DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a seasoned Product Designer based in Victoria (preferred) or Vancouver to make AbeBooks a best-in-class destination for discovering used and collectible books.

As the Product Design Lead, you’ll be involved in all aspects of product development from brainstorming to diving into research and working with engineering, and product management. You will utilize a full range of skills including: wire framing, interaction design, prototyping, and visual design to bring these experiences to life. To succeed in this role, you must be an innovative self-starter and a strategic big-picture thinker. You'll champion best practices and processes needed to drive design-led, customer-obsessed solutions.

The ideal candidate will be able to visualize an experience, articulate complex use-cases and drive the vision into design deliverables and artifacts. To succeed in this role, candidates must be able to work independently and deal with a high-level of ambiguity.

Key job responsibilities
- Assume ownership for the design of end-to-end product experiences and features.
- Lead design through all phases of the product development lifecycle from discovery to launch.
- Drive creative process and collaboration with cross-functional partners to propose new ideas and strategies.
- Through research, identify opportunities and create experiences to solve our most challenging customer problems.
- Create design frameworks, diagrams, user flows, wireframes and detailed visual mockups to communicate design strategies, while also diving deep with product and engineering to implement your vision.
- Support your design rationale using quantitative data and site metrics, customer feedback, and usability findings.
- Provide coaching, feedback, and mentorship, with an emphasis on growing junior designers.
- Create and drive adoption of design guidelines, mechanisms, best practices, process, and tools.
- Present to design, tech, business and leadership.

A day in the life
As the Product Design Lead, you’ll work with a cross-functional team based in Victoria and Vancouver, inventing and iterating on end-to-end product experiences. You will have a leader who clears a path for you, and a team of peers to rely on for dialog and support. The UX Design team is passionate about their craft and relentlessly advocates for customers of all abilities. The team is looking for someone who can share our passion for books and create experiences for customers of all abilities.

About the team
AbeBooks, an Amazon company, is a global online marketplace for books and collectibles, with hundreds of millions of new, used, rare and out-of-print books listed for sale by thousands of sellers.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Vancouver, BC, CAN | Victoria, BC, CAN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience with design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax

Product Design Lead, AbeBooks Onsite Experience