Product Designer, Wave
$95-107k
Financial services for small business owners
Open for applications
Financial services for small business owners
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$95-107k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a future where small business owners can manage their finances fearlessly.
Role
Who you are
- You have 4+ years of professional product design experience designing for mobile and web apps, with strong knowledge of experience and visual design fundamentals
- You are humble, open to receive and give constructive feedback, and collaborate with the whole design team
- You have experience conducting research such as user interviews, usability testing, surveys, etc
- You use Figma as your primary design tool and have experience prototyping
- You are a passionate self-starter, with exceptional communication skills who is dedicated to delivering the highest quality in everything you create
- You thrive in an autonomous and collaborative environment while working cross-functionally to execute on various design projects from product discovery through to delivery
- You can stay on top of current design trends and best practices but also know when to break the mold
- You understand the importance of keeping the user at the heart of your design decisions
- Experience in Fintech is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Product Designer at Wave you will play a crucial role in the product development lifecycle. Working collaboratively with fellow product designers, researchers, content strategists, product managers, engineers, and customer support, you will craft user-centered experiences that help micro business owners thrive by crushing business financial management complexity
- Working in collaboration with cross-functional product teams to navigate user and business needs during the discovery phase and iterate on product design solutions that provide desired value for our customers while focusing on the delivery
- Understanding and engaging in the creation and evolution of Wave's product strategy
- Following and helping improve Wave’s user-centric design principles
- Help us build and maintain our Design Systems libraries while building innovative products
- Working with the Product Manager and the Engineer Lead to prioritize the discovery and delivery backlogs
- Creating and executing a research plan in partnership with the User Research Team, conducting concept testing, usability testing, and user interview sessions
- Gathering insights from research, developing hypotheses, and exploring multiple possibilities before focusing on a valuable and desirable solution, balancing user needs with business goals and strategy
- Mocking up and prototyping solutions following our Design Systems and continually validating, testing, experimenting, and refining your work with users
- Facilitating design reviews with the Product Design Team, Content Strategy, Design Systems, and all stakeholders involved in the initiative, ensuring you follow our principles and guidelines
- Working transparently, constantly sharing your work with fellow designers to gather feedback and improve your solution
Our take
Over 90% of all businesses in North America are zero to five employee companies. These businesses are organising their finances either by paying an expensive accountant, or relying on traditional spreadsheets.
In response, Wave is democratising access to financial services software. While it is not the first to do this, it has taken the flourishing approach of giving away the invoicing and accounting software 100% for free.
The company instead makes money by embedding financial services products within the software. It's these payments and other revenue streams that the startup is now looking to expand to secure more revenue to scale.
While the company has had success so far with its tools, it will need to build a whole suite of products and services in order to compete with the accounting software giants like Xero.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2018
$3.3m
EARLY VC
May 2017
$32m
SERIES D
Total funding: $81.2m
Company benefits
- Work From Where You Work Best: We will always have a welcoming, energizing, and world-class office (in Toronto) with a space for you. Or, if you’re more comfortable working from home, the choice is yours
- We Care About Future You: You will stretch yourself and you will grow at Wave. You will also be supported on this journey with diverse learning experiences, educational allowances, mentorship, and so much more
- We Support the Full You: We make a serious investment in your health & wellness. When we think about benefits we think about body, mind, & soul and we take this stuff very seriously
- We Take Care of the Fundamentals: Fair compensation, all the office perks you’d want, and the various goodies you’d expect from a growing tech company. This is the obvious stuff, but we don’t want you to think we forgot!
Company HQ
Leslieville, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Zahir Khoja
(CEO)Worked at Mastercard as EVP (Global Merchant Solutions and Partnerships) and held several Senior VP positions. Former Vintro Board Member and General Manager (North America) at Afterpay.
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