Senior Product Designer
Senior Product Designer
📍 Remote-first (Canada) │ Collaboration Hub – Kitchener/Waterloo, ON
🧑💼 Reports to: Director, Product Design
Salary range: $100,000 – $112,000 (CAD)
Final compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and other relevant qualifications.
🏢 About Encircle
Encircle is leading the $1.6 trillion property insurance industry out of the dark ages of pen-and-paper processes, into the digital age of transparency and empowerment. Our easy-to-use software platform enables thousands of restoration contractors and insurance professionals around the world to process claims faster.
We’re a remote-first company with a collaboration hub in downtown Kitchener—and we’re growing.
📌 About the Role
We’re growing our design team and looking for an experienced designer who can own a complex product area end-to-end — from problem discovery through shipped, working software.
You’ll join a team of 4 designers working across five product squads — Platform, Field, Mitigation, Office, and Contents — covering the full workflow of a restoration job from first notice of loss to complete restoration. This is a player-coach team: everyone does hands-on design work. Craft, systems thinking, and mentorship are shared responsibilities.
🔧 What You’ll Be Doing
- Own design for a product area across its full lifecycle: research, ideation, high-fidelity design, spec, and build QA. We don’t consider a project done when design ships to engineering — you’re involved through release.
- Design across our full stack: Web, Mobile, and Tablet (iOS & Android).
- Work daily alongside Product and Engineering as a trifecta — sharing often, and expecting the same in return.
- Contribute to and enforce our design system across Shared, Web, and Mobile components — using existing or enhancing patterns before building new ones, and flagging drift when you see it.
- Use AI tools (Claude, Figma Make) as part of your workflow — for research synthesis, data answers, iterating, prototyping, or critique.
- Talk to customers. Restoration professionals work in hectic, high-stress, noisy job sites, and understanding that context is part of the job.
- Run or contribute to workshops, add to objective and epic briefs that define opportunities, and pressure-test ideas with real stakeholder and customer input.
✅ What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years of experience as a product or UX designer, with a portfolio that shows full-cycle ownership — not just polished screens.
- Strong Figma craft: component-based design, systems thinking, prototyping, and specs engineers can build from without guessing.
- Familiarity using AI tools in a design workflow, and judgment about when it helps and when it doesn’t.
- Comfort designing for technical constraints — you can have a real conversation with an engineer about tradeoffs.
- Experience with usability testing and a genuine habit of incorporating critique and feedback into your daily design life.
- Comfort in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment — priorities shift, and you can adapt without losing quality.
- A design mindset that helps level up our overall design practice at Encircle.
🤝 Why Encircle?
We VALUE our people:
- ⚖️ Balance: Flexible hours, self-managed vacation, and trust to manage your time.
- 🏠 Remote-first: Work where you’re most productive—with access to our collaboration hub in Kitchener.
- 🚀 Growth-oriented: We support your learning and career development.
- 💪 Well-being: We care about the full human—inside and outside of work.
Encircle is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply and will work with applicants to accommodate accessibility needs throughout the hiring process.
A Note on Authenticity: We value genuine interest and authentic interaction. Please be aware that we reserve the right to disqualify candidates if it is determined that application materials or interview responses a