• Move Quickly from Concept to Execution: Rapidly turn ideas into workflows, prototypes, and high-quality designs that help teams learn, make decisions, and move into development.
• Champion the User: Build a deep understanding of our customers and balance their needs with product strategy, business objectives, and technical considerations.
• Collaborate & Influence: Work closely with Product, Engineering, customers, and executive leadership to challenge assumptions, incorporate feedback, and maintain alignment with broader product direction.
• Drive Design Quality: Set a high bar for interaction and visual design, evolve our design systems and patterns, and partner with Engineering to ensure quality carries through to the final product.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Product Design, UX/UI, or similar roles, with a strong portfolio demonstrating ownership of complex, high-quality product experiences.
• Strong Product & Design Thinking: Strong design principles and product judgment, with the ability to simplify complex problems, challenge assumptions, and connect design decisions to customer and business outcomes.
• B2B SaaS & AI Experience: Experience designing complex B2B or enterprise software, with strong curiosity and ideally hands-on experience designing AI-powered features, workflows, or interactions.
• Modern Product Design, Research & AI Fluency: Advanced proficiency with Figma and FigJam, strong experience using Pendo and modern research methods to uncover and validate user needs, and hands-on fluency with AI tools such as Claude and Cursor to rapidly explore, prototype, test, and deliver sophisticated SaaS and AI-enabled experiences.
• Discovery & Execution: Proven ability to lead customer discovery and validation, rapidly translate insights into prototypes and designs, and move effectively from ambiguity through delivery.
• Collaboration & Influence: A highly collaborative communicator who can bring a strong point of view, work effectively with Product and Engineering, and confidently incorporate feedback from customers and executive leadership.
• Startup Experience: Experience thriving in a fast-paced, outcomes-driven startup environment where initiative, collaboration, and a bias for action are key to driving success.

Location

This role is fully remote within Canada or the US. Wherever you're based, you'll be part of a connected, collaborative, high-performing team that values flexibility and trust. To apply, you'll need to be eligible to live and work in one of those two countries — we can't wait to hear from you!

Our Culture

We thrive in a fast-paced startup environment where every team member plays a critical role in our success. We value ambitious, results-driven people who spot opportunities, take initiative and go the extra mile. Collaboration fuels our growth as we take on new challenges, learn constantly and move quickly. If you're a go-getter who thrives on impact, you'll fit right in. Our values are:

• Outcome Driven: We focus on setting ambitious goals and achieving measurable results, valuing success by the outcomes we deliver.
• Wide Responsibility: Our team is empowered to shape success, taking ownership from problem identification to solution implementation.
• Learning Mindset: We embrace curiosity, rejecting the status quo and encouraging continuous learning and agility.
• Strategic Speed: We make fast, effective decisions and embrace a bias for action to seize opportunities quickly.

Benefits at Athennian

We keep things simple and invest in the perks that matter — your wellbeing, growth and flexibility.

• Compensation: Competitive salary, equity and performance-based bonus structure.
• Work-Life Balance: A minimum of 3 weeks vacation, 5 sick days and 6 personal/flex days, plus a company-wide winter holiday shutdown.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, vision, long-term disability and a Health Spending Account (HSA).
• Family Support: Flexible parental leave, including top-ups.
• Remote Setup: A work-from-home allowance to get you set up for success.

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