Product Designer
About The Position
Makeship empowers influencers, creators, and brands of all sizes to develop and launch limited-edition products that matter to their fans. Leveraging our design, manufacturing, and marketing expertise, we work with our partners to bring their products to life through our community-powered crowdfunding platform. Each product is given a window of 21 days to be funded by the community before we produce and ship to fans worldwide. We put our brand behind every product and guarantee quality and ethical sourcing. We're profitable, we have a three-year revenue growth of over 200%, ranking us 97th in 2024 and 86th on The Globe and Mail’s Canada’s Top Growing Companies of 2025 list. We are also excited to announce that Makeship has officially been Great Place to Work-Certified™ for 3 years in a row! Learn more about us at Makeship.com . During this exciting phase of our growth, you’ll play a huge role in shaping our culture, our process, and the future of Makeship. Every day, you’ll collaborate, learn more about the content creation space, and watch your work impact the company and the community! We want this to be the best work experience of your life, so we’ll pay you well, offer great benefits, invest deeply in your growth, and welcome you with our branded swag. You will also be joining one of Canada's fastest-growing start-ups!
Requirements
- 3+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of design solutions
- Experience with user research and usability testing techniques (e.g. user interviews, usability testing, assumption testing)
- Strong UI craft, with an eye for layout, typography, and visual polish
- Experience working within and contributing to a design system
- Comfort collaborating cross-functionally with product, engineering, and marketing
- Experience designing B2C products, ideally involving content discovery, browsing, or shopping-style experiences
Nice To Haves
- Experience in e-commerce or crowdfunding
- Experience working in the creator economy
- Experience on a growth-focused team
- Familiarity with accessibility standards
Responsibilities
- Design valuable and usable experiences from ideation through to production-ready designs
- Follow fundamentals of good UI design to create polished interfaces across all devices
- Base design decisions on layout, hierarchy, typography, colour, and motion with strong rationale
- Contribute to and help maintain our design system as the platform evolves
- Conduct user research and usability testing to validate assumptions and inform design decisions
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and brand to ship a cohesive, high-quality product
- Proactively identify usability issues, both small and large, and propose solutions
Benefits
- Work remotely anywhere in Canada and/or access any of our hubs
- Health and dental benefits from day 1
- 4 weeks of paid vacation (including paid time off on your birthday)
- An additional 1 week of paid time off during the winter holidays
- Virtual & In-Person Social Events
- Annual Paid Volunteer Day Off
- 1:1 RRSP Matching Program Up to 3%
- $500 Pre-Tax Annual Health & Wellness Allowance
- $400 Pre-Tax Home Office Setup Allowance
- $65 Pre-Tax Monthly Phone Allowance
- Maternity and Parental Leave Top-Up Program
- Education Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Program
- Tenured Rewards Program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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