Senior Product Designer

About Float

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 top-rated startups in 2024 and 2023 Float is customer-obsessed 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 decision-making 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 5000 Canadian companies Float provides high-limit corporate cards automated expense management next-day bill payments high-yield accounts and fast friendly supportall built in Canada for Canada. Float is backed by world-class 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 mission-driven 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 Role

Were looking for a creative innovative and customer-obsessed 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.

What Youll Be Responsible For

• Working closely with our Product Management Engineering Operations Marketing and Sales teams to take products from broad concepts through implementation and launch.

• Partnering 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.

• Owning the look feel and experience of our user-facing application design flows and experiences ensuring theyre simple and elegant.

• Prioritizing activities based on business and customer impact focusing on features that move the needle. Communicating the why behind the product roadmap prioritization and sequencing.

• Developing and delivering mock-ups prototypes and detailed specifications to communicate design and interaction.

• Taking broad conceptual ideas and transforming them into useful and valuable experiences for our customers.

About You

Heres what sets you up for success at Float:

• You Put Customers First Always. You care deeply about delivering meaningful value. Whether youre building internal systems or customer-facing features youre always thinking about how to make life better for our users.

• You Act Like an Owner. You take responsibility for outcomes step up to challenges and seek solutions proactivelydoing whats best for the business not just your role.

• You Think Big and Move Fast. Youre energized by building from 0 to 1. Youre not afraid to challenge the status quo experiment quickly and learn as you go.

• You Constantly Learn and Grow. Youre hungry to improve your craft and open to feedback. You bring a growth mindset to everything you do.

• You Raise the Bar. You care about doing things well and efficiently. You balance speed with rigor and always look for ways to improve how we work.

• You Win as a Team. Youre a generous collaborator who values communication context and shared wins. You lift others up and help make the team stronger.

In addition to living our values...

• Youve got the experience. Were looking for 3-5 years of Product Design experience preferably in B2B SaaS early to mid-stage startup environments. You understand modern front-end 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 auto-layout everything.

• Youre comfortable with ambiguity. Youre scrappy 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 cross-functional 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 problem-solve 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 may not be the role for you if

• Youre not driven by the vision of building Canadas top business finance platform.

• Youre not an outstanding communicator.

• Youre unable to juggle multiple priorities.

• 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.

Why You Should Join

• Work at one of Canadas fastest-growing fintech companies

• Make a real impact in a high-autonomy high-growth role

• Collaborate with an ambitious and supportive team

• Competitive compensation equity options and benefits

• Hybrid work model we are based in Toronto with in-office days for connection and collaboration

• Enjoy catered team lunches every Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday

• Bring your pup to our dog-friendly office

• Thrive in a high-trust high-performance culture where your work truly matters

In Short

At Float youll thrive if youre bold curious and eager to make a real impact. Were building something specialand having a lot of fun along the way. If youre excited to build grow and win together wed love to meet you.

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