Staff Product Designer

Working at Absorb is a transformative experience marked by continuous learning, innovation, and the thrill of impacting over 23.5 million users. We have a diverse range of products and technology stacks that present unique challenges, a culture that embraces camaraderie and work-life balance, and growth opportunities that encourage personal development. This, coupled with the company's genuine care for its employees and the flexibility to work remotely, makes Absorb more than just a workplace - it's a vibrant ecosystem that nurtures your career as a UX Designer.

As a Staff Product Designer at Absorb Software, you will lead the design strategy for large-scale initiatives, driving projects from concept to launch. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you’ll create and evolve design systems, ensuring a seamless user experience across our product ecosystem. You’ll own the full design process—user research, ideation, prototyping, and implementation—while mentoring and elevating the design team. Working closely with product, engineering, and leadership, you’ll influence product evolution and uphold the highest standards of design quality, keeping Absorb at the forefront of the eLearning industry.

What you’ll do:

1. Define and execute the design work for large-scale initiatives, ensuring alignment with product goals, setting a clear design vision, collaborating across multiple crafts, and scaling design impact across the entire product ecosystem.
2. Own the design process from concept to launch, including user research, problem definition, ideation, prototyping, user testing, and implementation support.
3. Develop and evolve design deliverables and tooling, including component libraries, iconography, color schemes, and typography selection for multiple product surfaces.
4. Contribute to work planning and product evolution in collaboration with product management, engineering teams, and senior stakeholders.
5. Actively advance Product Design discipline at Absorb through exploration and adoption of new design trends, tools, and techniques.
6. Show up as an experienced design leader and role model that sets a high design quality bar, inspires, fosters growth, mentors, and levels up the team.
7. Work in close collaboration with the design manager to grow and evolve the Product Design team and practice at Absorb.

What you’ll bring:

1. 8+ years of progressively more senior experience as an Individual Contributor in Design with a strong portfolio showcasing the quality of your work.
2. 2+ years of building and maintaining design systems.
3. Ability to lead complex design initiatives, make strategic design decisions, and influence the design direction across multiple teams or products.
4. Superior mastery in all aspects of product design including UX/UI and visual design, color theory, information architecture, interaction design, typography, data visualization, content design, and accessibility. Expert knowledge of Figma.
5. Deep experience in building and maintaining design systems and product guidelines.
6. Advanced skills in working, collaborating, leading, and building amazing products as part of a remote, distributed team.
7. Applied knowledge of research strategies and methods that facilitate each step of the product development in the design thinking process.
8. Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain design rationale, present ideas clearly, and advocate for user-centered solutions.
9. Proven ability to engage with senior leadership, product, and engineering teams, gaining buy-in for design decisions.
10. Strong craft leadership skills with experience in mentoring and leveling up the craft.

Nice to haves:

1. Experience in the eLearning industry or designing educational technology products.
2. Illustration or marketing design experience.

What we offer:

1. Fully remote-first work with flexible work arrangements.
2. Comprehensive Health and Wellness Benefits including retirement savings programs, eligibility for two different bonus plans, generous time off, comprehensive medical and dental benefits based on your country of location.
3. New Hire Equipment Allowance and monthly Flex Allowance to support your success.
4. Endless opportunity for career growth and internal mobility.
5. Employee driven DE&I programs.
6. Games room, meditation & yoga space, state of the art workplace for Absorbers in our Calgary office.

Who are we?

Absorb Software is a remote-first company that provides online training solutions to leading organizations around the world. Absorb is a cloud-based learning management system (LMS) engineered to inspire learning and fuel business productivity. Our online learning platform combines forward-thinking technology built to scale as our customer’s organizations grow. We empower learners to enrich their lives, workplaces, and communities.

Our values are simple:

1. We achieve exceptional results by genuinely caring about each other and the work we do.
2. We’re united, and we grow through our commitment to elevating continual learning!

Absorb is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment for all our people. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. In the event a current Absorb employee would like to apply for this role, they will inform their supervisor prior to submitting their application. Successful candidates for this position will be subject to pre-employment background screening, including a criminal record check and must be able to show proof of legal eligibility to work in the country they have applied to without sponsorship.

Should you require any accommodation during the recruitment process, please indicate this on your application and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any questions, please contact us at accessiblecareers@absorblms.com.