Job description
BuildOps is looking for a talented senior product designer based in Toronto/GTA who will be responsible for key initiatives and product areas. This candidate will join a well-funded, fast-growing startup with the unique opportunity to help build and improve critical parts of the product for our customers.
The ideal candidate is someone comfortable working on complex and ambiguous projects in a fast-paced environment. They’re hard working and naturally take initiative. Above all else, the ideal candidate cares deeply about doing excellent work that helps make people’s lives better.
What You’ll Do
- Independently own the end-to-end design process from user flow diagrams to polished designs that are ready for engineering handoff
- Participate in discovery calls and visits with our users and synthesize research into key insights that will support your decisions
- Partner with product managers and collaborate throughout the design process to deliver solutions that bring value to our users and our business
- Work closely with engineers, QA, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, constraints, and iterate on ideas quickly
- Participate in design reviews by sharing work with the team and providing constructive feedback to the other team members
- Contribute to the design team’s culture of collaboration and support
- Mentor more junior members of the team
What We Look For
- 5–7 years of experience in product design, with a proven track record of delivering successful products from concept to launch
- Experience working on enterprise or vertical SaaS
- Expert proficiency in Figma
- Must be detail-oriented
- Strong understanding of UX/UI principles and methodologies, with experience conducting user research and usability testing, and making data-driven decisions
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts and rationale to diverse audiences
- A passion for design and a relentless commitment to creating exceptional user experiences
- Ability to travel up to six times per year for team meetings and customer visits
Bonus
- Familiarity with the commercial trades (HVAC, plumbing, electrical) and/or construction
- Experience leveraging AI tools to enhance various stages of the product design process — from research and ideation to prototyping.
- An understanding of HTML and CSS principles
- Familiarity with tools like Dovetail, UserVoice, and Jira
What we offer
- 110k - 130k OTE + bonus and equity
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Flexible paid time off
- Work from home stipend
- Flexible and hybrid work schedules (this particular role can be 100% remote)
- Company events like BBQs and team-building activities, both in-person and virtual
- Talented and motivated team members who care deeply about one another (seriously, everyone is rooting for your success!)
- The chance to get in on the ground floor and build something truly groundbreaking for ourselves and our amazing customers
Who we are
BuildOps is a fast-paced, high-growth start-up, committed to transforming a $30-billion industry through our all-in-one platform. Leveraging the latest technology, we’re taking commercial contractors from the world of pen and paper operations to digitized, efficient, data-driven business.
Our co-founders have over a decade of experience in both construction and SaaS technology, as well as a resume that includes Stanford, Harvard, Wharton, Cornell, Microsoft, and multiple successful startup exits, including a $1.2 billion acquisition.
BuildOps has raised multiple rounds of funding from some of the largest and most reputable Venture Capital firms, including Founders Fund, Fika Ventures, Siemens Next47, and Greenspring Associates.
Forbes Magazine
“BuildOps is unique because it addresses the problem of efficiency in construction for an often-overlooked audience. Rather than focusing on large projects, or catering to owners, they look to the needs of technician-heavy subcontracting firms working in the commercial space.”
TechCrunch
“The new financing will be used to support the company’s continued growth. BuildOps sells software that integrates scheduling, dispatching, inventory management, contracts, workflow and accounting into a single software package for commercial real estate contractors with staff ranging from a few dozen to several hundred employees.”
Crunchbase
In a statement, [former NFL superstar] Joe Montana noted that his firm (Liquid 2 Ventures) has an investment thesis in supporting America’s working class… “I just love the idea of making their lives far easier and better,” he said. With BuildOps, “you have one solution that does it all and talks seamlessly to every single part of their business from parts to ordering to inventory and more.”
Wall Street Journal [Paywall]
BuildOps, the Santa Monica, California, startup that provides software for real estate subcontractors was seeded with $5.8 million in funding from investors including Fika Ventures, MetaProp VC, Global Founders Capital, CrossCut Ventures, TenOneTen, IGSB, 1984 Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures and Ground Up Ventures.
