Later is founded on two success stories that began in 2014: Mavrck, the industry-leading influencer marketing solution (now Later Influence™), and Later, the best social media management platform (now Later Social™) and first-to-market link in bio tool.
We’re trusted by the top social platforms, with partnerships and integrations with Meta, TikTok, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Pinterest.
In 2024, Mavrck and Later officially joined together as one unified business, with a shared vision: to enable the world to make a living with their creativity. We’re now on a mission to build the world’s first Social Revenue Platform.
Later will be the first inclusive platform where social media managers, influencer managers, and creators can come together to collaborate on content. We enable marketers to create high-performing content and engage in authentic collaborations with creators to reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI.
As a trusted partner and go-to source for social media advice, we help create an engaged community for reliable performance and repeatable growth.
About this position:
As a Product Designer at Later, you’ll play a crucial role in defining the direction and overall experience of our products. You’ll engage in big-picture thinking to create data-driven solutions that address user pains and capitalize on business opportunities. Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate closely with content designers, product managers, researchers, and developers to solve complex problems and design user-centered experiences. You’ll use your existing knowledge of design patterns to apply innovative approaches that deliver delightful experiences for content creators and brands, making collaboration seamless and enabling both to grow and monetize their online presence.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Lead product design and advocate for customers while working within a diverse, cross-functional team
- Create easy-to-use, high quality design experiences that enable our customers to drive social media and influencer marketing results
- Work closely with content design, UX research, product management, and development to understand and identify problems and opportunities, map user flows, and prototype solutions for user testing
- Contribute to our product roadmap using strategic design approaches that balance quality and speed of delivery
- Apply design best practices, principles, and methodologies to create efficient and cohesive user experiences
- Maintain and improve our evolving design system
- Present your work to the team by providing context of the problem and advocating for your design rationale
- Solicit feedback from others to continuously improve your skills and design solutions
What We’re Looking For:
- 2–4 years of relevant experience designing and delivering end-to-end digital products
- Ability to translate user needs and research into actionable design plans
- Ability to distill complex problems and workflows into simple, intuitive designs
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, interaction design, Information Architecture, methodologies, best practices, and approaches
- Experience with design systems
- Regular, successful collaboration within a product development team
- Experience in agile product development process
- Proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools
- A portfolio showcasing your best work
Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience designing for a product suite that involves multiple user types
- A degree or certification in one of the following: design (interaction or other), HCI (Human Computer Interaction), psychology, research, or another relevant discipline
Our approach to compensation:
We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted third-party compensation sources to help us understand the market value of a role based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.
Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting. Compensation for some roles is structured as On Target Earnings (OTE = base + commission/variable) while for others it is structured as Salary only.
To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted.
Additionally, all permanent team members are granted stock options and are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.
Salary Range:
84,000-95,000 CAD
Some perks of being on our team:
- Flexible PTO: We want you to take the time off when you want or need to recharge!
- Learning & Development: We provide growth opportunities through training, coaching, mentorship programs, and workshops.
- Parental benefits: We offer parental leave top-ups, family forming support, and a life-transitions program to ensure you and your family are well supported when returning to work.
- Healthcare: Our comprehensive benefits package includes health, dental, vision, STD & LTD, 401k contribution plans (US-based employees), and an Employee and Family Assistance Program to support the well-being of you and your family.
- Employee Resource Groups: Belonging is an important part of doing your best work. These ERGs provide support and community for employees.
*Co-op team members are not eligible for company benefits.
Where we work
We hire into our hub cities of Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC; Toronto, ON. We also have team members based remotely for select positions. We post our positions in the hub location(s) where we are open to having the successful candidate be located.
Diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
We value diversity of thought; we are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or age. Please let us know if you require any accommodations or support during the recruitment process.
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