Posted 12 June, 2026
Senior Product Designer (12 Month Contract)
D2L
Kitchener, Toronto
Full Time
Reference: 102_698918_7997754
THE OPPORTUNITY
A Senior Product Designer uses a broad set of inputs, including business context, awareness of technical considerations and constraints, UX research, and UX skills and expertise, to craft experiences that are accessible, useful, and usable.
HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:
- Understand, scale, and apply activities within the product design process at D2L from project inception to delivery
- Design workflows and experiences that are usable, functional, and consistent
- Share expertise in the project domain area and develop expertise in the broader domain, user flow, or product area (product and pedagogy)
- Identify activities and deliverables for large projects of high complexity
- Influence priorities, scope, and roadmap
- Take ownership of project activities and deliverables.
- Foster collaboration with other designers on a large project or part of a broad scope design initiative
- Support other designers on adjacent projects or within a broader initiative
- Contribute to defining a vision for an initiative
- Educate and advocate with the project team on product design activities
- Share strategic deliverables with the design team and outside of project team
- Complete defined inclusive design and accessibility activities to craft accessible experiences
- Participate in design reviews by framing and sharing works in progress throughout the process and by sharing useful and actionable feedback with peers
- Collaborate with UX Research, and support research activities through identifying research needs, providing project context, and aligning on outcomes; assist with note-taking and analysis
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
Competencies
Consistent competencies
- Adaptability + resiliency
- Drive + enthusiasm
- Innovation + creativity
- Openness + curiosity
- Self-awareness + growth mindset
Developing competencies
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Advocacy + inclusivity
- Considering range of end users' and stakeholders'
- Striving for equitable and inclusive outcomes
- Champion users' needs and our inclusive design process
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Collaboration + relationship building
- Networking, connecting with the right people
- Developing empathy, trust, and respect with and for colleagues and stakeholders
- Establishing rapport
- Recognizing + responding to perspectives of others
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Communication
- Negotiating and ensuring alignment across collaborators
- Sharing own POV clearly and concisely
- Asking questions and listening actively
- Conveying difficult, complex, and/or critical material in an easy to understand style and manner
- Anchor design walkthroughs in previous steps and inputs and in meaningful user narratives; Show how earlier inputs and insights inform subsequent steps
- Analysis and decision making
- Balancing rigour and thoroughness with pragmatic constraints
- Engaging in critical thinking and systematic analysis
- Considering multiple inputs and options in making decisions
- Embracing complexity
Skills
- Applying UX and accessibility heuristics, best practices, and patterns
- Crafting design explorations that incorporate business, technical, and UX research inputs
- Conducting system and domain analysis
- Identifying and synthesizing a variety of inputs
