Senior Product Designer

Planitar; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits plan

Health & Dental coverage

Health Spending Account (HSA/LSA)

3% DPSP match

Hybrid Work Environment

Professional Development Incentive

Opportunity to grow with Planitar/REA

Global backing by REA Group

Job summary

Planitar seeks a Senior Product Designer to own the iGUIDE Portal and Viewer, guiding direction for two audiences—Residential Real Estate and Insurance/Restoration/Construction—while hands-on designing. You’ll shape a young design practice, extend a partial design system, and collaborate with engineering, product, and GTM teams, reporting to the design/product director.

You will lead research, drive usability testing, and influence roadmap decisions with evidence, balancing user needs with

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing digital products with craft and thinking behind it.
• You have owned a product area, not just a queue of features; work spanning multiple teams and >1 quarter.
• Strong Figma skills including components and prototyping; build and extend design systems.
• Run your own research and show a design changed by what you learned.
• Experience with complex or technical B2B software; dense data and real workflows.
• Designed for more than one kind of customer in a single product; know when to converge/diverge.
• Design for professionals and the public; portal is a working tool and viewer is consumer-facing.
• Mentored other designers and influenced senior stakeholders with a strong case.
• You ship and know when a design is ready to go.
• You want to help build a design practice rather than join one already running.

Responsibilities

• Learn how customers actually work on site and in the office to inform iGUIDE.
• Set the design direction for the portal and viewer for one to three quarters out.
• Keep portal coherent across two teams and decide when workflows should be shared or separated.
• Own the viewer design seen by property buyers/homeowners.
• Establish design patterns and extend the design system as you go.
• Plan and run research/usability testing; adjust designs/roadmaps from evidence.
• Navigate hard tradeoffs with engineers; stay involved during build to match intent.
• Make a data-driven case for user needs, even if it changes direction.
• Explain design impact on adoption, conversion, retention and cost-to-serve.
• Coach less experienced designers and help set team standards.
• Communicate with the rest of the company about design activity and rationale.
• Monitor post-launch performance and decide what to invest in next.

Skills

6+ years designing digital products

Own a product area

Figma skills

User research

B2B software experience

Multiple customer types

Professional and public audience

Mentor designers

Shipping product

Build design practice

Tools

Figma

Job description

At Planitar, we build technology that helps people see and understand the world’s spaces more clearly.

We are the creators of iGUIDE, a powerful property technology solution that combines immersive 3D tours, accurate floor plans and reliable spatial data into a single, easy-to-use system. Our cameras and software platform are used by professionals in real estate, insurance, construction and property management to simplify their work and deliver better results.

Planitar recently joined REA Group, one of the world’s leading digital property companies. REA operates Australia’s largest residential and commercial property platforms, including realestate.com.au and has a growing global footprint across Asia and North America. Together, we are shaping the future of property technology, combining Planitar’sdeep spatial data expertise with REA’s global scale and innovation engine.

OURVISION

Aconnectedfuturewherereliablespatialdataenablesinformeddecisionsacrossthepropertylifecycle.

OURVALUES

• Integrity:Wedotherightthingevenwhenit’shard.
• Teamwork:Weareoneteam,onabigmission.
• Innovation:Wevaluecreativesolutionsforemergingopportunities.
• Accountability:Wehonourourcommitments.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Senior Product Designer, you own design for the iGUIDE Portal (where customers manage projects, capture data, orders, and publishing) and the iGUIDE Viewer (the customer-facing 3D tour/floor plan experience embedded in it). You set the direction for both over the next few quarters and do the hands‑on work yourself.

You’ll design for two engineering teams with different audiences sharing one portal — Residential Real Estate (agents, photographers, listing integrations) and Insurance/Restoration/Construction (adjusters, estimators, builders, drafters). Your job is to serve both well without letting the product fragment into two separate tools. These users are hands‑on, in‑the‑field, heavy daily users who’ll give you direct feedback.

Design here is still young — just two designers, a partially‑built design system, and evolving processes — so you’ll have more influence over how design works, but also more foundational work to do. The team is expected to use AI tools to speed up discovery (mockups, research synthesis, testing) and move from idea to user feedback in days, not weeks. You’ll collaborate with engineering, product, and go‑to‑market, reporting to the director who oversees both design and product management.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You own portal and viewer design from research through to what ships and what changes afterward. You will set the approach on work that can span both teams and sometimes takesmore than a quarter to land, see the risks early, and keep things moving when priorities shift.

In this role, you will:

• Learn how your customers actually work, on site and in the office, and what they need from iGUIDE
• Set the design direction for the portal and the viewer one to three quarters out
• Keep the portal coherent as two teams ship for two different audiences, and decide when a workflow should be shared and when a vertical genuinely needs its own
• Own the design of the viewer, which is the part of our product that property buyers and homeowners actually see
• Establish the design patterns for the portal and extend the design system as you go
• Plan and run your own research and usability testing, and use what you learn to change designs, and roadmaps when the evidence is strong enough
• Work the hard tradeoffs through with engineers, and stay involved during the build so what ships matches the intent
• Make the case for users with evidence, including when it means changing a direction the team has already committed to
• Understand how your design decisions move adoption, conversion, retention and cost to serve, and defend your recommendations in those terms, including when the best experience is not the best business decision
• Long term opportunities to coach less experienced designers, review their work, and help set the standard for the team
• Tell the rest of the company what design is doing and why, without waiting to be asked
• Watch how the work performs after launch and decide what to invest in further, fix, or drop

QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years designing digital products, with a portfolio that shows craft and the thinkingbehind it
• You have owned a product area, not only a queue of features. Work that spannedseveral teams and took more than a quarter to land
• Strong Figma skills, including component systems and prototyping, and you build andextend design systems
• You run your own research, and can point to a design that changed because of whatyou learned
• Experience with complex or technical B2B software. Dense data, real workflows,expert users
• You have designed for more than one kind of customer in a single product, and have aview on when to converge and when to diverge
• Comfortable designing for professionals and for the public. The portal is a workingtool; the viewer is seen by consumers
• You have mentored other designers, and changed a senior stakeholder's mind bymaking a good case
• You ship, and you have a view on when a design is good enough to go
• You want to help build a design practice rather than join one that already runs itself

WHY WORK AT PLANITAR

We’re in an exciting phase of growth; evolving our technology, expanding globally and scaling our operations. This is your opportunity to shape the future of property technology alongside a talented, driven team.

PERKSANDBENEFITS:

• 100%employer-paidflexiblebenefitsplan
• ComprehensiveHealth&Dentalcoverage
• HealthSpendingAccount(HSA)orLifestyleSpendingAccount(LSA)options
• 3%DPSPmatch
• HybridWorkEnvironment
• Professional Development Incentive
• Opportunitiestogrowaswescale
• ThebackingofaglobalindustryleaderthroughREAGroup

ACCESSIBILITY,INCLUSION&AIDISCLOSURE

Planitar is committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where different perspectives are valued and everyone has the opportunity to thrive. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences. Please note this is a back fill position.

We are committed to providing an accessible recruitment process in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). If you require accommodation at any stage of the hiringprocess, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

In alignment with Ontario legislative requirements, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in a limited capacity to assist with summarizing interview notes after interviews have been conducted. We do not use AI to screen, assess or make hiring decisions about candidates. All application reviews and hiring decisions are made by our team. Please note this posting is for a new vacancy.

Thank you for your interest in Planitar. Due to the volume of applications we receive, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.