CoLab

Build better hardware products, faster.

Senior Product Designer

$100K - $110K CAD
Location
St. John's, NL, CA / Remote (CA)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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About the role

At CoLab, we help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner. Our product, CoLab, is the world’s first Design Engagement System (DES) - a category defining product that Engineering teams use to engage in meaningful, productive design conversations, catch preventable mistakes, and get to market faster. We are currently focused on the industrial equipment, consumer products, and automotive industries, and our customers are among the largest engineering organizations in the world such as Ford, Johnson Controls, Komatsu, and Polaris.

As a Senior Product Designer on our team, you will play a key role in crafting and championing user focused UI and UX design solutions. Working with cross functional partners, you will advocate for the end user experience and contribute to many creative outputs. As a Senior member of the team, you will help guide and mentor other members of the design org at CoLab. This role may be a good fit for you if you are passionate about user experience and want to have a strong impact on product quality, and your peers.

What you’ll do:

  • Work with with cross-functional teams to research complex problems, brainstorm solutions, and then translate those solutions into simple, elegant experiences
  • Work with the product team to identify opportunities and define requirements, and not just translate them to designs
  • Partner closely with the development team to understand technology capabilities, and deliver strong outcomes collaboratively
  • Build wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs to tackle difficult UI/UX challenges
  • Obsess over the details of every interaction and motion, and not just the visual design
  • Partner closely with our sales and success teams to better understand the needs and wants of our users

What you’ll need:

  • 5+ years of Product Design experience implementing user experience across devices, platforms, and interaction paradigms
  • Master of the Figma-verse - developing design systems, variants, smart plugins, components etc
  • Strong attention to detail with a passion for pixel-perfection
  • Strong knowledge of how complex designs get implemented; ability to work closely with technical members of product development and ui/design system teams
  • A compelling portfolio of work that demonstrates high-quality design work that also tells a story that you are a deep design thinker

The extra details:

  • Compensation: This is a full-time, permanent position with a competitive compensation package that includes a stock options package.
  • Benefits: This role offers an extended health and benefits package that includes unlimited paid vacation and RRSP matching.
  • Remote/Hybrid Work: Our main office location is in St. John’s, NL where we offer hybrid and remote opportunities. This role has the flexibility to work from anywhere within Canada.

About CoLab

Today’s engineering teams are designing products that are more complex than ever before. Mechanical, electrical, and software systems must work together seamlessly. Meanwhile, products are manufactured in different facilities, with components sourced from all over the world. This means more people, more decisions, and more complexity. But many of today’s market leaders still design products the same way they did 20 years ago.

Emerging technology companies are developing products faster with higher margins than their much larger competitors. They’re winning market-share, getting higher valuations and attracting the best talent. The gap between these innovation leaders and the rest of the pack is widening.

But becoming an innovation leader isn’t just about investing in technology. True innovation leaders invest in people, process, and technology. They’re able to move fast and respond to market changes, because their product development processes are frictionless, with minimal admin work. That means it’s easy and fun for the people on their team to collaborate, internally and externally.

CoLab is building the World’s first Design Engagement System. A DES makes tasks that used to be admin-heavy and error prone (like sharing a CAD file, or getting DFM feedback from a supplier) elegantly simple. It bolts onto your PLM and automates the admin, so you can focus on design, keep your people engaged and build better products, faster.

CoLab is trusted by Fortune 500 organizations like Komatsu, Polaris, Johnson Controls, Hyundai Mobis, Schneider Electric and Lockheed Martin.

CoLab
Founded:2017
Team Size:81
Location:St. John's, Canada
Founders
Jeremy Andrews
Jeremy Andrews
Founder
Adam Keating
Adam Keating
Founder