Are you interested in being part of a high-performing team solving a real business need?

Jobber exists to help people in small businesses be successful. We recently raised a $100m Series D from General Atlantic to build the next evolution of our product. As featured in the Globe and Mail, we work with home and field service companies to help them better quote, schedule, invoice and collect payments from their customers. Having been named the #2 fastest-growing software company in Canada and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2020, it’s clear we’ve come a long way from our first customer in 2011 – but we’ve just scratched the surface of what we want to accomplish for our customers.

Our product provides entrepreneurs the flexibility of working in their office or the field and we offer that same opportunity to our employees. You will have the choice to work in either our Toronto or Edmonton offices or remotely anywhere within Canada. We’re committed to ensuring the best experience for all Jobberinos to do impactful work. We weren’t named a top workplace in Canada for nothing!

The role:

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Product Design, this Manager will deeply understand both overall market conditions and trends, as well as our customers’ problems, to ensure we are executing on the highest priority initiatives.

Leading design across multiple teams in the “Work Smarter” product group, you will be directly responsible for your team’s delivery of high quality and thoughtful user experiences. This is a very collaborative role that will require you to work closely with your team triads, and many other senior stakeholders across Jobber.

You will utilize data and consumer research to understand and validate top priorities, conceptualize a strategy, and incrementally execute on that strategy with teams of designers, product managers, and developers to then measure success. You will lead a diverse team, including Senior and Staff reports. You will help shape the team visions, and keep designers and stakeholders engaged and excited about finding and developing solutions to empower mobile small businesses.

The teams:

The needs of businesses using Jobber are intricate and ever-changing. We develop operational and financial tools to support the growth and success of small businesses. As a Manager, you will oversee multiple teams within our "Work Smarter" group, a cornerstone of Jobber's core product offering.

This group is dedicated to enhancing the efficiency and overall experience of our customers in planning and executing their work. Whether it's booking and scheduling jobs, creating compelling quotes, streamlining the crew’s workday out in the field, or providing valuable business insights, we empower businesses to operate with excellence. These teams play a pivotal role in achieving this goal.

The Manager, Product Design will:

• Understand the user experience through qualitative and quantitative research. In order to understand the customers, you’ll have to take large amounts of data points, research, and feedback and distill it down to what is truly important. Our customers are the lifeblood of our product, and understanding their problem areas within Jobber will inform strategic decisions and solutions, and shape the product experiences.
• Be responsible for the product design vision for teams that span multiple steps in the core user journey. You and your design teams will own the creative process of generating, developing, and curating new ideas. By understanding the connections between people’s day-to-day work, the overall product vision, and customers’ needs, you work with your product management & engineering partners to prioritize building what matters to achieve the products’ strategic goals and initiatives.
• Build a plan, implement it, and then measure success. You’ll be responsible for design plans and delivery timelines aligned with Product briefs and key milestones.
• Manage and grow a team of Product Designers with varying levels of experience and backgrounds. You practice situational leadership and can balance coaching, feedback, and mentorship of designers to improve their craft and achieve their career ambitions.
• Work with other product leaders to communicate clear ideas and vision to Jobber’s Executive team.

To be successful, you should have:

• Execution excellence. You are motivated by getting things across the finish line, and have a solid track record of managing projects and multiple priorities at any given time. Your teams have worked on different company business units / domains concurrently.
• A desire to collaborate. To deliver high-quality features as quickly as possible, you’ll need to partner with many different people and departments.
• A knack for the details, with an understanding of the big picture. In your role, the details matter and help drive your team forward with a sense of direction and clarity. You balance quantitative and qualitative research in decision-making and have a solid understanding of the end-to-end product design process, and the artifacts that come out of the journey.
• Impeccable communication skills. Your written and verbal communication skills help articulate the voice of the customer and the needs of the business.
• Empathy. You are naturally empathetic. This means you have innate curiosity and the ability to understand our customers - what motivates them, frustrates them, drives them and makes them happy.
• An ability to motivate. You listen before speaking and understand before providing solutions. You focus on the relationship and build trust easily. You have experience managing designers in a high-growth environment.
• Ownership. You are driven to do the right things for your work. You are accountable to both your successes and your shortcomings. You want to move fast and aggressively. You have experience with SAAS business and an understanding of the basic SAAS metrics that lead to business success.

It would be nice (but not a deal-breaker) if you had:

• Past startup experience, specifically in an organization that experienced fast-paced growth.
• Experience working closely with specialist design disciplines including but not limited to UX research, content strategy, design systems, design operations, and prototyping.