Designer Produit Senior / Senior Product Designer

Akur8•Montreal, QC

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Akur8 is a fast-growing InsurTech scale-up on a mission to modernize how insurers assess, price, and manage risk. Our next-generation SaaS platform combines transparent machine learning, predictive analytics, and smart product design to turn complex insurance workflows into scalable, data-driven systems. Powered by expert engineering, data, product, and actuarial teams, Akur8 enables insurers to model risk up to 10x faster while maintaining transparency, explainability, and regulatory trust. As our product suite expands, we are building an end-to-end platform supporting non-life and life pricing, reserving, market intelligence and forward-looking risk decisions — helping insurers operate efficiently in a complex environment. Recognized globally, Akur8 has been featured in: CB Insights’ Insurtech 50 (2025), CNBC’s InsurTech Top 150 (2025), InsurTech100 Global Insurtech Top 100 (2025), Professional Equality Index 97/100 (2025). With 40+ nationalities across 8 global offices, we serve 320+ clients across 4 continents while maintaining a strong engineering and product culture. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, fostering an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives help shape better products and decisions. We're seeking a talented Senior UX Designer to join our team in Montreal. Your role will involve shaping, developing, and bringing to life all user-facing elements of Akur8 products. Reporting directly to the Head of Product, you'll serve as a strategic partner to both Product Management and Engineering, focusing on a dedicated product domain. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that our design solutions align with industry standards and best practices. Your seniority will mean that you’re instrumental in driving high-quality design outcomes, both in terms of supporting the design needs, as well as advocating for design excellence across the organization.

Requirements

5+ years experience.
Proven B2B / SaaS UX Design experience.
Expertise in UX/UI design principles, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design work.
Experience creating, using, and maintaining design systems, as well as coding components
Comfortable reading and editing frontend code
Proven usage of AI coding agents to make targeted UI fixes
Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working in iterative design cycles.
Aptitude for understanding quantitative fields like data science, actuarial modeling, financial domain
You have a strategic view to everything you do - your work stands the test of time.
Strong problem-solving skills aptitude for addressing intricate design challenges and steering the development of innovative solutions.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with a demonstrated ability to manage stakeholders effectively and influence decision-making processes.
Passionate about craftsmanship and the impact of design.
Based in Montréal OR be willing to relocate.
Fluent level of spoken English.
Please include a link to your portfolio (including password if password protected)

Responsibilities

Demonstrating exceptional skills in design craft, encompassing UX/UI design and design ops.
Tackling complex design problems by collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions.
Informing your designs with both qualitative and data-driven insights on user needs and pain points.
Upholding a high-quality bar for design deliverables, ensuring they meet user needs and align with business objectives with oversight from relevant stakeholders.
Delivering high-quality design solutions, through design critiques and close team collaboration.
Defining and maintaining UX design guidelines across the platform to keep the experience coherent as the product scales
Owning the design system end-to-end: component architecture in Figma, design tokens, and their implementation in the frontend codebase
Aligning with frontend engineers to make sure design intent survives into production
Using, maintaining and enhancing AI-assisted workflows (Claude, Cursor, or equivalent) to streamline the design process and contribute directly to product enhancements
Managing stakeholders effectively, communicating design decisions, and evangelizing the value of design throughout the organization.
Being autonomous and responsible for your time and deliverables.