Intermediate / Senior Product Designer, KOHO Financial
CA$120-145k
+ Equity
Financial management application
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201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$120-145k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To allow Canadians to be able to travel more, retire sooner, and live more balanced lives
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate has a passion for understanding our users and is an enthusiastic team player who enjoys working closely with other designers, engineers, data analysts, and product managers to build the best banking experience for Canadians
- Whether you're a Senior or Intermediate Product Designer, we’re looking for great talent, a positive attitude, and a passion for helping people through smarter designs
- Experienced mobile UI/UX practitioner with at least 5 years of experience working in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communicator — able to present designs to different audiences and clearly explain the rationale behind each design decision
- Proficient in user-centric design principles and processes including web and mobile design standards and best practices
- Good eye for UI/UX design and mastery of the methodology behind creating amazing and unique user workflows
- An excellent collaborator who loves to work with others to understand and solve our user’s problems
- Self-directed, thriving on ambiguity, using your creativity and scrappiness to figure things out
- A creative problem solver who is highly resourceful in getting things done
- Highly proficient in Figma, with experience using the latest design software (Adobe CC, etc.)
- Proficient in leveraging GenAI to augment your design processes
- Prepared with a strong portfolio demonstrating your design abilities and relevant product-building experiences
- Well-versed in consumer social/financial/B2C product design
What the job involves
- At KOHO, product design is key to the brand identity and product differentiation
- As a Product Designer, you will be involved in every aspect of the product development process
- You will use your skills in UI and UX design, product design, interaction design, visual/audio/motion design, and prototyping to create product experiences that wow and deliver measurable value
- Work with Product Managers to develop and refine product strategy and vision (not just ‘how it works, looks’ but ‘why it should be built’)
- Prepare wireframes, user flows, process flows, sitemaps, and other artifacts to effectively communicate interactions and design ideas
- Work within an iterative design process: rapid prototyping, initiating user experience research, incorporating feedback, launching quickly, and testing hypotheses in an agile environment
- Work as a part of an end-to-end product development team: collaborating early with and providing design direction to engineers, understanding technical requirements of what it takes to implement your designs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence all aspects of the product from copywriting to lifecycle marketing
- Evangelize our design-centric product development process and act as a design mentor to other designers and cross-functional partners
Our take
In the wake of the gradual shift from physical to virtual interactions, the global internet-only banking industry has also seen tremendous growth in recent years. KOHO financial is part of this growing trend, they are a financial solution and payment platform built to help Canadians with managing their finances.
Apart from typical savings and budgeting common with money-management apps, KOHO customers enjoy a suite of financial services that help to build better credit, spending habits and insurance. As part of this, its product appeals especially to the majority of the paycheck-to-paycheck demographic.
KOHO's impressive growth and suite of products also appeal to investors who have backed it with one of the highest levels of funding in the Canadian fintech sector. However, this hasn't completely insulated it from the turbulence in the global economy, which led to KOHO restructuring in early 2023. With 2024 debt funding now secured, it is now focused on growth, aiming to further extend its lead in the Canadian market and achieve a Schedule 1 bank licence.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2024
$27.8m
LATE VC
Dec 2023
$59.7m
SERIES D
Total funding: $296.2m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- Semi-annual merit increases
- Holiday bonus
- Work from anywhere
- Generous PTO
- Health & Lifestyle spending accounts
- $1000 remote office setup budget
- $5000 referral bonus
- Free KOHO Premium account
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- In-house coaching program
- $2000 annual training allowance
- Approachable leadership
- Bias towards action
Company values
- Practice & foster candor: We commit to respectfully speaking up and embrace positive conflict. Our minds? Open. Our egos? Left at the door.
- Own it: If we see a problem, we become a part of the solution. That way, we build the company we want to work for, and a product we're proud to use.
- Have a growth mindset: At KOHO, we own our growth, continuously improving through collaboration and curiosity. After all, stagnation is the enemy of progress
- Think like a customer: We lead with humanity and never lose sight of the real people our work impacts
- Build community: We actively contribute to KOHO culture — it belongs to all of us. We have a shared responsibility to make KOHO a safe and inclusive place for all
Company HQ
Liberty Village, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Daniel Eberhard
(CEO)Previously a co-founder and Vice President at Kineticor Renewables before their acquisition.
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