Product Designer Vancouver, BC, Canada

CoMedia Design Inc.; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Based in Vancouver

Job summary

Comedia is seeking a Product Designer with strong craft and a bias toward shipping. The role emphasizes AI-driven research, prototyping, and iteration, with remote-friendly options but based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship real products, create value beyond visuals, and present design decisions directly to clients and engineers. You should be able to balance user needs with business realities while staying adaptable as projects evolve.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing shipped, real-world digital products.
• Experience across product thinking, UX, and UI.
• Ability to conduct lightweight research and apply insights to design decisions.
• Experience mentoring junior designers and giving constructive feedback.
• Ability to create clarity from ambiguity and manage evolving inputs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and ship real products
• Create solutions that deliver measurable value, not just visual polish
• Work directly with clients—from understanding business needs to presenting and defending design decisions
• Craft and build problem-solving processes for different types of projects
• Help push boundaries while staying grounded in reality
• Clearly articulate design decisions and explain thinking to clients and engineers
• Establish and adapt clear processes while projects evolve
• Design for agentic products where users set a goal and the system handles the steps
• Use AI to keep things moving; know when not to hand-craft every pixel

Skills

Product design

UX

UI design

Client communication

AI tooling

Tools

Figma Make

Claude

Gemini

Job description

At Comedia, we're not your typical agency. From our offices in San Francisco and Vancouver, we build digital products that matter, working with both scrappy startups and industry giants. We believe in making the complex simple and getting things done without the unnecessary fluff. While we take our work seriously, we don't take ourselves too seriously.

The Role

We're looking for a Product Designer with strong craft and a bias toward shipping. AI is changing how we research, prototype, and iterate, and we want someone genuinely excited about that. The expectation is that you use these tools to produce better work faster, not as a substitute for design fundamentals. (*Remote-friendly, but you must be based in Vancouver, BC, Canada)

What You'll Actually Do:

Collaborate with our cross-functional teams to build and ship real products

Create solutions that deliver measurable value, not just visual polish

Work directly with clients - from understanding business needs to presenting and defending design decisions

Craft and build problem-solving processes for different types of projects

Help us push boundaries while keeping things grounded in reality

Clearly articulate design decisions and explain your thinking to clients and engineers

Establish and adapt clear processes while staying adaptable as projects evolve

Design for agentic products: interfaces where users set a goal and the system handles the steps. This is increasingly where our client work lives

Use AI to keep things moving. Knowing when not to hand-craft every pixel is a skill. If AI can get an onboarding flow 80% there in hours, spending a week on it is the wrong instinct

You'll Thrive Here If:

You take on projects and run with them on your own

You're comfortable leading client conversations, shaping the brief as we're responding to it, while clearly articulating the rationale behind your decisions

You apply user-centric design principles with ease, following web and mobile design standards, whilst challenging the status quo

You have a strong eye for design and a deep understanding of how to craft intuitive, impactful user workflows

Know how to balance user needs with business realities

Bring fresh perspectives to team discussions while remaining grounded in what's possible

Want to work with a talented team that celebrates our differences and enjoys solving problems together

What makes you RIGHT for this role:

You've spent 5-6+ years designing shipped, real-world digital products and have the portfolio to prove it

You work across the full design stack: product thinking, UX, and UI

You excel at solving complex problems and pride yourself on being highly self-sufficient

You're not a researcher, but you can conduct targeted, lightweight research, synthesize key insights, and apply it directly to your design decisions

Prior experience working with junior designers and providing thoughtful, constructive feedback that helps them grow

You're comfortable working in ambiguity and know how to create clarity from chaos by structuring problems, defining direction, and moving forward even when inputs are incomplete or evolving

You can switch contexts quickly and aren't precious about your work

You have strong opinions but hold them loosely

You use AI tools daily (Claude, Figma Make, Gemini, whatever fits the job) to prototype quickly and iterate without waiting for a dev cycle

You've designed for AI-assisted products and can talk through the UX tradeoffs

Nice-to-have (What will make you stand out):

A healthy skepticism of "best practices" and a willingness to question assumptions

Navigate and adapt to different working styles and personalities effectively

Designed for LLM powered interfaces: chat, copilots, background agents, or anything where the "UI" is partially the AI output

Experience with prototype creation using AI tools (vibe coding), enough to run your own ideation and testing without waiting for a developer

You're NOT a good fit for this role if:

You're mainly an executor and haven't set design direction across a full product line

You don't have experience designing for real products in real-world scenarios where users, business needs, and constraints shape the work

You've only worked in one product category and haven't handled multiple categories simultaneously

You're uncomfortable working fast, using AI, and making clear, opinionated design decisions at scale

What We Offer:

A team that trusts each other and values your ideas

Real problems to solve for real users

The freedom to shape how we work

A culture that embraces flexibility and creativity

We believe the best products come from diverse perspectives. If you're excited about building things that matter and want to have fun with great colleagues along the way, we'd love to hear from you.

You must be legally entitled to work in Canada to be considered for this position. Applications without a CV and portfolio will not be considered.