Product Designer, Growth
Float Financial Solutions Inc., Canada
Job Description
About Float
Float is one of Canada’s fastest growing companies, serving Canadian businesses with our innovative smart corporate card and spend management solution. Float’s team is customer-obsessed, passionate, vibrant, and entrepreneurial, and includes the former GM of Uber Canada, plus talented team members with experience at Shopify, Ritual, and many other incredible tech companies!
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, advice, and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision making decentralized so that all team members contribute.
Our Product
[YouTube] Float's Product
Float empowers companies and teams with smart financial products, helping them achieve their most ambitious goals. We’re disrupting the multi-trillion dollar global B2B finance industry, and backed by some of the best venture capital investors in the world, including Tiger Global, Golden Ventures, and Susa Ventures. If you’re interested in making finance more accessible and saving companies and their teams time and money, join the team, and help us achieve our vision!
About the Growth Product Designer role
We’re looking for a creative, innovative, and customer-obsessed experienced Product Designer to join Float and be part of a team that’s building the best corporate card and spend management platform in Canada.
Float’s a product-led business, and as a Product Designer embedded in the Product team, you will work with other Designers, our customers, and other employees that use Float to help build intuitive and innovative interfaces and workflows.
As the Growth Product Designer at Float:
- You’ll work closely with the design team, product managers, and engineers to see a product from concept through implementation and beyond.
- You’ll utilize research and work closely with our customers, listening to them and translating their needs into compelling user experiences and designs.
- You’ll own the look, feel, and experience of our user-facing application, design flows, and experiences, ensuring they’re simple and elegant.
- You’ll take broad, conceptual ideas and transform them into useful and valuable experiences for our customers.
- You’ll learn, grow, and be celebrated for your hard work and great attitude.
In this role, you’ll be responsible for building a seamless onboarding experience, and creating and capturing value by accelerating the adoption and usage of our existing products.
What your week-to-week looks like:
- Work with our customers to gain a deep understanding of their experiences and needs, identifying and filling product gaps while generating new ideas that scale, grow market share, empower our customers, and drive growth.
- Develop and deliver high-level and detailed storyboards, concept diagrams, user interface sketches, mock-ups, prototypes, and detailed design specifications to communicate design and interaction.
- Iterate with feedback and key learnings, collaborating with team members to incorporate best practices.
- Ruthlessly prioritize and scope activities based on business and customer impact: features that move the needle.
- Continuously analyze customer feedback and find ways to measure product outcomes.
- Collaborate with the engineering team to ensure the design aligns with the technology.
- Manage key vendor relationships supporting Float’s product.
- Communicate the ‘why’ behind the product roadmap, prioritization, and sequencing.
- Work closely with our product, engineering, and ops teams to remove roadblocks and deliver with rapid time-to-market and optimal resources. Speed and agility are essential.
- Deliver successful product launches in partnership with marketing, sales, and other key stakeholders.
- Create and implement user flows and user interface specifications in collaboration with product management and engineering teams.
- Create product specs, think through customer challenges, and technical edge cases.
- Break down complex problems into steps that drive rapid product development.
Requirements
You’ll be great in this role if:
- You’ve got the experience. To be successful in this role, we’re looking for 5+ years of Product Design experience, ideally with a bachelor’s degree (though that’s not required). You’re scrappy and enjoy finding creative ways to work through obstacles. You’ve taken ownership of the product experience before and have outstanding project management skills.
- You know great design