Product Designer (4+ years)

Diagram; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing fintech platform is seeking a Product Designer to tackle design challenges and deliver exceptional product experiences. Candidates should have over 4 years of product design experience, including 2 years at a tech startup, and mastery of Figma. The role requires collaboration with PMs and dev teams to create intuitive product solutions. This position is based in Toronto, with flexibility to work remotely, and offers competitive compensation and various benefits.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Equity

Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance

Life Insurance and Disability Coverage

Generous time off

Flexible working hours and location

Qualifications

• 4+ years of product design experience, with 2+ years at a technology startup.
• Demonstrated experience with user research, wireframing, and usability testing.
• Ability to persuade stakeholders and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Work with PMs to define problem statements using user research.
• Identify the best design solution considering business and tech factors.
• Validate designs with users and align with stakeholders.
• Support dev team through implementation for accurate design translation.
• Collaborate to maintain and update Design System as needed.

Skills

Product design experience

End-to-end product design

Visual design skills

Figma mastery

Excellent communication

Job description

About Baselane

Baselane is a rapidly growing banking and financial management platform for individual landlords and real estate investors. We are backed by leading FinTech investors, including Matrix Partners, Activant Capital, Collaborative Fund, Conversion Capital, Diagram Ventures, ThomVest, and many FinTech leaders from PayPal, eBay, Google, and more.

We are building the future of financial services for the 12+ million individual landlords and real estate investors who own over 25 million homes in the United States. Our mission is to empower landlords with financial services, automated tools, and actionable insights to help them save time, increase their returns, and grow their investment portfolios.

We are a seasoned team with deep experience in financial services and technology. We have previously worked at companies including The Boston Consulting Group, Morgan Stanley, Plaid, Harry’s, Better, WealthSimple, RBC Ventures, Affir, NorthOne, Instawork, and more.

Learn more at baselane.com.

About the Role

We are seeking a Product Designer motivated by the opportunity to work at a design-driven company. You will tackle complex design challenges to deliver exceptional product experiences for our customers, with support and collaboration from all areas of the business.

You will help execute our product design and take ownership of the end-to-end design process in close collaboration with our design leader, Product, and Engineering teams; you will help ship the simplest, most intuitive product solutions.

In this role, you will work in a highly collaborative environment while getting autonomy, ownership, and the ability to impact the entire product.

This role is based in Toronto; we expect you to come to the office (downtown Toronto) at least once or twice a week for meetings and working sessions, but you can work remotely on other days.

Responsibilities

• Working with PMs to understand/define problem statements using user research, data insights and other tools
• Thinking through the user journey/scenarios and identifying the best design solution while taking into account any business/tech factors
• Validating designs with users, and getting alignment with internal stakeholders
• Getting designs ready for dev, supporting the dev team through implementation, and ensuring accurate translation of the design to code
• Collaborating with other designers to maintain and update the Design System as needed
• Helping evolve the long-term vision for the product/design by collaborating with the rest of the team

Must Have

• 4+ years of product design experience, of which at least 2+ years at a technology startup
• Demonstrated experience with end-to-end product design, including user research, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, and usability testing
• Experience owning product design from start to finish, working with developers and PMs
• Extraordinary visual design skills, and a solid understanding of UX/UI principles
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to persuade stakeholders
• Mastery of Figma

What’s in it for you?

• Be part of a dynamic, driven team with flat hierarchies and a get-it-done collaborative culture
• Training and development budget to ensure professional growth
• Regular team events, game nights, and other social activities

Practicals

• Team: Product & Design
• Location: Toronto-based only, 2-day a week in office. For this position, we will only look at applications from Toronto
• Office: We have an office in downtown Toronto and expect you to be in the office at least once or twice a week
• Start date: January

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Equity - Ownership in what we are building!
• High-quality Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance and Disability Coverage
• Generous time off
• Flexible working hours and location

$100,000 - $130,000 a year