Product Designer 2 - 8 Month Contract

Join our team of high-performing designers who work in an exciting space to transform the way the world learns.  You will build deep empathy and understanding for users and buyers, use a broad set of inputs, including business context, awareness of technical considerations and constraints, to craft delightful, useful, and usable experiences, and contribute to a high-quality user-centered experience.

In collaboration with cross-functional partners, you will define, implement, and measure your designs to accomplish key business outcomes.

Reporting to the product design leader, you will join a strong and collaborative centralized Product Design team with members who focus across different areas at D2L.

WHAT WE PROVIDE

We think we offer something unique:

• A supportive, talented, and collaborative community of product designers and user experience researchers; we learn from each other to develop the skills to do great work
• A maturing practice with growing tools and design systems; we all get to inform the growth of our design culture and practice
• Opportunities to engage with prospects, buyers, and end users to gain early market traction for a new product and business line; you will have an impact on the business.
• Strong collaboration with Product Management and Engineering to understand business and user problems, define and implement a solution, and measure its success; you will have opportunities to practice across all aspects of design.
• A chance to do meaningful work; we contribute to life-long learning to change the way the world learns

 WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• The ability to craft beautiful designs and delightful, useful, and usable experiences; you have strengths in visual, interaction, and motion design
• Demonstrated experience developing style guides and contributing to design systems
• An understanding of the broader UX practice and a story about your process; you can illustrate how you work with narrative, artifacts, successes, and challenges
• Awareness that good design is both about what you do and how you do it; you demonstrate that you care about both
• Curiosity combined with a desire to learn and grow; you're a life-long learner who is willing to explore new tools and approaches
• Openness, objectivity, and self-awareness; you are collaborative and seek and share feedback and ideas with your peers
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills; you frame, structure, and present work clearly and confidently, including to product stakeholders and senior leaders
• A sense of empathy and a user focus; you apply empathy both to your design work and with your project peers

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• With support, understand and apply activities within the product design process at D2L from project inception to delivery
• Design workflows and experiences that are usable, functional, and consistent
• Complete defined inclusive design and accessibility activities to craft accessible experiences
• Develop expertise in the project domain and an understanding of the broader domain, user flow, or product area (product and pedagogy)
• Collaborate with other contributors in a broad scope design initiative or related product areas. You take ownership of project activities and deliverables. 
• You educate and advocate with the project team on product design activities and contribute to defining a vision
• Participate in design reviews by framing and sharing works in progress throughout the process and by sharing useful and actionable feedback with peers
• Collaborate with UX Research, and support research activities through identifying research needs, providing project context, and aligning on outcomes; assist with note-taking and analysis

D2L Leadership Competencies  

• Leads by Example with personal and professional integrity, high accountability and say/do ratio   
• Boundaryless collaboration and influence skills both within team, peer group and broader organization. Effective communicator with a proven track record of impact beyond the immediate team and for the business.  
• Delivers Awesome Outcomes: Strategic mindset and business acumen, with strong prioritization skills and a focus on organizational outcomes vs. team tasks. Effective problem solver, able to achieve results individually and through others, in fast paced, deadline-driven environments.  
• Talent Magnet: Talent-focused leader, with demonstrated ability to coach, build and lead a high performing, diverse team.   
• Better, Smarter, Faster: An agile learner, with a growth mindset, attention to detail and organizational skills. An operationally minded leader, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.   
• Wins Hearts and Minds: An effective communicator, with the ability to connect the why and the what. A change agent, with proven delegation, motivation, and team building skills.

The ideal candidate will be co-located to D2L's Kitchener or Toronto locations, and/or work remotely within the EST time zone.