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About the Role
As Lead Product Designer, you will play a leading role on The Globe’s product design team to create a compelling user experience across both the website and iOS/Android apps. Bring your chops building and shipping complex applications or software to play a key role in ensuring that we continually evolve the user experience to keep up with the needs of our customers, technology and industry conditions.
Responsibilities
- Design world-class experiences that allow our audience to achieve their goals using The Globe and Mail’s digital products in a way that feels simple, elegant and understandable
- Establish a design vision for your product program area and ensure that it guides all your action as a designer through research, interface concepts, prototypes, and UI elements to elevate the user experience across all digital products
- Collaborate with and mentor other designers on the team
- Conduct user research and feedback sessions to validate user problems and design solutions with our audience.
- Collaborate with product manager partners, engineers, and stakeholders in Editorial and Business from discovery through to delivery.
- Contribute to our design system to ensure consistency across platforms and products.
- Contribute to our product strategy
- Evangelize the impact of your work and learning across the organization
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing digital products.
- Passion for user experience and design thinking, a strong desire to be innovative within the news, content publishing and media industry.
- Demonstrable conceptual thinking and clarity in oral communication and documentation.
- Orientation to detail and ability to work quickly at all stages of the design cycle to create prototypes and wireframes to visualize your ideas, design specifications, finished front-end designs and design QA.
- Confidence through experience crafting research studies, interviewing customers and reporting results to directors and executives.
- Experience using and contributing to design systems
- Extensive experience using design tools such as AI prototyping combined with Figma and other tools for communication such as Miro, Microsoft Office and Google docs.
- Experience working with data and metrics; proven ability to translate both qualitative and quantitative improvements to the user experience.
- Experience using AI to optimize your workflow and process.
- Experience leading workshops with team members and stakeholders.
- Experience designing experiences that use AI and machine learning.
- Basic front-end coding comprehension such as CSS, HTML, how digital tech works on a high level to facilitate communication with your engineering partners.
- A positive attitude that embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace
- A learning mindset
- Portfolio should include case studies demonstrating problem framing, strategic initiative, design process, success criteria, learnings, leadership, and collaborative maturity.
Skills
- AI prototyping
- Figma
- Miro
- Microsoft Office
- Google docs
- CSS
- HTML
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience designing digital products.
Salary/Compensations
- $107,600 to $129,120 per year
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Hybrid work environment
- Generous vacation
- Flexible work arrangements
- Parental leave top-up
- Competitive health and dental benefits
- Defined Benefit pension plan
- Annual wellness subsidy
- On-site chiropractor and registered massage therapist
- Employee and family assistance program
- Free digital subscription to globeandmail.com
- 40% off other Globe products
- Education assistance for external training courses
About the Company
- The Globe and Mail is a national icon and one of Canada's most recognized media brands.
- We proudly serve as a trusted destination for Canadians seeking the highest caliber of journalism, and we've garnered international acclaim for our data visualization, design, and creative storytelling.
- We are committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity by reflecting all Canadians in both the stories that we tell and the composition of our workforce.
- We are proud partners with organizations like Indigenous Works, Pride at Work, the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion, and we are a signatory of the BlackNorth Initiative.
- Recognizing the importance of work-life balance, we offer flexible work arrangements and support programs.
- We also invest in our employees' growth through training and mentorship opportunities, enabling you to expand your skills and embrace new challenges.
- No matter your position at The Globe, you'll be an integral part of an organization dedicated to making a positive difference in Canada.
- The Globe’s mission is to deliver essential content – news, information, analysis and insights – for aspiring individuals and strong communities.
- The Globe is committed to providing a respectful and inclusive workplace that upholds our values of integrity, collaboration, innovation and accountability.
- As Canada’s most respected media brand, The Globe is dedicated to making a difference to Canada and you can make a difference by working with us.
Equal Opportunity
- The Globe and Mail is committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible work environment, where all employees feel valued, respected and supported.
- We welcome and encourage applications from individuals from all groups, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic status, age, and physical ability.
- As required by the Federal Contractors Program, The Globe also tracks the proportion of staff in the four Employment Equity categories (Women, Aboriginal Peoples, Persons with Disabilities, and Members of Visible Minorities) to ensure we are reflecting the areas in which we work.
- The Globe and Mail offers accommodation for applicants with disabilities as part of its recruitment process. If you are contacted to arrange for an interview, please advise us if you require an accommodation.