Senior Product Designer ⭐
Toronto
Product – Product /
Full-time permanent /
Hybrid
About Achievers
Achievers offers more than just a thank you program. Our employee recognition and rewards software inspires employees to recognize everyone, every day, everywhere. With nearly 4 million global users, we empower employees across 170+ countries. Visit us at achievers.com to learn more and check out our platform in action. Join our team of A-players who bring passion to our purpose and believe that meaningful change creates extraordinary outcomes — together, we’ll inspire recognition everywhere and achieve results that matter.
Our commitment to you:
At Achievers, we hire you for you because we value the unique perspective and individuality that each person brings to our team. We are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace where you belong, and your contributions are celebrated. Together, we achieve more by combining our unique strengths, fostering collaboration, and inspiring each other to reach new heights.
The opportunity:
We are looking for a Designer who is passionate about creating human-centered products that empower meaningful connections in the workplace. You’ll champion an empathetic approach to design that brings thoughtful user experiences to life through strategy, collaboration, and creative solutions to solve complex problems derived from user insights.
🚀 Join a team where your voice matters and your craft is valued. This is more than just a design role—it’s an opportunity to:
- Influence product direction in key domains.
- Collaborate with a supportive team that celebrates shared success.
- Grow your skills through dedicated mentorship from an experienced UX leader and regular UX guild sessions.
- Leverage a robust UI system to deliver thoughtful, scalable experiences.
- Take ownership and become the subject matter expert in your space.
- Drive real value—help solve problems that impact people’s work lives every day.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where innovation is encouraged.
✏️ What you`ll be doing:
- You’ll own projects from start to finish while leading various UX initiatives including running user thinking workshops to define and explore problems and user needs, content mapping, sketching, wireframing, low and high-fidelity prototyping, and leading stakeholder reviews.
- Design for cross-product, cross-platform features, and develop foundational frameworks that enable teammates to be more effective.
- Drive UX research to develop empathy for our users and advocate for their success.
- Deliver valuable and high-quality work without sacrificing speed.
- Collaborate closely with Engineers, Product Managers, UX researchers, Data Scientists, and Front-end Developers to explore, build, and ship designs. You will help other disciplines understand the value design can bring to a project.
- Coach and mentor less-experienced designers by providing feedback to help strengthen your processes and team.
🧭 What we`re looking for:
- 5+ years of hands-on end-to-end UX experience, ideally in a SaaS environment.
- A deep understanding of the end-to-end iterative design process including how to develop and use design research, job stories, journey mapping, wire-framing, prototyping, user testing, and high-fidelity visuals to achieve user-centric design solutions.
- Proficiency with Figma, Miro, user testing frameworks, and other UX design / prototyping tools.
- Proficiency in interaction design for native mobile and responsive web applications.
- A collaborative spirit that enable you share early and iterate quickly.
- Proven track record in working closely with multiple disciplines including Product and Engineering within agile scrum.
- Passion for solving problems while balancing all facets of a user experience (strategy and research, information architecture, interaction design, etc.). You know that good design requires research, multiple iterations, communication, and attention to detail.
- You have a strong portfolio of related projects and believe that your best work is still ahead of you.
- Previous experience with HCM or social media is not required but advantageous.
Why you’ll love working at Achievers:
✨ We are passionate about disruptive technology that’s rooted in science, research and data.
✨ We understand the value of employee success in the workplace and have been recognized in numerous publications for our contributions to HR, for technical excellence, and for our outstanding workplace culture!
✨ We foster an environment of connection, security, and community. You’ll feel at home, without reservation.
✨ We believe in moving quickly, failing fast, and adapting to change.
✨ We enjoy coming to work every day because we believe in our product and love our culture.
✨ We’re committed to achieving excellence in everything we do.
Benefits & Perks for permanent full time employees:
💰 Competitive Pay
👶🏼 Parental Leave Top-up
🩺 Health Benefits and Life Insurance Coverage Upon Your First Day
🙌🏼 RRSP Matching
🏖️ Flexible Vacation
🤝🏽 Employee and Family Assistance Program
👩💻 Full access to the LinkedIn Learning Library
🎓 Internal Mentorship Program
👏🏼 Employee-Led Employee Resource Groups
🇨🇦 A beautiful office space located in Liberty Village, Toronto
✨ Participation in our Points-based Employee Recognition Program
📈 Opportunities for professional development and career growth
Our work environment:
Achievers is a hybrid-first company located at 99 Atlantic Ave in Liberty Village, Toronto. Our hybrid work experience is designed to cultivate an engaging employee experience, where pioneering research intersects with cutting-edge technology. We strongly believe that collocating teams increases the chance to innovate together, foster passive learning, create spontaneous connections, and promote better communication.
Achievers does not offer employment to prospects without first ensuring that qualified candidates speak directly with the hiring manager and a member of our HR team. All qualification will be done face-to-face, whether that is in person or over Zoom. Achievers does not send out offers of employment without meeting candidates and does not offer employment via text. If you are requested for any personal information via text and/or without having met a member of our hiring team in person, please disregard.
Our employees are a diverse and inclusive team of passionate, hardworking individuals. Achievers is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an environment where our employees can do the best work of their lives. We encourage all qualified candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply to join our A-Player family.
Achievers is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any accommodations for your interview, such as assistive technology, wheelchair accessibility, or alternative formats of materials, please let us know. We are happy to make necessary arrangements to support your needs.
Achievers does not use AI to make hiring decisions. When you apply to work with us, a real person reads your application—every time. We believe in thoughtful, human-centred hiring, and we think your experience, personality, and potential can’t be judged by an algorithm. That’s why we keep it personal and take the time to get to know each qualified candidate.
