Product Designer
About The Position
Design at MaRS shapes how Canada’s most promising startups connect to the people, capital, customers, and insights that help them grow. As a Product Designer, you’ll work on the end-to-end design of new features and improvements across a range of MaRS’ platform, properties, and tools products. You’ll help define how founders, investors, and partners experience the MaRS platform - making innovation more accessible, intuitive, and trusted. This is a mid-senior individual contributor role with opportunity for significant impact. You’ll help evolve the MaRS platform into a trusted, intuitive, and scalable product that powers Canada’s innovation community. This is a full-time, 1 year contract, hybrid role based in Toronto.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience shipping larger scale software products
- Portfolio demonstrating strong UX, UI, and interaction design craft
- Possess impactful communication and storytelling skills
- Strong user empathy and ability to simplify complexity into clear, usable experiences
- Thrives in ambiguity, iterates quickly, and embraces collaboration across disciplines
- Comfortable working in Figma or similar tools, with a strong emphasis on quality and craft
- Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada, reside in Ontario and be willing to work out of our Toronto office (101 College Street) a minimum of 3 days per week.
Nice To Haves
- Gets excited about how AI-first products should look and behave!
Responsibilities
- Design and ship high-quality product experiences and improvements, from early concepts to high-fidelity prototypes and visuals
- Partner closely with engineering, product management, and collaborators to define long-term direction and short-term tactics
- Partner with cross-functional partners to deliver cohesive product experiences
- Contribute to a culture where design is a strategic partner
- Gather and analyze user feedback to continuously refine and improve shipped features
- Document design decisions and maintain clarity between design intent and implementation
- Define and track success metrics for design quality and user satisfaction to guide product decisions
- Contribute to the strategic design direction of the MaRS platform
- Engage in research to better understand our users and refine our platform
- Evolve the MaRS design system and strengthen alignment with brand guidelines
- Represent design in product reviews and community events
Benefits
- extended healthcare benefits
- paid time-off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
