Senior Product Designer- Contract

Senior Product Designer

Reports to: Technical Director (Canada)

Location: Toronto

Role Type: Contractor (6 months)

Level: Senior

INTRODUCTION

Kablamo is a fast-growing cloud digital product development company. Founded in 2017 in Australia, the business has grown quickly over the last several years, including the expansion of the team to Canada in 2021. We are proud to have assembled an amazing list of customers, including some of the best known enterprise and government organisations, in Australia and Canada.

Kablamo is proud to be an Advanced AWS Consulting partner, and we’ve been recognised as a global leader in designing and building cloud-based data and AI/ML solutions. At the 2021 AWS Global Public Sector conference, Kablamo won the award for “Most Innovative AI/ML Solution” for our work building wildfire prediction data platforms in Australia – we were selected from more than 1,800 AWS global partners. In the time since, Kablamo has extended our experience and reputation in designing and building bushfire intelligence platforms, including our own in-house software platform, Firestory.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Product Designer, you will have a strong background in user interaction design, you will have an opportunity to set up and operationalise component libraries and design systems, and you will influence changes in user behaviour through ideas, creativity, and UI design.

You will bring exceptional design thought to Kablamo, delivering projects in partnership with the client, strategic direction, and technology. You will also be expected to guide and mentor other designers on the team, taking them under your wing to drive progression.

Responsibilities:

• Execute innovative and effective digital communications, user experience and interaction designs that stay ahead of industry trends.
• Guide clients and teams through the full UX process — from discovery and definition to high-fidelity design — bringing clarity to ambiguity and aligning user needs with business goals.
• Collaborate across disciplines (Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing) to define, prioritise and deliver impactful solutions that lead to award winning work.
• Effectively communicate design decisions and approach across teams, clients, and senior stakeholders to ensure alignment and shared understanding.
• Lead the creation and evolution of Design Systems by identifying repeatable patterns in products, designing accessible and reusable components, and maintaining scalable Figma libraries.
• Document best practices and usage guidelines to help designers and engineers understand how, why, and when to use specific components or patterns
• Contribute to business development, branding and marketing materials.
• Contribute to asset management, collation and archiving.
• Learn new skills, stay abreast of technical and digital design developments, and successfully apply these to work practices to improve processes and procedures.
• Foster high design standards at Kablamo by mentoring team members and contributing to design critiques, helping shape a strong and inclusive culture within Kablamo Studio.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in product design in a tech or SaaS environment
• A solid grasp of design fundamentals, including prototyping, user research, UI and typography.
• Able to anticipate user needs and advocate for the user while balancing short and long-term product goals
• Mastery of Figma
• Experience designing both web & mobile applications (with a portfolio to showcase your work!)
• Expertise in design systems, including tokens, components, and libraries — with the ability to build, scale, and evolve systems in collaboration with front-end teams.
• Understands and applies accessibility principles across web-based platforms
• Experience in an agile environment, collaborating end-to-end across product lifecycles: working with Product, Engineering, QA and Business Development
• Strong communication and presentation skills – comfortable presenting concepts, communicating design thinking, and creating high-quality visual outputs (prototypes, slides, one-pagers, simple web layouts)
• Prior experience mentoring or managing designers

Bonus Points for:

• Experience working with external clients
• A degree in design, interaction design, visual studies or other design-related fields
• Experience working on enterprise or B2B products
• Basic knowledge of Front End development

Career Progression:

• Lead Designer
• Design Manager

Interview Process:

1. 30-min Recruiter Screen
2. 60-min Technical Interview
3. In-depth Case Study
4. 60-min Final Interview
5. References
6. Offer!

Why Work at Kablamo?

Our Culture

We acknowledge a workplace that is diverse and inclusive, enables for greater innovation and produces benefits including improved performance, improved employee happiness and wellbeing, and superior outcomes for our customers. We attribute our success to all our unique and charismatic Kablamites. Through our fortnightly back to base and our debate Thunderdomes, we enable our Kablamites to provide feedback, share ideas, challenge the status quo and technically challenge each other constructively.

The PERKS!

Kablamo is a proud equal opportunity employer. We make our hiring decisions solely based on your skills and experience, as well as the perspectives and value you can bring to our team. Kablamo believes that diversity is vital to provide the best service to our clients and we are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. Every effort to accommodate candidates for accessibility will be made upon request. Information received related to accommodations will be addressed confidentially.

Kablamo would like to thank all candidates for their interest however only qualified applicants will be shortlisted.