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About the Role
As a Senior Product Designer at Affinity, you will fundamentally change how people leverage relationships for business. You will work on complex, data-rich SaaS products, making them intuitive, useful, and delightful. You will be a generalist excited about the entire product design lifecycle, owning research from discovery to usability testing, and translating insights into elegant, high-fidelity user experiences. You will design innovative experiences for AI-augmented product surfaces and use AI and modern design tools, including front-end code, to prototype ideas.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design process for major product areas from initial strategy and concept through to high-fidelity execution and developer handoff.
- Proactively scope, conduct, and synthesize user research and testing, acting as the champion for customer insights and turning user feedback into tangible product decisions.
- Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineers in a fast-paced, agile environment to ship high-quality experiences and ensure implementation quality in production.
- Create intuitive interfaces that turn complex, AI-driven data and relationship intelligence into clear, actionable, and trustworthy insights for our customers.
- Proactively contribute ideas that influence the strategy and direction of the product areas you own.
- Help build a highly collaborative design community by participating in design critiques and sharing feedback openly and constructively.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional product design experience shipping high-quality, impactful product experiences.
- A self-sufficient researcher with proven experience conducting user interviews, usability testing, and synthesis, turning those insights into actionable takeaways.
- Experience designing for AI-native or AI-augmented products.
- A strong visual eye, high attention to detail, and exceptional level of craft.
- A builder’s mindset and are comfortable working at the intersection of design and code, whether that be through front-end development or vibe-coding with AI tools.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate design rationale clearly, tell compelling product stories, and navigate stakeholder feedback with empathy.
- Ability to work with ambiguity and have a track record of cutting through complexity to deliver value quickly.
- Comfortable embracing ambiguity and able to cut through it and deliver incremental value to our customers each sprint.
- Candid, transparent, and speak your mind while simultaneously caring personally with each person you interact with.
- Make data-driven decisions and make the best decision for the moment based on the information available.
Skills
- Product design
- User research
- Usability testing
- Customer interviews
- Synthesis
- High-fidelity user experiences
- AI-augmented product design
- Front-end code
- Vibe-coding
- Prototyping
- Agile environment
- Communication
- Design critiques
Location
- Toronto / Greater Toronto Area
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $134,400 to $168,000 CAD
Benefits
- Extended health benefit premiums covered for employee and dependents
- Flexible personal & sick days
- RRSP plan
- Annual education budget
- Comprehensive L&D program
- Monthly reimbursement for home internet, meals, and wellness memberships/equipment
- Virtual team-building activities and socials
About the Company
- Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform that helps dealmakers find, manage, and close more deals by leveraging the power of their network.
- We use technology to amplify human relationships by providing data and insights that enable people to connect and take action with confidence.
- With more than 3,000 customers worldwide and backed by some of Silicon Valley's best firms, Affinity has raised $120M to empower dealmakers to find, manage, and close more deals.
- Our Relationship Intelligence platform uses the wealth of data exhaust from trillions of interactions between Investment Bankers, Venture Capitalists, Consultants, and other strategic dealmakers to deliver automated relationship insights that drive over 450,000 deals every month.
- Proud recipients of Inc. and Fortune Best Workplaces awards, and Great Places to Work certified for the last 5 years running.
- Our mission is to make it possible for anyone to cultivate and fully harness their network to succeed.
Equal Opportunity
- At Affinity, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.
- We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of our recruitment process to help screen and evaluate candidate applications. While AI assists our hiring team in managing applications efficiently, it never replaces decisions made by real people. We are committed to fair and transparent hiring practices, and our AI tools are regularly monitored to ensure they support - not replace - human judgment.