At Augmenta, we create software for the construction industry that fully automates the design of buildings - completely transforming the industry and empowering architects, engineers, contractors and developers. We’re a global team, headquartered in Toronto, Canada with a team of brilliant, kind and collaborative scientists, engineers and designers. We are spread across Canada, the US, and Italy, making our workplace a remote-first and distributed environment.

We’ve already built and delivered incredible software, and now we need your help to develop our first product and deliver it to market.

The role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our team at Augmenta. You will own the user experience of our first product. You will work closely with product leadership and with our customers to define requirements and an ideal user experience, and will then work with our engineering team to ensure that experience is delivered as planned. This is truly an all encompassing role, with an opportunity to own our UX, UI and branding, and eventually grow into leading a design team. This role reports to the Chief Product Officer.

What you will do (most of your time)

• Own the user experience for our first product as we grow from beta to a commercial, scalable product.
• Establish design paradigms for future products and adjacent industries.
• Plan and execute research initiatives with current and future customers.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leads to prioritize, plan and build new features, flows or components.
• Design intuitive flows and experiences that simplify complex requirements into user-friendly interfaces.
• Own, curate, and enhance the design system to maintain consistency between surfaces.

Supporting functions (some of your time)

• Support sales and marketing efforts by creating visually appealing graphics for the corporate website, blog posts, or social media to elevate the Augmenta brand.

About you

• 5+ years of professional product design experience, including leading design efforts and shipping large or complex products/features.
• Experience working with complex user or business domains such as (but not limited to) engineering, architecture, finance, etc.
• Proven ability to plan and lead user research and workshops to understand customer sentiment, pain-points and needs.
• High proficiency in Figma, with the ability to visualize and prototype complex solutions in both low and high fidelity.
• Familiarity with design systems, including the use or creation of reusable components.
• Good communication skills, capable of articulating complex design concepts and product requirements to internal and external stakeholders through design briefs, user stories, or technical diagrams.
• Experience leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to inform design strategy, communicate business value, and measure the success of design initiatives.
• Experience mapping out complex user journeys across multiple personas, touchpoints and systems.
• Strong visual design skills with a keen eye for creating beautiful graphics and interfaces.
• Comfortable writing user-facing content such as labels, tooltips, and other UI copy.

Nice to have

These are the things you’re likely to work on, so if you have any experience in the following, great! If you don’t have experience in the following, we still encourage you to apply.

• Experience working with or designing for Autodesk Revit.
• Experience designing experiences for 2D authoring, or 3D modeling (ie. CAD) tools.
• Exposure to the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry.
• Experience utilizing the Ant Design React Library

Our Team and Perks

• We are an open, collaborative, and supportive culture including skill shares, design critiques, and a bi-weekly reading group
• We believe that employees should be owners, which is why we provide stock option grants for full time employees 
• We believe in support the health and wellbeing of our team, which is why we offer a competitive health benefits package
• We believe in balance and taking time to rest and recharge, which is why we offer 4 weeks vacation to all full-time employees plus an extra week off at the end of December. 
• As a remote-first team, we believe in the importance of having the right set up, which is why we offer a home office budget
• Learning and development is critical to us, which is why we have a self-directed learning budget

Our location

Our team is remote-first and fully distributed! We have team members across Canada, the US, Italy, and South Africa. This means that we often collaborate asynchronously via Slack and Video Conferencing.

Here's how to apply

Please submit your resume and a cover letter at https://jobs.lever.co/T6TalentPartners/964d86a4-8871-45cf-a62b-fa3080d1ea25

Our Hiring Process

Talk: You will have a 20-30 minute initial phone call with our recruitment team

Talk: You take part in a 60 minute call & portfolio review with the Director of Product & CPO

Technical Interview: 60-90 minutes

Meet the Team: 60 minutes with a few other team members!

Offer: You receive an offer to join Augmenta!

Accommodations and Accessibility

Inclusion and equity are the cornerstones of how we recruit, hire, and develop talent. We encourage applications from all candidates, especially those who identify as members of the BIPOC community, LGBTQ++ community, women, caregivers, immigrants, and people living with disabilities. We encourage candidates to include any accommodations you require in your application. We look forward to hearing from you.

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