Principial Product Designer

Ceridian is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.
Our brand promise – Makes Work Life Better™ – is the commitment we make to our employees, our customers and their employees, our partners, and to the communities we operate in around the world. As the pace of change accelerates, our modern technologies help our customers adapt, evolve, and win in today’s borderless, flexible, and skills-based work world.
Dayforce is Ceridian’s award-winning cloud HCM platform. Its single solution, single database, and single continuous calculation engine helps customers achieve increased efficiencies, productivity, and best-in-class compliance. Dayforce is the people platform for the global workforce.

Location: For this role, we are open to remote work and can hire anywhere in the United States or Canada.

Ceridian is looking for a deeply experienced, broad-minded Principal Product Designer to establish creative and strategic design leadership across our product suite, with an emphasis on Mobile, Design System, and Consumer Products.
Design at Ceridian is transforming from a legacy approach to “enterprise software” to a contemporary, user- and human-centered practice, recognizing that even HR and workforce management tools should look and work more like consumer software.
To realize this shift requires research and design influence and contributions at the highest organizational levels. Working alongside our leadership team and cross functional partners, the Principal Product Designer leads efforts that cross the entire suite (Dayforce, Dayforce Mobile, Dayforce Wallet, and future offerings), supporting Ceridian’s shift to being an experience-driven enterprise. A facilitative leadership style helps drive this shift with senior design, research, product, and engineering leaders to envision the evolution of our product suite.
This is a leadership role, not a management role. The Principal Product Designer will lead efforts of the design team, and occasionally direct efforts of specific sub-teams, but is not expected to manage direct reports.
What You’ll Do

• Provide creative and strategic leadership for design and throughout product development
• Advocate for user-centered design best practices within product development
• Partner with product and engineering leaders across Ceridian, including at the senior and executive level
• Lead, guide, and mentor - collaborate with product designers in pushing the user experience forward.
• Challenging the boundaries of the new design system for web and mobile
• Spearhead the development of experience-led product vision across the Dayforce suite
• Provide vision and strategic direction for key ‘horizontal’ activities such as Design System, Mobile, and Consumer Applications.
• Create strategic design deliverables such as strategy decks, customer journeys, visions of future experiences and evangelize these cross-product “blueprints” across teams
• Build and maintain a framework for establishing and assessing design quality
• Connect design with business value
• Work with design, research, program management, and product leaders on process for product development

Our Desired Profile

• Experience leading the design of complex products, services, and/or product suites (complex meaning: multiple platforms or channels; multiple audiences to address; complicated information and data to manage and make clear)
• Portfolio of work inspired by user research demonstrating a mastery of product design strategy, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, articulation of design rationale, strong communication and storytelling skills
• Proven success delivering large-scale, high-quality multichannel experiences across mobile, web, and beyond
• Experience leading a program of work across multiple teams through full product development cycles in discovery, concepting, prototypes, specifications, and enablement across design teams
• Experience working with executives on crucial, fuzzy, ambiguous, ‘Big Picture' strategic challenges that touch many teams
• Strong facilitation skills and experience employing a variety of methods and techniques to run complex design-led workshops
• Experience in providing guidance and mentorship to designers
• Deep expertise in journey and service mapping, storytelling, product design, problem framing and solving design problems
• Strong presentation skills that showcase ability to articulate strong design rationale, connect design decisions to broader strategic and business decisions, and compel executive stakeholders to action
• Experience designing for inclusivity and for diverse audiences (international audiences, multi-language localization, accessibility for people with disabilities, etc.)

Ceridian is fueled by the diversity of our talented employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider and embrace ALL individuals and what makes them unique. We believe our employees should be happy and healthy, with peace of mind and a sense of fulfillment. We provide our employees with comprehensive benefits for various life circumstances and needs, great opportunities for career development, and a balanced lifestyle to achieve personal and professional success. We encourage all individuals to apply for positions that fit their passions.

We thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

About the Salary Ranges

Please note that the salary range mentioned in this job description should serve simply as a guide. The final compensation offered may vary based on a variety of factors, including bonuses and/or incentives, or a candidate’s experience, skills, and location. Our company is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive package that reflects the value an individual brings to the organization.

The range provided is in United States Dollars.

Fraudulent Recruiting

Beware of fraudulent recruiting activity! If you are contacted by a Ceridian Recruiter or other Ceridian employee, you will be provided with an @ceridian.com email. If you are contacted by someone who uses any other email domain, despite their use of our company logo or company name in their social media handle/profile, the contact could be fraudulent. Please also note, Ceridian will not request or send money and/or a check at any time during the recruiting or hiring process, ask you to order any equipment or supplies, or ask for any sensitive personal data, such as National ID numbers, via email or phone. Sensitive personal data is only collected post-hire, via new hire forms directly in Dayforce. If you have been asked for any of the above, or believe you have been contacted by someone posing as a Ceridian employee, please refer to our fraudulent recruiting statement found here: https://www.ceridian.com/company/corporate/be-aware-recruiting-fraud.