Lead).
Coach and mentor other designers driving excellence in UX craft and methodology.
Collaborate with AI/ML and Data teams to explore and define human-AI interaction models.

Design Operations & Governance

- Own the scalability of design practices and documentation across teams.
- Implement design reviews and rituals that drive feedback alignment and velocity.
- Ensure accessibility and inclusivity are embedded in design processes.

What were looking for:

7 years of experience in product design including enterprise SaaS.
3 year in working experience as a Lead UX;
Proven experience leading design in complex data-rich products.
Strong UI craft and UX thinking from systems to microinteractions.
Experience working with or building design systems.
Excellent collaboration skills with product engineering and data teams.
Familiarity with tools like Figma and prototyping environments.
Experience with ESG reporting compliance or data-intensive workflows (an asset).

What we offer:

Join an early-stage well-financed company
Advance Novistos purpose of contributing to the sustainability of the economy environment and society by empowering companies to make better decisions and disclosures through our ESG data management software
Contribute your knowledge and insights to increase awareness and knowledge of sustainability
Generous health benefits (100% Insurance coverage & access to Dialogues telemedicine app)
Flexible schedules & opportunity to work remotely
4 weeks of vacation
Summer hours
If you prefer to work at the office we have a beautiful office in Old Montreal close to downtown and steps away from a metro (subway) station

Were looking for a Product Design Leader to shape the future of our platform this role youll champion holistic design thinking drive the evolution of our design system and lead initiatives that balance user needs business goals and technical realities. Youll play a pivotal role in shaping how users...