Planned is an event management platform that helps companies streamline their meetings & events booking process. We make it easy for anyone to plan successful events while giving finance teams the visibility and control they need to maximize their budget. Planned has already worked with over 200 companies across North America, such as; PwC, L'Oréal, Google, Samsung & Airbnb.
We're on a mission to disrupt a $500+ billion industry. To achieve that, we want to work with brilliant minds and natural leaders who are driven to out-think, out-plan, and outperform the competition. We tackle every business decision with enthusiasm, and we love the work that we do!
Your Role

• Lead design on major projects end-to-end: research, ideation, prototyping, launch, and iteration.
• Use strong UX and system design skills to explore solutions and collaborate with developers to bring them to life.
• Contribute to our design system and foster a culture of strong cross-functional collaboration, building bridges rather than walls between Design, Engineering, and Product.
• Build a deep understanding of our users through research, testing, and close collaboration with Product Managers and our internal Customer Success team.
• Create alignment across teams through clear documentation, presentations, and workshops that explain ideas, trade-offs, and gather feedback.

About You

• Experienced in managing complex design projects, ideally in a startup environment with a small team.
• Comfortable with data products and simplifying complexity without oversimplifying.
• Measure success by real user impact and qualitative insights rather than over-indexing on quantitative metrics.
• A demonstrated strength in system design, and rapid prototyping.
• Mentor and collaborator who helps others grow.
• Think in systems, not just screens, and consider the entire user journey.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, and a rapid pace.
• Skilled facilitator who partners with developers, leads workshops, and drives better processes.
• Balance speed and quality, adapting fidelity to fit the stage of work.
• Contribute creative, innovative ideas beyond the brief.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Skilled at hi-fidelity prototyping through code (Framer Motion, GSAP, etc.) or advanced prototyping tools (Origami, Protopie, Framer)
• Experience vibe coding, contributing to bridging the gap between static screens in Figma and production
• Experience with TailwindCSS / React / NextJS

What We Offer

• Culture of high performance, strong talent density and in-person collaboration
• Unlimited PTO
• Competitive base pay and equity packages
• All the tools and gear you need to be successful (Macbook Pro, screens, mouse, keyboard, ChatGPT, Fullstory, etc)
• Health, dental, vision, psychology insurance
• Professional development subsidy
• Bus pass subsidy or indoor parking
• Stocked up snack bar & lunches in office 2x per week
• Dog-friendly office
• Relocation assistance, if needed