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The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

What's the salary range for the Senior Product Designer position?

The suggested salary for this position is $202,500-$247,500*

Is telecommuting possible for this position?

Yes, telecommuting is possible for this position

Senior Product Designer job at HappyCo

HappyCo is a company where people can grow their careers and work with like minded people, with no egos or politics. HappyCo is values driven and offers a flexible, supportive culture. Join HappyCo and Make Work Happy! Founded in 2011, HappyCo (happy.co) builds mobile and cloud solutions to enable real-time property data. Our flagship product suite 'Happy Property’ has 2.7M units on its platform and has captured more than 270 million photos. We’re everyday people with a shared purpose — improving people’s lives. Our team is made up of thinkers, talkers, planners, makers, builders and everything in between. Together, we’re turning our passions into happier communities! When customers use our software, their communities get stronger. Our tools empower everyone in multifamily property management to improve their operations and maximise returns, which means they’re building better experiences for their residents. When property people are happy, we’re happy. That’s why we’re HappyCo. Learn more about our Product Vision here!

Where & How We Work

At HappyCo we work in a multitude of ways depending on where we are and what is going on in our lives. Whether that be fully remote or hybrid remote, or in-office sometimes, we cater for everyone!

We currently have an office in Adelaide, Australia but our team is currently spread across Australia, United States, New Zealand, Canada and we are growing rapidly!

As our HQ is in Adelaide, so if you are based there you have the option of working in the office, at home or in a hybrid capacity! For those in other states, we enable complete remote working!

Being globally distributed means thinking about other time zones and to support this we offer autonomy and flexibility in how you structure your day around core working hours. There might be some collaboration outside of a "normal" 9-5, but we aim to work asynchronously as much as possible.

Our HappyCo Culture

HappyCo strives to build better communities. So naturally, we are dedicated to making our own community an enjoyable place that lets us do our best work. We’re devoted to building an inclusive, supportive culture that empowers each HappyCo’er to succeed and grow. To learn more about our culture, check out our Glassdoor page and our careers page!

A Senior Product Designer at HappyCo is an integral part of a successful, high performing product team. You’ll operate as the “Chief Creative Officer” in your team, and play a crucial role in helping bridge what product managers want to build and what engineers actually build, bringing your ideas to the table and discovering the right solutions together in collaboration. Sitting in the shoes of both external and internal customers, you’ll create shared product experiences that are leveraged across product teams to multiply the impact of their product line.

You are always looking to learn and experiment and are driven by customer data on usage and adoption metrics, as well as insights gleaned from meeting and speaking with customers directly. You will have a broad range of knowledge and skills across the full gamut of Product Design including product strategy, user research, interaction design and visual design. You’re a systems thinker and will constantly look for ways to create clarity through complexity and identify opportunities for the core HappyCo experience to mature and perform at scale.

You’ll join a product team triad, working closely with a product manager and lead engineer, so proactive communication, storytelling and stakeholder management will be instrumental to your ability to execute and deliver on outcomes together.

During your first two weeks, you will:

Get to know our leadership, culture, and values
Complete our HappyCo orientation and onboarding program
Onboard with the design team, your product triad and product team
Start reading our favorite industry primers
Familiarise yourself with our tools (pssst: we use Figma and Dovetail)
Attend your first Company Wide Meeting and Product Update Meetings (rotating bi-weekly)

During your first six weeks, you will:

Join customer calls to gain real-time exposure to the problems we are solving
Acquire industry knowledge and understand our product strategy and wider range of products
Bring your ideas and design leadership skills to the table and drive collaboration with the product team triad leveraging design thinking processes
Get up to speed with the wider design team, joining regular critiques and team meetings
Work with your Manager to set goals and priorities

During your first six months, you will:

Drive product discovery activities with your team, facilitate customer research, synthesize findings and identify opportunities that deliver value to customer and align with our product strategy
Design, test and deliver a solution to customers, tracking adoption metrics towards a product team outcome
Understand, work with and contribute to the HappyCo Design System
Work with other designers across teams to ensure a holistic user experience
Visit our customers to gain important contextual information to build deep understanding of their day-to-day operations, their roles and scope of their responsibilities.
Contribute effectively to design team culture through leadership, mentorship, knowledge sharing and raise the bar for quality, efficiency and scalability

Your job will involve:

Leading end-to-end product solutions from discovery through to delivery
Collaborating with your product triad and team to deliver on outcomes using concepts, flows, wireframes, high fidelity mockups and prototypes for customer validation, rapid iteration and usability testing
Thinking in systems, continuously zooming in and out to recognize and look for dependencies between different parts of our product offering
Identifying and prioritizing solutions that are solve our customers problems
Ensuring customer-centricity and usability of highly-complex and technical products
Delivering presentations that showcase your relevant work and team’s progress against outcomes, learnings and insights to the wider company and key stakeholders

What we think you should have to be successful:

5+ years of product design experience with high proficiency in product discovery techniques and approaches
Strong product discovery skills, with proven experience using frameworks and coordinating research and usability testing
A results-driven portfolio comprised of compelling solutions that solve real world problems
Competency conducting research and usability testing, and setting outcome-based goals
Experience designing for multiple levels of audiences and user archetypes within an enterprise or B2B context
Experience working within a tech-based design role or digital-focused agency and the ability to work closely with software development teams
Motivated by people-centric design processes and a desire to create happiness through delightful experiences
Flexibility of schedule to work across timezones, meeting online with customers and team members based in Australia & North America as required

About HappyCo

HappyCo builds mobile and cloud solutions to enable real-time property data. Its Happy Property flagship product suite has 3.5M units on its platform and has captured more than 270 million photos. The company was founded in 2011 and is privately held with employees located throughout North America and Australia.

We’re everyday people with a shared purpose — improving people’s lives. Our team is made up of thinkers, talkers, planners, makers, builders, and everything in between.

To learn more about our culture, check out our Glassdoor page!

Also some of the added benefits you’ll experience while working at HappyCo are:

- Competitive remuneration

- Opportunity to work for one of the fastest growing technology companies in the Proptech industry in Adelaide

- Paid parental leave policy

- Flexible hours and work environments to help you best maintain a healthy work/life balance

- Monthly stipend to support expenses related to health and wellbeing, such as gym membership, fitness classes, etc.

*Overseas travel to North America is dependent on practicality and travel advice.

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that HappyCo upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status. HappyCo is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

A note to Recruitment Agencies: Please don’t reach out to us about our roles -- we’ve got it covered. We don’t accept unsolicited agency resumes and HappyCo is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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