Senior Product Designer

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to help shape the next generation of Athennian’s products and experiences. Reporting to the Manager of Product & Design, you’ll work at the intersection of product strategy, customer needs, emerging technology, and exceptional design. You’ll take complex B2B workflows and turn them into intuitive, modern experiences—while helping us push beyond traditional enterprise software patterns, particularly as we introduce new AI-powered capabilities.

This is a highly collaborative and influential role. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, customers, and the executive team to lead discovery, explore new concepts, challenge assumptions, and translate product direction into experiences that differentiate Athennian in the market.

We’re looking for someone who is curious, creative, decisive, and comfortable moving quickly. You should have strong design principles and opinions, while being equally comfortable testing those ideas, incorporating feedback, and evolving your thinking as we learn.

What you'll do

• 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.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Product Design, UX/UI, or similar roles, with a strong portfolio demonstrating ownership of complex, high-quality product experiences.
• Strong Product & Design Thinking: Strong design principles and product judgment, with the ability to simplify complex problems, challenge assumptions, and connect design decisions to customer and business outcomes.
• B2B SaaS & AI Experience: Experience designing complex B2B or enterprise software, with strong curiosity and ideally hands-on experience designing AI-powered features, workflows, or interactions.
• Modern Product Design, Research & AI Fluency: 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.
• Discovery & Execution: Proven ability to lead customer discovery and validation, rapidly translate insights into prototypes and designs, and move effectively from ambiguity through delivery.
• Collaboration & Influence: 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.
• Startup Experience: Experience thriving in a fast-paced, outcomes-driven startup environment where initiative, collaboration, and a bias for action are key to driving success.

Location

This role is fully remote within Canada or the US. Wherever you're based, you'll be part of a connected, collaborative, high-performing team that values flexibility and trust. 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!

Our Culture

We thrive in a fast-paced startup environment where every team member plays a critical role in our success. We value ambitious, results-driven people who spot opportunities, take initiative and go the extra mile. Collaboration fuels our growth as we take on new challenges, learn constantly and move quickly. If you're a go-getter who thrives on impact, you'll fit right in. Our values are:

• Outcome Driven: We focus on setting ambitious goals and achieving measurable results, valuing success by the outcomes we deliver.
• Wide Responsibility: Our team is empowered to shape success, taking ownership from problem identification to solution implementation.
• Learning Mindset: We embrace curiosity, rejecting the status quo and encouraging continuous learning and agility.
• Strategic Speed: We make fast, effective decisions and embrace a bias for action to seize opportunities quickly.

Benefits at Athennian

We keep things simple and invest in the perks that matter — your wellbeing, growth and flexibility.

• Compensation: Competitive salary, equity and performance-based bonus structure.
• Work-Life Balance: A minimum of 3 weeks vacation, 5 sick days and 6 personal/flex days, plus a company-wide winter holiday shutdown.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, vision, long-term disability and a Health Spending Account (HSA).
• Family Support: Flexible parental leave, including top-ups.
• Remote Setup: A work-from-home allowance to get you set up for success.