###Description

Riipen is looking for a Senior UX/UI Designer to join our Product team.

We’re seeking an experienced product designer who is passionate about creating intuitive, high-impact user experiences. The ideal candidate brings strong design execution skills combined with strategic thinking and the ability to elevate design quality across the team.

As a Senior UX/UI Designer, you will play a key role in shaping the Riipen platform experience across all sides of our marketplace. You will translate product requirements into thoughtful, scalable design solutions while simplifying workflows and improving usability for our users.

This role is bothhands-on and influential- you will contribute directly to product design while also helping guide the quality and consistency of design work across the team. You will partner closely with Product Managers, developers, and other designers to ensure that Riipen delivers cohesive, user-centred experiences.

Ultimately, you will design both functional and engaging product features that address user needs, simplify complex workflows, and help grow Riipen’s global user base.

This role is currently an individual contributor position with design leadership responsibilities and has the potential to evolve into a formal design leadership role as the team grows.

###Key Responsibilities

• Translate product requirements into clear, intuitive design solutions that enhance usability and user engagement

• Drive the design of both functional and visually compelling product features that support growth across all sides of the Riipen platform

• Develop wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups that clearly communicate design concepts

• Create scalable UI components and maintain design consistency across the platform

• Identify opportunities to improve existing workflows and iterate on new design solutions

• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with Product Managers, developers, and internal stakeholders

• Conduct user research and usability testing to validate design decisions

• Research customers, competitors, and market trends to identify UX improvements

• Work closely with Product Managers, developers, and other stakeholders in an Agile software development environment

• Present design concepts, prototypes, and solutions to internal teams and stakeholders

• Communicate design decisions, trade-offs, and constraints effectively

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure design feasibility and product quality

• Help define and evolve the visual style and user experience across Riipen’s platform

• Maintain and evolve the design system and component library

• Review and provide feedback on the work of other designers

• Take ownership of the overall quality and consistency of design outputs across the team

• Sign off on component updates and ensure design standards are upheld

###Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

You may be a good fit if you have:

-5–8+ years of experiencedesigning UX/UI for web and mobile applications

• A strong portfolio demonstrating user-centred design, product thinking, and high-quality design execution
• Expertise with modern design tools such asFigma, Sketch, or similar platforms
• Strong understanding ofdesign systems and scalable component libraries
• Experience conductinguser research and usability testing
• Ability to translate complex product requirements into intuitive user experiences
• Experience working withinAgile product development environments
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work cross-functionally with product managers and engineers
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present ideas and influence stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects in a fast-paced environment

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience designing formarketplace or multi-sided platforms

• Experience building or improving a native mobile application

• Familiarity withHTML, CSS, or front-end implementation constraints

• Experience helping define or evolve adesign system at scale

• Degree inUX/UI Design, Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field

###Benefits

• Remote/travel working opportunities (when appropriate)
• ️ 4 weeks of annual vacation
• Paid sick leave
• Extended Health and Dental benefits from your first day
• We will ensure you have a great work-from-home setup
• Learning & Development Stipend after 6 months of employment

We appreciate your interest and application. Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.

Riipen is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, colour, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances.

Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.

###About Riipen

Conceptualized by Dana Stephenson and Dave Savory for their capstone entrepreneurship project at the University of Victoria, Riipen addressed an issue that they faced personally as learners — the challenge of gaining relevant work experience, building a network of possible employers, and then demonstrating their skills to that network in order to find work that would help them start their careers. They were facing the graduation conundrum —You can’t get a job without experience, but you can’t get experience without a job.

Since inception in 2013, Riipen has expanded its reach internationally and has developed a state of the art technology platform that caters and provides significant competitive advantages for organizations and academic institutions while staying true to their original goal of supporting student development. Riipen has enabled 193,000+ students at 590+ post-secondary institutions and training providers to partake in applied learning with 31,000+ companies. All of this leads us to our mission: Eliminate Underemployment.