Product Designer

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 tier-one venture capital investors, we are seeking to scale our high-performing team.

As a Product Designer, you would join our fast-growing product team, reporting to an experienced product leader with over 25 years in the industry. Hiive has a modern tech stack and quality product design and engineering that ships high-quality updates quickly. You will be expected to ramp up quickly and work with product managers, engineers and a product design team to deliver meaningful change in the business.

In the role, your responsibilities will include:

• Consider themselves versed in both UX and UI and be able to take a design all the way through low fidelity and high fidelity iterations.

• Be a system thinker who can work through and visualize interconnecting concepts and design for the present and future needs of the product.

• Adapt well to a quickly moving environment.

• Ability to solve complex design problems.

• Collaborate well with team members and be receptive to feedback.

• Be ambitious and self-motivated, and excited about working in an entrepreneurial environment.

• Have an up-to-date understanding of design best practices, standards and trends.

• Have excellent aesthetic sense.

Required Experience:

• 3+ years of product design experience.

• Experience working across all stages of user journey, marketing, onboarding and transacting.

• Experience working on mobile responsive UI design.

• Hands-on design skills preferably using Figma, or similar tools, for remote collaboration.

• Experience working closely with product managers and engineers on implementing and iterating on designs while they are being developed.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience working in a fintech startup or designing for marketplaces.

• Experience designing marketing collateral design.

• Experience in design research facilitation and user testing.

Compensation, Benefits & Perks:

• 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.

Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.