Principal Product Designer

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 Principal Product Designer to join our team at Augmenta. You will own the user experience of our first product (and subsequent products). 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 role reports to the Head of Product.

Please note; this is a big role, as the only Product Designer on the team we are looking for someone who can own UI/UX, Research and a little bit of marketing support (maybe 2 hours per week), and someone ideally to be able to eventually grow into our Design Director and lead a team. Now, while this is a big role, this is not a culture of chaos or 80 hour work weeks, this is a group of mature, detail focused professionals who work smart and then go home to their families!

What you'll own

Product Design

• 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.
• 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.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leads to prioritize, plan and build new features, flows or components.
• Support sales and marketing efforts by creating visually appealing graphics for the corporate website, blog posts, or social media to elevate the Augmenta brand.(10% of the work)

UX Research

• Plan and execute research initiatives with current and future customers.
• Develop and lead partnerships with product, data, and experience leaders to inform strategic product and design decisions
• Consult with multiple company partners to develop mixed methods research programs aligning with primary goals that support the design and development lifecycle from strategic inception to post-release validation
• Collect, analyze, and interpret results

About You

• You have lead a complex product design through an entire lifecycle, from zero to delivery to market.

• High proficiency in Figma, with the ability to visualize and prototype complex solutions in both low and high fidelity.

• 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.

• Have a toolkit of qualitative and quantitative research methods and tools, and the experience to determine the appropriate approach for complex situationsExperience applying human-centered design principles and practicesExtensive experience applying a holistic and logical approach to problem solving

• Strong communication skills, capable of articulating complex design concepts and product requirements to internal and external stakeholders through design briefs, user stories, or technical diagrams.

• Strong organizational skills and documentation processes

• Familiarity with design systems, including the use or creation of reusable components.

• 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.

• Exceptional visual design skills with a keen eye for creating beautiful graphics and interfaces.

• Comfortable with writing user-facing content / 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 on Products or surfaces that utilize AI
• Experience working with or designing for Autodesk Revit
• Experience designing experiences for 3D authoring (ie. CAD) environments
• Exposure to the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry
• Experience utilizing the Ant Design React Library
• Experience with motion graphics or 3D visualization software

About Augmenta

• 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 however all employees must be legally entitled to work in Canada or the US and be located in either of those countries. At this time we do not offer sponsorship.

• Our team as well as the clients we service operate in English.

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 Head of Product & CPO

• Technical Interview: 60-90 minutes

• Culture Interview: 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 reach out to careers@augmenta.ai to request any accommodations to further assist you in the recruitment process. We look forward to hearing from you.