Senior Product Designer, Admins

Asana is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Admin Area team in our growing Vancouver office. If you love working with complex systems to create simple yet powerful user experiences, then this role is for you.

As a Senior Product Designer in the Admin Area, you will focus on enhancing the experience for our Admin persona. Admins are crucial to Asana’s success, as they manage software adoption across organizations and ensure that tools like Asana are fully utilized. You will design features and experiences that empower admins to effectively classify, manage, and secure various types of data within Asana, ensuring compliance with their central IT policies. This work is vital in helping admins feel confident about their users adopting Asana broadly, knowing that their organization's data, especially sensitive information, is protected.

You will play a key role in shaping the strategy and priorities of the Admin Area, working closely with cross-functional teams in both Vancouver and San Francisco. Your ability to think critically about systems, solve complex problems, and collaborate effectively will be essential in this role. 

This role is based in our Vancouver office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

About the design team

We design the future of teamwork. Asana has a bold, ambitious mission: help humanity thrive by enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly. Our design team is at the heart of that mission.

Asana Design is an inclusive and collaborative community. We’re a diverse group of designers from different backgrounds (product, brand and content design, design operations, producers, motion design, film, copywriting). We are a team that loves combining research, data insights, and peer feedback into a human-centered design process to produce designs that are core to the power of our applications. We partner with people across Asana to create our product, shape our brand, and drive greater impact through design. We use design to solve challenges and create experiences that customers love. We also take the time to get weird and have fun along the way.

We believe every designer should have the opportunity to grow and learn by utilizing their strengths and nurturing their interests.

Learn more about our team

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What you’ll achieve

• Lead the design of end-to-end experiences to simplify data management and security for enterprise users
• Work through product problems from opportunity and definition to shipping features to our customers
• Be actively involved in defining the strategy for your team and influencing its direction by identifying and defining new feature opportunities
• Deliver high-quality, polished, delightful, and easy to use design, thinking in terms of systems, not just screens
• Design and prototype multiple ideas quickly, and connect regularly with customers to validate product directions
• Participate in design critique and present work regularly to product leadership
• Partner closely with engineers as they build and ship solutions
• Experience career growth and personal development with world-class mentorship and development programs

About you

• 7+ years of relevant product design experience at a product-driven company
• Experience designing digital applications with deeply interconnected and technically complex systems
• Skilled in independently driving a human-centered design process, clearly communicating design work with solid rationale informed by research and data, and working collaboratively to ship end-to-end features 
• Customer-centric: elicits non-obvious customer needs, synthesizes research to gain a deep understanding and narrow definition of a problem
• Able to understand and adhere to a design system, while challenging and contributing to it when necessary
• A driven self-starter, experienced in taking ownership of the direction of ambiguous projects
• Possess a strong understanding of the product development process, from discovery and problem definition to detailed UX and visual design
• Success leading stakeholder meetings and getting alignment across multiple teams

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

What we’ll offer

Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit.

For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $154,000 CAD - $196,000 CAD. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified.

In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include:

• Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
• Career coaching & support
• Inclusive family building benefits
• Long-term savings or retirement plans
• In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences 

These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

About us

Asana helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named a Top 10 Best Workplace for 5 years in a row, is Fortune's #1 Best Workplace in the Bay Area, and one of Glassdoor’s and Inc.’s Best Places to Work. After spending more than a year physically distanced, Team Asana is safely and mindfully returning to in-person collaboration, incorporating flexibility that adds hybrid elements to our office-centric culture. With 11+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong. 

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also comply with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and similar laws in other locations.

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