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Job Title

Senior Product Designer - RBC Ventures

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

As the dedicated designer, you will lead the design for the next evolution of GarbageDay, a mobile app expanding beyond household reminders to a broader offering for homeowners as a “home coach” app. Our vision is enabling homeowners to be smarter about managing their home - their largest asset. We’ll do this by being a trusted app that homeowners regularly depend on to manage the physical and financial aspects of their home.

In this next era, we will be expanding our product offerings and looking for a Senior Product Designer to join us at this pivotal point of our growth journey. This is a unique opportunity to make your mark on the end-to-end design of the product, shape the design strategy and contribute to the visual evolution of our brand.

Learn more at: garbageday.com

What will you do?

Work within a close-knit product development team and lead design on various projects to better the end-to-end experience of our mobile app and other channels

Drive a high-performing product design skillset and the ability to leverage design thinking practices to build UI/ UX flows that balance strategic business goals with the needs of users

Lead a design-driven process from discovery, research, design through to optimization

Understand the capabilities, strengths, and limitations of a technology stack to best align design and development to optimize efficiency, performance, and user value

Apply systems thinking to the creation, maintenance, and growth of our existing design system⁠—ensuring consistency and simplicity within our brand guidelines

Adapt your skill sets across challenges within the product life cycle—from identifying problems, research, ideation, and execution

Collaborate closely with stakeholders to reach clarity and alignment on small to large ideas to better the user experience using informal and formal design thinking methods

Support the team in applying qualitative and quantitative data to inform design decisions within our day-to-day work

What do you need to succeed?

The knack to ask “why?”—you believe in purpose-driven decisions that are strategically informed to drive meaningful solutions to user problems and opportunities

A deep collaborative approach to solving challenges—you understand your gaps and work with others to move the product forward so everybody wins

Support for continuous and iterative improvement—you are comfortable with feedback cycles that are openly communicative and generous within one-on-one and large team settings

Being meticulous and detail-oriented—you advocate for beautiful visual design balanced with solid UX.

An adaptive mindset that is able to thrive in ambiguity

Must-haves:

4+ years of experience working in digital on design teams

A design portfolio that illustrates a range of strategic thinking, visual design, and strong UX

Experience designing Native Apps and Responsive Web platforms

Has built and launched at least 4+ large features or a full product that has gone from discovery through to launch and optimization

Technical proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Principle, or your prototyping tool of choice

Knowledge and/or hands-on experience working in rapid product development and an agile environment

Strong understanding of core design principles related to typography, grid systems, visual hierarchy, colour systems, white space etc.

Undergraduate degree in Design (e.g., interaction, visual communications, product, industrial) or a related field or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves:

A strong understanding of Accessibility and Inclusive Design practices.

Ability to generate high-fidelity illustrations and iconography based on brand guidelines

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits.

A dedicated manager who will support, coach, and work with you to develop an individual career growth plan

Support from other Leadership within Strategic Design for additional coaching opportunities

Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.

An agile, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.

A remote and flexible working environment.

The tools you need to stay connected, work collaboratively, and design efficiently.

Job Summary

RBC Ventures is a new kind of business – one that marries the strength of one of the world’s most trusted and successful financial institutions with a mission to reimagine the role we play in people’s lives – to move RBC ‘beyond banking’. We’re building a world-class organization focused on designing exceptional experiences, exploring new business models and creating exponential value. In 2020, we were named by Fast Company as one of the 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators and we’re looking for team members with the curiosity to explore, the capabilities to build, and capacity to help us deliver our mission.

Address:

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada

City:

CAN-ON-TORONTO

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

Ventures and Corporate Development

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2022-03-21-07:00

Application Deadline:

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

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