Senior Product Designer
Cetaris – Greater Toronto Area, ON – Remote with occasional in-person teamwork
You will help shape the future of enterprise asset management by designing intelligent, data-driven, and increasingly AI-assisted user experiences. This includes leveraging modern AI tools and contributing to AI-powered product capabilities that improve decision-making, automation, and workflow efficiency for our clients.
About us
Cetaris builds leading-edge Enterprise Asset Management software to help some of the world’s largest organizations to manage millions of fleet and fixed assets in over fifty countries. We enable clients to mine mission-critical data to optimize the maintenance of their assets. Cetaris is a past winner of the ‘Best Tech Work Culture’ Timmy Award. Visit cetaris.com to learn more about us!
About the design team
We are seeking a highly skilled and creative Senior Product Designer to join our team. This is a newly created position to support our growing product design team. As a Senior Product Designer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the user experience and interface of our complex products, helping simplify complex, data-heavy workflows into intuitive and scalable user experiences. You will design and deliver user-focused solutions for our enterprise software.
As a Senior Product Designer you will
· Champion high-quality, user-centered experiences across all product decisions.
· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize design goals, including product managers, engineers, and other designers.
· Lead and evolve the Cetaris design system to scale across products, including component architecture, interaction patterns, and usage guidelines, working closely with engineering to ensure consistency between design and implementation.
· Own the end-to-end design process, from ideation and user flows to high-fidelity designs and final delivery.
· Conduct user research (interviews, surveys, usability testing) to inform and validate design decisions.
· Communicate and present your designs clearly to clients, stakeholders, and team members, explaining the rationale behind decisions and incorporating feedback.
· Leverage AI-assisted design tools and workflows to accelerate ideation, research synthesis, and prototyping.
· Design for intelligent and data-driven experiences, including predictive, recommendation-based, or automated workflows where applicable.
· Partner with product and engineering to define how AI capabilities are surfaced in the user experience in a clear, trustworthy, and usable way.
Required Skills and Experience
· A bachelor's degree or certificate from a program in user experience design, human-computer interaction, product design, or a related field.
· Proven experience (5+ years) working as a product designer, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design process and projects.
· Experience working at an enterprise or software product company (Software as a service product) designing data-heavy or workflow-intensive applications.
· Proficiency in design tools such as Figma.
· Experience conducting user research, including usability testing, surveys, and interviews.
· Ability to use data and user insights (qualitative + quantitative) to drive decisions.
· Strong understanding of design principles, interaction design, and information architecture.
· Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
· Working knowledge of front-end technologies and development workflows, with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and understand technical constraints.
· Experience working with or alongside AI-powered tools and workflows in the design process.
· Strong systems thinking, with experience designing scalable design systems, component libraries, and cross-product patterns.
AI & design workflow
We believe AI is transforming how products are designed and built. As a Senior Product Designer, you are expected to:
· Use AI tools to accelerate design workflows (research, ideation, prototyping, content).
· Critically evaluate and refine AI-generated outputs.
· Help shape AI-assisted product experiences with a focus on usability, transparency, trust, and clarity.
About you
· You have an innate curiosity and a desire to solve complex problems for humans.
· Excellent communication skills with the ability to present and justify design decisions to cross-functional teams.
· You are passionate about empathizing with customers/user needs, motivations, and behaviours, and can translate that empathy into your work.
· You enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and are comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback.
· You realize there is never one right answer and always search out new solutions to complex problems.
· Stay up-to-date with design trends, emerging technologies, and industry best practices.
· You are self-motivated and proactive, with a drive to continually improve and innovate.
Bonus points
· You are active in the design community.
· You have experience or knowledge of fleet maintenance.
· You have experience working on maintenance software or in similar industries.
Location and hours
Our team continues to work 100% remotely with a high level of daily team interaction and occasional in-person meet-ups in the Greater Toronto Area. Future plans around location are still open. Our primary focus is the wellness of our team and their families.
Compensation
This is a permanent full-time position (40 hours/week), with an annual salary (based on qualifications and experience) plus bonus, with an expected total compensation ranging from $95,000 – $120,000.
Includes shared comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and insurance benefits.
Why you want to be at Cetaris
· When we work from home – happy hours, cooking classes, travel tips, online games, and other on-camera fun!
· When we’re together - picnics, skiing, bowling, ziplining, boat rides, and board games!
· In-person meetups for team training and our annual user conference.
· Flexible work hours.
· Sit/stand workstations and other ergonomic supports.
· Individualized learning support and certification bonuses.
· Your birthday off!
· Benefits include dental, vision care, paramedical services, mental health support, telemedicine, and more.
· Team fundraising for Daily Bread Food Bank, Red Cross relief efforts.
· Employee groups support our team culture and ensure every team member feels they belong.
Hiring Process
Accessibility: At Cetaris, we are committed to providing a safe, equitable, and accessible space for all. If you are an applicant with a disability or work-related barrier, we invite you to reach out to discuss your accommodation needs at any phase in the application process.
Technology: Our hiring team currently does not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled tools to evaluate candidates. While we embrace AI tools in our software development work, all hiring decisions are made by humans.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $95,000.00-$120,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision care
- Wellness program
- Work from home
Application question(s):
- Please let us know if you've used any AI tools to assist in completing your application. If so, which ones and how. Thank you.
- Describe your recent work designing scalable design systems.
- In which work situations as a Product Designer have you found your systems thinking particularly useful?
- Which project in your portfolio do you think would be most relevant to Cetaris' fleet maintenance software development?
Experience:
- product design: 5 years (required)
- enterprise, SaaS, software product: 3 years (required)
- User research: 3 years (required)
- AI-driven design: 1 year (required)
Location:
- Greater Toronto Area, ON (preferred)
Work Location: Remote
