Senior Lead Product Designer – Advertising
Company | Wayfair |
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Location | Toronto, ON, Canada |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 8+ years of product design experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience designing for advertising/ad-tech (supply, demand, and/or publisher-based)
- Exceptional interpersonal, collaborative, and communication skills.
- Strong understanding of design processes; knowledge of what is possible and what will be hard to achieve and/or implement in a digital environment.
- Expertise in producing design deliverables, including detailed user flows/task flows, user journeys, page flows, taxonomies/folksonomies, wireframes, annotations, and prototypes that represent interaction recommendations, etc..
- Strong skills in modern design tools like Figma.
- Working knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS—enough to understand feasibility of execution.
- The ability to think at systems level and design solutions that are scalable and extensible beyond the immediate use.
- Experience presenting and defending designs to senior and executive leadership.
- Portfolio and/or case studies of shipped work that demonstrates an ability to effectively design for highly technical experiences, unfailing advocacy for the user, data-driven approach, and strategic thinking.
Responsibilities
- Act as both strategist and product practitioner.
- Craft thoughtful and effective user experiences that balance business goals with customer needs.
- Collaborate directly with product managers, engineers, designers, business stakeholders, and senior leadership through all stages of the product-development lifecycle.
- Triangulate data from multiple inputs to inform design and product strategy.
- Represent the voice of our customers (suppliers and shoppers) in product definition and strategy meetings.
- Contribute to the development of team members through design review, modeled behavior, dedicated mentorship, or less formal coaching and advice.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing for e-commerce
- Strong user research skills are highly valued.
- Leadership Experience