Job Description
Named #4 startup in Canada for 2024, Hiive is a fintech/marketplace startup connecting buyers and sellers of stock in venture-backed pre-IPO companies🚀. Thanks to our industry-leading technology and best-in-class capital markets team, we are home to the fastest-growing marketplace for the stock of “unicorns” on the planet. As a profitable and rapidly growing business backed by US venture capital investors, we are seeking to scale our high-performing team.
Interested in learning more about life at Hiive? Check out our careers page to see how you can grow with us!
As a Product Designer at Hiive, you’ll join a fast-growing, high-impact product team. You’ll work within a modern tech stack alongside strong Design, Product, and Engineering partners who move quickly yet also care deeply about craft. We’re looking for someone who can ramp up fast, collaborate cross-functionally, and help drive meaningful, measurable outcomes for the business.
In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Helping to strategize and design for one of our product pillars, ensuring that your work aligns with business goals.
- Developing hypotheses and suggesting specific research and testing to help teams better understand our audience.
- Carrying out solid design fundamentals, using visual principles to improve the polish for the product.
- Building interaction flows and diagrams that simplify complex information with thoughtful information architecture, illustrating successful user journeys.
- Demonstrating an effective design process that helps with the efficiency of your work.
- Synthesizing different stakeholder inputs and technical constraints to build and present human-centred workflows.
- Communicating well with partners and team members, responding and documenting your work in a timely manner.
- Acting as a key collaborator, assisting and supporting others in an inclusive manner.
- Working across various constraints and issues, making decisions to help the team get results
- Helping cross-functional groups carve out a strong narrative, detailing how design plays a role in the larger vision.
- Supporting others around you, championing the company values with a positive outlook.
- Responding effectively and respectfully to various working conditions with a growth mindset.
- 3–5 years of professional design experience.
- Mastery in Figma and other applicable design software.
- Relevant experience with different design methods and techniques.
- Resume highlighting your education, employment history, and relevant skill set.
- An online or PDF portfolio (please include any passwords).
- Previous experience working in a Fintech startup or designing for marketplaces.
- Previous experience facilitating research and user testing.
- Technical proficiency to develop, build, and scale systems.
- Ability to adapt well in quickly changing environments.
- Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution.
- Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing early-stage startup through our employee stock option plan.
- Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, a health and personal spending account.
- A dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.
- Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.
- An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly “Friday bar,” team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two “onsite” all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Womens’ Network events.
- Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.
- Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.
- Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.