Planera
Staff Product Designer
Canada, Remote. Posted 8 months ago
The role
A Staff Product Designer will own the end-to-end design of mobile app experiences. You will work with product, engineering, and leadership to translate construction scheduling workflows into mobile experiences.
What you will do
- Own the end-to-end design of Planera's mobile app experiences.
- Lead complex, ambiguous problem spaces by framing opportunities and running discovery.
- Partner with product managers and engineers to shape mobile roadmap priorities.
- Advocate for mobile users by grounding design decisions in user research and feedback.
- Drive excellence in mobile interaction design, usability, accessibility, and performance-aware UX.
- Contribute to product strategy by connecting mobile user needs with platform goals.
- Influence and evolve the design system.
- Facilitate design critiques, working sessions, and cross-functional reviews.
- Mentor and support other designers through feedback and collaboration.
- Continuously improve design processes.
Required qualifications
- 7+ years of product design experience, with significant ownership of mobile apps (iOS, Android, or cross-platform).
- A portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product ownership, strong interaction design, and solutions to complex problems.
- Experience operating at a senior-level scope.
- Deep understanding of mobile UX patterns, platform conventions, and designing for constrained, on-the-go environments.
- Strong systems thinking.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Comfort working in ambiguity and proactively setting direction.
- Experience contributing to or scaling a design system, especially for mobile.
Nice to have
- Expertise with workflow-heavy, operational, or B2B products (construction, logistics, scheduling, or similar is a plus).
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Stock options
- Benefits package
About the company
Planera is a fast-growing Series A Construction Scheduling Startup. They ship products that redefine how General Contractors and teams collaborate to build construction schedules.