Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Athennian delivers Governance Ops software that aligns legal, finance, tax, and fund teams through a secure, integrated source of truth for entity and ownership data. The Senior Product Designer will lead product discovery, create differentiated B2B experiences, shape AI-powered interactions, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, customers, and executives to deliver high-quality designs.
Responsibilities
- Lead Product Discovery: Partner with Product Managers to lead discovery, understand customer problems, test assumptions, and translate insights into clear product direction
- Create Differentiated Experiences: Bring a strong design perspective and push beyond traditional enterprise UX to create intuitive, modern experiences that differentiate Athennian in the market
- Shape AI Experiences: Explore emerging AI interaction patterns and translate new capabilities into experiences that are useful, intuitive, and trustworthy
- Move Quickly from Concept to Execution: Rapidly turn ideas into workflows, prototypes, and high-quality designs that help teams learn, make decisions, and move into development
- Champion the User: Build a deep understanding of our customers and balance their needs with product strategy, business objectives, and technical considerations
- Collaborate & Influence: Work closely with Product, Engineering, customers, and executive leadership to challenge assumptions, incorporate feedback, and maintain alignment with broader product direction
- Drive Design Quality: Set a high bar for interaction and visual design, evolve our design systems and patterns, and partner with Engineering to ensure quality carries through to the final product
Skills
- 5+ years in Product Design, UX/UI, or similar roles, with a strong portfolio demonstrating ownership of complex, high-quality product experiences
- Strong design principles and product judgment, with the ability to simplify complex problems, challenge assumptions, and connect design decisions to customer and business outcomes
- Experience designing complex B2B or enterprise software, with strong curiosity and ideally hands-on experience designing AI-powered features, workflows, or interactions
- Advanced proficiency with Figma and FigJam, strong experience using Pendo and modern research methods to uncover and validate user needs, and hands-on fluency with AI tools such as Claude and Cursor to rapidly explore, prototype, test, and deliver sophisticated SaaS and AI-enabled experiences
- Proven ability to lead customer discovery and validation, rapidly translate insights into prototypes and designs, and move effectively from ambiguity through delivery
- A highly collaborative communicator who can bring a strong point of view, work effectively with Product and Engineering, and confidently incorporate feedback from customers and executive leadership
- Experience thriving in a fast-paced, outcomes-driven startup environment where initiative, collaboration, and a bias for action are key to driving success
- This role is fully remote within Canada or the US
- To apply, you'll need to be eligible to live and work in one of those two countries — we can't wait to hear from you!
- Experience designing complex B2B or enterprise software, with strong curiosity and ideally hands-on experience designing AI-powered features, workflows, or interactions
Benefits
- Equity and performance-based bonus structure
- A minimum of 3 weeks vacation, 5 sick days and 6 personal/flex days, plus a company-wide winter holiday shutdown
- Health, dental, vision, long-term disability and a Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Flexible parental leave, including top-ups
- A work-from-home allowance
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