Manager of Product Design, Procurify
$130-165k
+ Stock options
Procurement and purchasing software
Job no longer available
Procurement and purchasing software
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$130-165k
+ Stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give all organizations unprecedented visibility and control over their business spend.
Role
Who you are
- Procurify is looking for a Manager, Product Design with a breadth of experience in strategy, research, UI/UX design, usability testing, design system and design operations
- You are a person with a knack for unpacking customer needs, even the unarticulated one, to build products that people want to use
- We’re seeking entrepreneurial people who are willing to challenge the status quo and contribute to larger strategic objectives
- 3 or more years of experience as a design manager or lead designer in a B2B SaaS organization having managed direct reports
- Strong portfolio demonstrating experience in UX design and design leadership, including showcasing your knowledge of native iOS, Android, and web patterns in B2B applications
- Experience developing, executing and maintaining a career matrix is a must
- Experience working in a fast-paced work environment is a must
- Experience leading a fully remote team
- Track record of establishing a strong, collaborative design practice with a healthy feedback culture
- Deep understanding of user research, usability testing, and creating designs that are both user-friendly and business-savvy
- Ability to set a vision and roadmap for design and align with the company’s product and business goals
- Ability to quickly gain a high-level understanding and be able to deep dive into low level details
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate the design team and beyond
- Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, influencing product strategy and ensuring world-class product execution
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to translate complex concepts into simple and intuitive designs
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and working in fast-paced, iterative design cycles
- Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch Adobe Creative Suite, and prototyping tools
- Knowledge of front-end development technologies and their impact on design is a plus
What the job involves
- You will lead a team of talented designers in solving various user problems, by leveraging the double-diamond design playbook and various frameworks such as Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) to create user flows, journey maps, wireframes, prototypes and personas
- You will play a crucial role in shaping the design function and aligning it with the company’s product strategy
- Everyone at Procurify is a team player. A big part of this role involves building relationships internally and externally and advocating for our customers
- Lead and Mentor: Lead and manage a team of product designers, ensuring their professional development. Provide regular feedback, set goals, and foster a culture of customer-centricity and continuous improvements
- Hiring and Scaling: Identify gaps in the team and be involved in recruiting and onboarding new designers if needed. Manage the team’s growth to scale with the product needs
- Resource Allocation: Ensure the right design resources are assigned to highest-priority projects, balancing workflows effectively across the team. Manage design projects, timelines, and resources effectively to meet project deliverables and milestones
- KPI: eNPS, Career progression milestones achieved, Retention rate of design team members
- Define Design Vision: Define and communicate the product design vision, strategy, and goals to the design team and stakeholders, ensuring alignment with both product strategy and business goals
- Champion Design Thinking: Be a champion and showcase the value of UX across the organization through collaboration with product manager, engineers and various stakeholders, advocating for customer empathy and strong user experiences in decision making
- Innovation: Leverage design trends and best practices to drive innovation and develop industry leading products that differentiate us from the competition
- Cohesion: Ensure cohesion of product design across modules and platforms. Understand the end to end holistic customer experience on web and mobile balancing a vision of consistency while leveraging best-in-class for each platform
- KPI: Timely delivery of vision work, number of feature improvements initiated by Design team, user journey improvements measured through user feedback
- Partner with Product and Engineering: Collaborate closely with the Head of Product and engineering leads to ensure alignment between design, product, and technical goals
- Implement Design Processes: Establish and maintain the end-to-end product design process to ensure efficiency and quality output
- Design Ops: Implement design operations (DesignOps) to streamline communication, tooling, and collaboration within the team and with cross-functional partners. Conduct design reviews and provide constructive feedback to designers to improve design quality and ensure consistency
- Design Systems: Oversee the maintenance and evolution of design systems to ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across product lines
- KPI: Reduction in design-to-development cycle time, Design system adoption
- Align Design with Business Metrics: Drive design efforts that contribute directly to business goals, whether that’s improving customer retention, enhancing onboarding, or driving adoption
- Measure Design Impact: Define and track metrics that show the impact of design on user satisfaction, business KPIs, and overall product success
- Customer & User Experience Advocacy: Ensure the design team’s work is aligned with providing an exceptional customer and user experience, potentially influencing the broader customer journey beyond just product interactions
- KPI: CSAT of Key Personas, Measurable contribution to revenue growth or cost-saving initiatives
Our take
Business spending can be complex and intimidating, and companies often need to navigate multiple platforms. Companies need to find a way to make business decisions that are simple, well informed and ideally all on one platform.
Procurify helps businesses by assisting them to understand and align their organizational spending with their core values and business objectives. The company's procurement software offers a structured method that gains and tracks approvals for spending. The platform organises all purchasing and spend documents, and enhance the information that’s already in the accounting system.
The company is the leading spend management, purchasing, and procurement software platform and is used by hundreds of companies. More than just a platform, Procurity is focused on creating a new way of thinking about finance with that it calls Spend Culture, which helps teams make smarter, more purposeful spending decisions every day.
Steph
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Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2023
$50m
SERIES C
Jun 2019
$26m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.4m
Company benefits
- Remote-first: As a remote-first organization, our team can work anywhere within Canada
- Flexible work hours: We don’t have set hours. You have the flexibility to work on the schedule that works for you and your team
- Unlimited RTO: We know there’s more to life than just work, which is why we offer unlimited Responsible Time Off for all of our team members. We encourage our team to take breaks and unplug
- Health benefits: We prioritize our team’s health and wellbeing. We offer a competitive health, vision, and dental package along with an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and a health and wellness spending account
- Stock options: Everyone has a chance to own a part of Procurify with our competitive stock program
- Financial wellbeing: We provide Wealthsimple programs and access to financial advisors to support our team’s diverse life goals
- Training and development: Personal and technical growth are things that we value, so we provide access to Pluralsight, Masterclass, and progressive career matrices
- Tech setup: We make sure our team is equipped with the right tools and tech to set them up for success from Day One
- Community initiatives: We have a strong commitment to giving back to our communities, including regular volunteer days, our Donate Your Day program, and education lunch and learns
- DEI initiatives: We run a diversity, equity, and inclusion roundtable monthly where we host guest speakers and tackle the topics that matter
- Referral program: It’s all about who you know. Our grand prize for our Referral Bonus Program is a bucket list vacation for two!
Company HQ
Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Chad Gaydos
(CEO)Previously a President at Total Expert, COO at Talkdesk, and COO and CRO at Skillsoft. They also spent over 18 years at SAP America as the COO of Regulated Industries.
Amy Wang
(CFO)Previously the CFO of Userful and a VP of Finance at Morgan Stanley. They also spent over 4 years at Solium as a Senior Financial Analyst and Assistant Controller.
Jeffrey Hardy
(CRO)Previously spent over 10 years at SAP in various roles, including Global Director of Strategic Markets & Programs and the Global Head of Strategic Sales.
Aman Mann
(Co-Founder & CSO)Co-Founded Procurify in 2012 and served as the CEO until 2025 when they moved to the role of CSO.
Eugene Dong
(Co-Founder & CTO)Co-Founded Procurify in 2013 and has served as the CTO since.
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