Benevity

Meet Benevity

The world’s coolest companies (and their employees) use Benevity’s technology to take social action on the issues they care about. Through giving, volunteering, grantmaking, employee resource groups and micro-actions, we help most of the Fortune 100 brands build better cultures and use their power for good. We’re also one of the first B Corporations in Canada, meaning we’re as committed to purpose as we are to profits. We have people working all over the world, including Canada, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, the United States and more!

At Benevity, we're passionate about empowering you to design the change you wish to see in the world.

Our Product Experience team is expanding, offering exciting roles for Product Designers across various teams. With a robust product vision, we aim to spark daily acts of goodness among clients, employees, customers, and charitable causes—and we invite you to join us on this mission.

We work with global brands that shape your daily experiences, creating software that powers their corporate goodness programs. Their goal is to attract, retain and engage today’s diverse global workforce by connecting employees to the millions of causes through our platform. 

If you're drawn to our vision and your experience aligns with what we're looking for, we encourage you to apply. We value a broad range of experiences, recognizing that skills can be adaptable and passion is a powerful motivator. Our commitment to diversity fuels our creativity and problem-solving capabilities, making us eager to welcome new perspectives to our team.

Your role:

As a Staff Product Designer of our Design System Skyline, you will be part of an empowered enablement team applying your experience and skills to designing solutions that move us towards a consistent and cohesive product platform experience. Some of the problems you could be helping solve include:

• Evolve our design system to align with our future platform vision while supporting our existing legacy designs
• Foster cross-functional collaboration to bring unified design and intentional user experiences across donating, volunteering, and granting
• Serve as a thought leader, uplifting the design team's skills in UI design, design thinking, and systems thinking
• Work with design leadership to refine and enhance our design strategies for greater efficiency and impact
• Lead the charge in making our platform and practices more inclusive and accessible to a broad audience

What you'll do:

• Report to the Director of Product Design and be responsible for managing, maintaining, and grow the Skyline Design System
• Work collaboratively with the team to modernize our product platform experience and increase the efficiency of designers and developers building them
• Advocate, educate, and enable product management, product design, and engineering in the use and best practices of the design system
• Uphold the highest standards of accessibility and inclusiveness across the design system
• Actively participate in ongoing planning activities with your team. Ensuring that work flowing into the team accurately captures acceptance criteria for functional and non-functional requirements
• Build strong, inclusive, collaborative relationships with peers, including designers, product managers, developers, and other cross-functional team members

What you'll bring:

We're on the lookout for a staff product designer with a knack for unifying complex systems within the context of enterprise software. We value diversity in experience and understand that expertise isn't solely measured by years. We're interested in someone whose skills and experiences resonate with the following:

• A strong portfolio showcasing your proven experience designing products and design systems that achieve real outcomes for users and the teams that build with them.
• Experience unifying complex software with a design system that encompasses multiple products inside of a platform company.
• Experience in designing and delivering products across a large enterprise product ecosystem.
• Able to demonstrate experience designing components and patterns, documentation, and educational materials for designers and front-end developers.
• Can demonstrate your skill in using the right pattern for the right platform, be it native mobile or responsive web.
• Well-crafted visual aesthetic, an eye for pattern recognition and detail.
• A strong ability to direct the overall holistic experience of a platform through influence and direction.
• Consider themselves a Figma expert, especially in the realm of building components, patterns, and templates in ways that support a large team of designers building with it.
• Experience assisting in improving design processes with an emphasis on scalability and design efficiency. 
• You have developed communication, collaboration and creative problem-solving skills: the ability to lead and the humility to adapt.
• Conduct your own generative and evaluative research studies
• Experience creating solutions that meet WCAG compliance and other inclusive design principles
• Comfortable leading meetings and facilitating workshops
• You are a cultural contributor and mentor to others
• Can use the right design tool at the right time to generate insights, high and low-fidelity prototypes, and developer-ready documentation
• A curiosity-driven approach, valuing feedback and inclusivity

What to expect:

• Be a part of a product experience team that genuinely cares for each other and the work we do - we are a very supportive and empathetic group
• A team that's growing in size: which means opportunities for leadership if you are interested
• Giving, volunteering, and granting are surprisingly complex and rewarding problem spaces to work in
• To become a better product designer and have a tangible impact on the world here at Benevity
• Focus on outcomes, not output. Creating more acts of goodness in the world guides everything we do
• Have regular conversations with your manager about your personal growth as a designer
• Autonomy to balance the needs of the business with the expectations of your personal life
• $2,500 per year in charitable donations and volunteer matching through our giving program

Our hiring process:

Designed for a positive experience, we focus on understanding your 'Why, What, and How' rather than design exercises. After being contacted by the Benevity people team for an introductory call, you can expect:

• Initial interview with our design manager focused on how your skills match our job posting (60 min)
• The In-depth Portfolio presentation where you share a deep dive into your past work (60 minutes)
• The Team Interview where you get to meet some of the members of your product team (60 minutes)

Discover your purpose at work

We are not employees, we are Benevity-ites. From all locations, backgrounds and walks of life, who deserve more …

Innovative work. Growth opportunities. Caring co-workers. And a chance to do work that fills us with a sense of purpose.

If the idea of working on tech that helps people do good in the world lights you up ... If you want a career where you’re valued for who you are and challenged to see who you can become …

It’s time to join Benevity. We’re so excited to meet you.

Where we work

At Benevity, we have developed a Community First approach that we design our people's experience around with goals to build a strong community and culture, achieve stellar execution of our business goals and social mandate, and ensure Benevity-ites thrive. For those who live within a reasonable commuting distance to an office, we can split our time working in the office and from home to optimize the opportunities of both, with the requirement that we spend at least 50% of the time in the office.

Join a company where DEIB isn’t a buzzword

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are part of Benevity’s DNA. You’ll see the impact of our massive investment in DEIB daily — from our well-supported employee resources groups to the exceptional diversity on our leadership and tech teams.

We know that diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills and passions are what move our business and our people forward, so we're committed to creating a culture of belonging with equal opportunities for everyone to shine. 

That starts with a fair and accessible hiring process. If you want to feel seen, heard and celebrated, you belong at Benevity.

Candidates with disabilities who may require accommodations throughout the hiring or assessment process are encouraged to reach out to accommodations@benevity.com.