Principal Designer

We are open to remote candidates

Metalab ships products loved by billions worldwide influencing how we work live and play. Chances are you've interacted with many products we've helped shape. Now we need your expertise to craft the future. As a Principal Designer you’ll lead fully within the work constantly seeking opportunities to elevate design quality and expand the skillsets of those around you. Joining a team of the most senior design practitioners at MetaLab you’ll be expected to operate across multiple creative disciplines delivering exceptional work on the most challenging projects. Often you’ll lead in defining the product experience translating the intention of the product strategy and the character and emotion of the brand into thoughtful useful and lovable products.

What you’ll do

• You'll work across many aspects of the design process. Our Principals are true multidisciplinary designers and craftspeople bridging experience visual and motion design to create exceptional digital products.

• Set the bar for quality on your projects. Typically you’ll be the only principal designer on a project so you’ll be identifying opportunities to elevate the work and the team around you often pushing clients and colleagues outside of their comfort zones to deliver exceptional products.

• Support other designers of all levels in the work and help to promote an inspiring and inclusive environment for the team.

• Work closely with our brand team to ensure that the brand principles are translated into the products we design.

• Collaborate with design specialists.

• Participate with research and strategy to generate and evaluate design opportunities and test solutions through storyboards and prototypes.

• Collaborate directly with and present to key client team members.

• Work hand-in-hand with engineers and product team members to foster innovation and ensure feasibility and fidelity of implementation.

• If desired you have the opportunity to coach and mentor other designers.

• Share your knowledge and approach to the craft with the broader design team at MetaLab and the wider industry.

Requirements

• Experience working in collaborative highly iterative cross-functional teams sharing work daily.

• Proven experience across UX UI and Motion design at a senior level with a portfolio that showcases your range typically T-shaped with your core discipline being UI and Motion design.

• Strong facilitation and communication skills enabling effective critique and design discussions with a demonstrated ability to communicate design rationale and strategy effectively.

• A track record of working across the product development cycle from initial vision and discovery through to detailed design execution.

Nice to haves

• 3D skills are a bonus

Pay Range

While this role can be filled in a variety of global regions as an organization headquartered in BC Canada we are required to include the pay range for this role if it were to be filled in BC. This range may be higher or lower depending on the candidate's region and market conditions when outside of BC.

Expected Pay Range: CAD $135000 - $175000