Hybrid Product Design Lead – Growth

at OpenTable

• Job title: Product Design Lead – Growth
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: CA$155,000 - CA$185,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Android, iOS
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Product Design Lead at OpenTable focusing on user experiences and mentoring designers. Collaborating with global teams to enhance customer experience and strategic growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead product design on our consumer growth team & work closely with a global team of product managers, product & brand designers, engineers and data scientists, to define our strategy and drive the future of OpenTable’s customer experience!
• The Product Design Lead will build impactful user experiences that delight customers and drive our business forward, evolve, and develop new experiences while balancing the needs of our diners, restaurants, and the business.
• This individual will collaborate with other designers whilst navigating the full range of a product designer’s work—from research to high-fidelity designs. On some days you’ll be sketching ideas and launching experiments as A/B tests, and on others, conducting a customer interview or running a team workshop. Additionally, you’ll be a part of our UX leadership team and manage a small product design team, where you’ll have the opportunity to mentor and grow your fellow designers.

Requirements

• Have a minimum of 7 years of professional experience in product design, with 2+ years in a lead or senior capacity.
• Excel at translating sophisticated workflows into elegant and accessible user experiences
• Comfortably navigate all stages of the design process, from assembling insights with user research, building, and testing prototypes, delivering polished visual design, and working collaboratively with product managers and engineers to bring the UX to life
• Continuously value introspection to improve yourself, your team, and your products
• Proactively seek and incorporate direction from senior team members, and are generally eager to learn and curious about the latest design trends and methodologies
• Have a creative approach and open mind to solving problems, thrive with challenges, and can independently lead a project or product area while being open to feedback and coaching
• Drive collaboration between partner teams and can operate as a phenomenal teammate.
• Actively supply to group conversations, facilitate working sessions, and help shape decisions
• Have developed a large arsenal of tools and know when to use what to move the work forward
• Have a portfolio that demonstrates your problem-solving skills, exceptional visual design skills, and interaction design skills through a breadth of great product design work across web and mobile platforms
• Have experience working on global products in a large-scale, product-led environment, and have deep experience across all platforms including iOS, Android and responsive web
• Have experience successfully managing or mentoring designers
• Have a track record of excellent communication and storytelling skills.

Benefits

• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to Headspace
• Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• Paid parental leave
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth:
• Development Dollars
• Leadership development
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Private health and dental insurance
• Life and Disability insurance