Hybrid Product Designer

at Financeit

• Job title: Product Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: CA$90,000 - CA$105,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: React
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Product Designer at Financeit creating engaging user experiences for fintech solutions. Collaborating with teams to enhance product offerings with a strong emphasis on user-centric design.

Responsibilities

• Actively contribute at every stage of the project lifecycle, collaborating with the project team to brainstorm concepts, develop creative solutions, and design user flows while meeting deadlines.
• Own core component libraries to evolve the Centah design system, driving the design, specification, and maintenance of complex UI components, ensuring they meet the highest standards of craft and usability.
• Champion visual quality and craft, ensuring that every component—from buttons to complex data tables—is polished, accessible, and aligned with our brand identity.
• Demonstrate curiosity about user behavior and leverage quantitative and qualitative research to inform product and design decisions.
• Work closely with product stakeholders refining requirements, performing user interviews and running internal feedback sessions to find opportunities for usability improvement within the platform.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure technical feasibility, accepting input and feedback from different groups and making occasional compromises to deliver high-quality products on time.
• Prioritize UX debt by understanding complex information architecture and system mapping.
• Synthesizing requirements from many sources into elegant succinct designs.

Requirements

• A portfolio of high-caliber work that showcases your design process from initial research to high-fidelity, responsive design.
• Expertise in modern Figma workflows (Auto-layout, Components, Variants, Properties) which enables building libraries and components that are easy for other designers to use.
• Disciplined organizational skills in both work prioritization and approach to figma file structure.
• Outstanding visual design skills with an eye for typography, layout, and hierarchy that demonstrates care for the details.
• Outstanding presentation and communication skills that help cross-functional teams understand the purpose behind designs.
• Demonstrated ability to identify gaps in systems and propose solutions without waiting to be asked.
• Fair grasp of how designs are implemented in code (HTML/CSS/React/Mobile) and can communicate effectively with developers about constraints and trade-offs.

Benefits

• An award-winning culture with a collaborative & inclusive team.
• Competitive pay and performance-based bonus.
• Base salary: $90,000 - $105,000
• Annual bonus: 20%
• Committed to flexible work arrangements, offering hybrid workplace options.
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage + Lifestyle Account.
• RRSP Matching and Parental Leave Top UP Program.
• In office massage & workout sessions.
• Virtual events such as Lunch & Learns, company parties, fun team activities and charity initiatives.
• Career learning and development programs.