Senior Product Designer, Proposals
Job description
About the role
This role owns the end-to-end design of proposals and related workflows for contractors. The Senior Product Designer balances competing priorities around fidelity, delivery speed, user delight, and engineering bandwidth. Success enables impactful work within a customer-obsessed, cross-functional product squad.
Designers shape how products look and feel. Designers create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished visuals. They test ideas with users and iterate on feedback. Design work spans research, interaction design, and visual design. Collaboration with product and engineering happens daily. Design decisions are judged by outcomes such as usability, conversion, and customer satisfaction. Most design teams keep a living design system to keep products consistent.
Key facts
What you'll do
Guide the end-to-end design of proposals and related workflows for contractors through close collaboration with product managers and engineers.
Translate strategic product goals into design solutions that align with company objectives and user needs.
Gather insights with cross-functional partners and integrate them into coherent design solutions.
Champion user needs in a customer-obsessed organization where decisions reflect customer priorities.
Drive continuous improvement by enhancing processes, tools, and techniques over time.
Requirements
The posting states a bachelor's degree requirement. Bring 4+ years of experience supporting full product life cycles in a similar role.
Break down complex problems to create intuitive, delightful solutions for contractor workflows.
Apply user research methodologies and translate findings into actionable design insights.
Demonstrate strong visual design skills with a keen eye for detail for digital products.
Communicate design concepts clearly and advocate for your perspective with stakeholders.
Collaborate across product, engineering, and customer-facing teams to align on goals and execution.
Comfortably integrate AI tools throughout the design process, from ideation to research synthesis.
Adopt a growth mindset and continually refine methods, processes, and outputs.
Nice to have
Experience designing for construction technology or related software in contractor-focused environments.
A history of working in fast-paced startup settings where speed and adaptability matter.
Experience utilizing and contributing to design systems at scale.
Willingness to lead innovative solutions and advocate for unconventional ideas with stakeholders.
Practical notes
This is an existing vacancy within a remote-friendly policy focused on Canadian candidates. This role reports to the Proposals product squad. Typical interview steps
Design interviews usually include a portfolio review, a design exercise, and a team conversation. Candidates present past work and explain their process and decisions. Some loops include a live design challenge. Communication matters as much as the visual output. Portfolios are strongest when they show the problem, the constraints, and the iteration, not just the final screens. Interviewers also watch how you take feedback.
Good to know
The role involves iterative design in a startup setting that values speed and customer focus.
AI tools are used for drafting, research, and synthesis to accelerate design work.
Strong visual design and communication skills help translate complex problems into clear solutions.
Cross-functional collaboration is central to delivering seamless product experiences.
Questions to ask
Useful questions for the interview: what a typical week looks like, how work is assigned, what tools the team uses, and how feedback works. Asking how the role has changed recently and what the team wishes it had known when joining is also reasonable. Questions about the manager's priorities are especially valued.
Career growth
Design careers grow from junior to senior, staff, and principal levels. Some designers move into design management or design operations. Specializations include UX research, interaction design, and brand design. Cross-functional influence grows with seniority. Senior designers are expected to influence product strategy, not just execute visuals. Building a habit of user research strengthens any design career.