Senior Product Designer (12 Month Contract)

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 9 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

To ensure an optimal candidate experience this role will close for applications on December 4 2025 at 11:59pm EST.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Join our team of high-performing designers who work in an exciting space to transform the way the world learns. You will build deep empathy and understanding of users and use a broad set of inputs including business context and awareness of technical constraints to craft delightful useful and usable experiences. Reporting to a Product Design Manager you will join a strong and collaborative centralized Product Design team--inclusive of our UX Research and Accessibility practices--whose members focus on various product domains at D2L. You will also contribute cross-functionally to defining and executing initiatives where youve helped align user needs to key business outcomes.

WHAT WE PROVIDE

We think we offer something unique:

A supportive talented and collaborative community of product designers and user experience researchers; we learn from each other to develop the skills to do great work
A maturing practice with growing tools and design systems; we all get to inform the growth of our design culture and practice
Opportunities to conduct early research and exploration; were problem solvers who get engaged early
Balance and collaboration with our partners in Product Management and Development; we have a strong voice in our projects
A chance to do meaningful work; we contribute to life-long learning to change the way the world learns

WHAT YOULL BRING:

The ability to craft beautiful designs and delightful useful and usable experiences; you have strengths in system analysis interaction and UI design
Demonstrated experience developing style guides and contributing to design systems
An understanding of the broader UX practice and a story about your process; you can illustrate how you work with narrative artifacts successes and challenges
Awareness that good design is both about what you do and how you do it; you demonstrate that you care about both
Curiosity combined with a desire to learn and grow; youre a life-long learner who is willing to explore new tools and approaches
Openness objectivity and self-awareness; you are collaborative and seek and share feedback and ideas with your peers
Strong presentation and facilitation skills; you frame structure and present work clearly and confidently including to product stakeholders and senior leaders
A sense of empathy and a user focus; you apply empathy both to your design work and with your project peers

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Understand and apply activities within the product design process at D2L from project inception to delivery
Design workflows and experiences that are usable functional and consistent
Complete inclusive design and accessibility activities to craft accessible experiences
Develop expertise in the project domain and an understanding of the broader domain user flow or product area (product and pedagogy)
Collaborate with other contributors in a broad scope design initiative or related product areas. You take ownership of project activities and deliverables.
You educate and advocate with the project team on product design activities and contribute to defining a vision
Participate in design reviews by framing and sharing works in progress throughout the process and by sharing useful and actionable feedback with peers
Collaborate with UX Research and support research activities through identifying research needs providing project context and aligning on outcomes; assist with note-taking and analysis

As a senior contributor on the Product Design team you will:

Mentor other product designers
Be responsible for initiatives that touch core flows in the early stages of strategic initiatives
Advocate for product design and user experience research activities and contributions including engaging with early research and explorations
Contribute to defining aspects of our maturing practice

The ideal candidate will be co-located to D2Ls Kitchener or Toronto locations and/or work remotely within the EST time zone. D2L operates in a hybrid work style with an in-office expectation of 3 days per week.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

To ensure an optimal candidate experience this role will close for applications on December 4 2025 at 11:59pm EST.THE OPPORTUNITYJoin our team of high-performing designers who work in an exciting space to transform the way the world learns. You will build deep empathy and understanding of users and ...

To ensure an optimal candidate experience this role will close for applications on December 4 2025 at 11:59pm EST.

THE OPPORTUNITY

WHAT WE PROVIDE

We think we offer something unique:

A supportive talented and collaborative community of product designers and user experience researchers; we learn from each other to develop the skills to do great work
A maturing practice with growing tools and design systems; we all get to inform the growth of our design culture and practice
Opportunities to conduct early research and exploration; were problem solvers who get engaged early
Balance and collaboration with our partners in Product Management and Development; we have a strong voice in our projects
A chance to do meaningful work; we contribute to life-long learning to change the way the world learns

WHAT YOULL BRING:

The ability to craft beautiful designs and delightful useful and usable experiences; you have strengths in system analysis interaction and UI design
Demonstrated experience developing style guides and contributing to design systems
An understanding of the broader UX practice and a story about your process; you can illustrate how you work with narrative artifacts successes and challenges
Awareness that good design is both about what you do and how you do it; you demonstrate that you care about both
Curiosity combined with a desire to learn and grow; youre a life-long learner who is willing to explore new tools and approaches
Openness objectivity and self-awareness; you are collaborative and seek and share feedback and ideas with your peers
Strong presentation and facilitation skills; you frame structure and present work clearly and confidently including to product stakeholders and senior leaders
A sense of empathy and a user focus; you apply empathy both to your design work and with your project peers

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Understand and apply activities within the product design process at D2L from project inception to delivery
Design workflows and experiences that are usable functional and consistent
Complete inclusive design and accessibility activities to craft accessible experiences
Develop expertise in the project domain and an understanding of the broader domain user flow or product area (product and pedagogy)
Collaborate with other contributors in a broad scope design initiative or related product areas. You take ownership of project activities and deliverables.
You educate and advocate with the project team on product design activities and contribute to defining a vision
Participate in design reviews by framing and sharing works in progress throughout the process and by sharing useful and actionable feedback with peers
Collaborate with UX Research and support research activities through identifying research needs providing project context and aligning on outcomes; assist with note-taking and analysis

As a senior contributor on the Product Design team you will:

Mentor other product designers
Be responsible for initiatives that touch core flows in the early stages of strategic initiatives
Advocate for product design and user experience research activities and contributions including engaging with early research and explorations
Contribute to defining aspects of our maturing practice

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Key Skills

InVision
Interaction Design
Ux
Usability
Visual Design
Design Thinking
Zeplin
User Research
UI
IOS
Figma
Sketch

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