Founding Product Designer

Parallelz; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A Toronto-based startup is seeking a product designer to create and define a new category of digital experiences. This hybrid, contract-to-permanent role offers the opportunity to directly influence product design and leadership in a cutting-edge environment leveraging AI. Ideal candidates will possess a strong portfolio, experience in dynamic settings, and a unique aesthetic vision.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating visual polish and inventive interaction design.
• Experience designing across mobile and web.
• Experience with consumer-facing products where UX differentiates.

Responsibilities

• Shape how users first experience the product.
• Define key design principles and culture.
• Invent new interaction models for a unique context.

Skills

Creative thinking

Aesthetic eye

Interaction design

Understanding social experiences

Comfortable with ambiguity

Product design direction

AI interaction design

Job description

About Parallelz

Parallelz is building a new platform for discovering and interacting with digital experiences — moving beyond the constraints of today's app stores, mobile, and web conventions.

Our technology enables seamless, instant-access experiences across devices, unlocking entirely new ways for people to explore, share, and engage with content and applications.

This shift demands fresh thinking about user experience: new patterns, new interactions, and new mental models for how people navigate the digital world. It's an opportunity to invent, not just iterate.

AI is woven into our platform — enabling new ways to power discovery, interaction, and experience across the product

Great design will be a fundamental differentiator of this new experience — not just in how it looks, but in how it feels and enables entirely new behaviors.

Our founding team includes industry veterans with deep experience in games, platforms, and venture-backed startups — including pioneers in game engine technology and consumer product design. We're fortunate to be backed by leading games and consumer investors from Canada and Silicon Valley.

About The Role

We're looking for a high-potential, creatively ambitious product designer to join us.

This is a contract role to start, with potential to evolve into a foundational full-time position — and for the right person, a path toward future design leadership at Parallelz.

You'll work directly with me (Founder & CEO), shaping how users first experience this new paradigm. You'll also define key design principles and culture as we grow.

We are Toronto-based and value in-person collaboration. This is a hybrid role with regular in-person work together.

Why This Is Unique

This isn't a typical product design role — we are building a new category of experience, drawing on the best ideas from leading social platforms and beyond, while inventing new interaction models for this unique context. You'll be shaping what this future looks and feels like.

For the right designer, it's an opportunity to shape the productization of years of deep R&D and define the future of web and mobile experiences as we bring this platform to market.

Requirements

• Sharp craft, creative thinking, and a strong aesthetic eye
• Portfolio that demonstrates both visual polish and inventive interaction design
• Experienced designing across mobile and web, with a hunger to create new patterns
• Understanding of and experience designing social, viral, and platform-based experiences
• Comfortable working in early-stage, fast-moving environments with ambiguity
• Driven to shape a new product and company's design direction
• Experience with consumer-facing products where UX is a key differentiator
• Experience with games, social, or discovery-driven products
• Interest in how AI can augment discovery and interaction design