Remote Lead Product Designer at Rare Days

About Us

Uncommon Days is a multi-disciplinary digital product studio obsessive about serving to creators and community-led organizations construct lasting legacies. Since 2020, we’ve designed and constructed merchandise on the intersection of content material, group, and commerce — empowering creators and content-led companies to show their ardour into sustainable platforms.

Our shoppers vary from world-renowned creators like Esther Perel, Colin & Samir, and Sophia Amoruso to world corporations like Airbnb and Notion trying to foster vibrant digital communities. We specialise in membership platforms, creator instruments, and community-driven merchandise — and our edge comes from understanding these audiences in addition to we all know product design. We use that perception to construct high-performing, scalable experiences that assist creators and communities develop with function.

We’re a distributed group, primarily based in Canada, and are open to candidates situated inside 4 hours of PST time zone. Desire shall be given to Canadian candidates.

In regards to the Function

We’re hiring a Lead Product Designer to take possession of technique, execution, and artistic management on our most essential product design work. This function is for somebody who thrives in ambiguity, cares deeply about customers, and desires to information groups towards considerate, high-impact product outcomes.

As Lead Product Designer, you’ll form the imaginative and prescient for digital merchandise utilized by creators, communities, and content-led organizations — translating concepts into usable, scalable, and standout experiences. You’ll lead product discovery, handle day-to-day design progress, and mentor different designers throughout a number of tasks. You’re a transparent communicator, a strategic thinker, and somebody who can lead a room — with or with out the slides.

We’re searching for an skilled product designer working in 0→1 atmosphere. You’ll want sturdy product technique abilities, visible design chops, and the power to maneuver rapidly throughout model, UX, and UI work. You may really feel assured serving to outline, design, and launch new digital merchandise from scratch. This function fits designers with a startup mindset and a love of crafting merchandise from the bottom up.

Core Duties

Product Technique & Discovery

• Accomplice with shoppers and inside stakeholders to outline product imaginative and prescient, priorities, and person targets
• Lead discovery actions resembling workshops, stakeholder interviews, and aggressive audits
• Translate enterprise necessities and person wants into product route and design technique
• Establish and suggest differentiating options that not solely clear up person issues however place the product uniquely inside a aggressive panorama
• Create journey maps, circulate diagrams, and repair blueprints to align the group round expertise structure

Design Management & Execution

• Personal the end-to-end design of digital merchandise — from wireframes to closing UI
• Lead and oversee design methods for particular person merchandise and repeatable platform options
• Collaborate carefully with builders and producers to make sure high-quality implementation
• Current work in any respect levels — from low-fidelity exploration to high-fidelity polish — and information shoppers by means of suggestions and iteration
• Establish alternatives for product enchancment, simplification, or person delight

Workforce & Observe Management

• Mentor mid-level and junior product designers (inside and out of doors of tasks), serving to them develop their abilities and confidence
• Present common suggestions and critique to lift the usual of product design throughout the studio
• Collaborate with management to refine how we work — from tooling and rituals to course of and supply
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, {and professional} improvement because the product group expands

What We’re Wanting For

• 8+ years of product design expertise, ideally in an company, studio, or startup atmosphere
• Demonstrated potential to steer product design engagements from begin to end
• A portfolio that reveals sturdy UX considering, interplay design, and visible execution throughout responsive internet and/or cellular
• Expertise working discovery, facilitating workshops, and turning insights into motion
• Expert in creating and evolving scalable design methods
• Confidence in managing shoppers, presenting technique, and aligning cross-functional groups
• Mastery of Figma and trendy prototyping instruments
• Proficiency in leveraging AI instruments to assist product technique, person analysis, evaluation, and workflow acceleration
• Considerate management type — balances excessive requirements with group assist and readability
• Bonus: Expertise constructing instruments for creators, educators, or content-based platforms

What We Supply

• The chance to form digital merchandise utilized by among the most well-known creators, platforms, and on-line communities
• A management function inside a rising, collaborative product group
• Aggressive compensation (Wage Vary: $130–160k CAD)
• Limitless paid day off for trip, sick days, and private time
• Versatile working hours and a remote-first tradition
• Prolonged well being care advantages for Canadian staff

*As a company headquartered in British Columbia, we’re required to submit the wage vary if the place to be stuffed domestically. This vary could also be greater or decrease for candidates primarily based exterior of BC, and precise pay will take into consideration the candidate’s expertise and competencies.