Orbiseed is looking for a

Design Team Lead

JOB DESCRIPTION

Orbiseed is hiring a full-time Design Team Lead to join our fast-growing and diverse team.

The Orbiseed AI platform uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to extract, process and summarize commercial property data for insurance brokers and carriers to sell more, manage risk better and reduce operating costs. Orbiseed replaces manual document processing and is faster and more accurate than humans.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Orbiseed has 18 employees and is scaling rapidly. The privately held company is a proud member of the Techstars Toronto 2020 cohort, the Google Accelerator 2021 cohort and was named among the Top 25 global companies by the Founders' Institute.

As the Design Team Lead, you’ll report to Orbiseed’s VP of Product and Customer Experience and work collaboratively with the Product, Engineering, and QA teams. Your key responsibility will be to support the product, software development, and QA teams - providing expert design and UX support and solving problems in real-time, assisting the development team to identify and improve UX/UI, as well as to test solutions and new product features.

You will also play a key role in helping all design related projects, systems, processes and initiatives stay “true” to Orbiseed’s design aesthetic, organized, and on track. Our ideal candidate will have a proven track record of incorporating a wide variety of feedback , testing designs, and working with customers to design client-facing interactions. The candidate is open minded, curious, not defensive and has, strong time/project management skills. 

You would be joining a team of dynamic professionals who share a vision of making Orbiseed a global market leader in AI technology development. We care about our people which is why we are looking for individuals who share our passion for excellence in their work while achieving balance in their personal lives. We offer the right individual a limitless opportunity to grow, with exemplary compensation and benefits. The team culture is one of respect and collaboration and we place the customer at the center of everything we do. And while we do serious work, we try not to take ourselves too seriously!

Responsibilities

  • Be a thought partner to product managers to support product definition and focus on the right problems to solve

  • Work closely with product managers, developers, and designers to execute your vision

  • Lead full end-to-end design from ideation, user flows, wireframes, high fidelity to final delivery of design files to engineering and QA

  • Utilize data through strong analytical skills, with the ability to draw meaningful conclusions from data sets

  • Initialize sessions, such as brainstorm sessions or user test sessions, with internal and external stakeholders to collect information to design and improve Orbiseed’s product

  • Create and maintain design documents, such as personas, user storyboards, & customer journey maps

  • Based on requirements, compile information architecture, wireframe and prototypes to convey visual process of the user experience

  • Lead and ensure other designers follow the guidelines you set

 

Qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s degree or above in visual arts or design

  • At least 3+ years of product design experience preferably within a SaaS company

  • An understanding of designing and building for web based applications

  • Strong experience in responsive design

  • An understanding of basic Lean UX and Agile project management principles and the ability to prioritize work based on the greatest business impact

  • Strong experience creating then converting detailed user stories into designs

  • Ability to conduct user interviews and research, as well as design research

  • Proficiency in Figma, JIRA, & Design System management

  • Passion for problem solving, AI and technology

  • Thirst to educate a growing and expanding customer base on AI solutions

  • Highly detailed-oriented and self-motivated

  • Intellectual curiosity and quickness – we are looking for people who consistently want to learn/know more and who approach problems with creativity and ingenuity

  • Proactive team player and strong cross-functional collaborator who is comfortable working with Developers, QA Engineers, and Customer Engagement teams

  • Experience in AI/ML within insurance would be an asset

 

Compensation:

  • Total compensation package: $100,000 to $130,000

  • Comprehensive benefits package

  • Compensation depends upon work experience and skill level

 

Note: Remote work is required during the current Covid-19 environment. The successful candidate should be able to work independently with minimal supervision and excellent communication skills.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to careers@orbiseed.com.