About the Role
During this exciting phase of our growth, you'll play a huge role in shaping our culture, our process, and the future of Makeship. Every day, you'll collaborate, learn more about the content creation space, and watch your work impact the company and the community!
We want this to be the best work experience of your life, so we'll pay you well, offer great benefits, invest deeply in your growth, and welcome you with our branded swag. You will also be joining one of Canada's fastest-growing start-ups!
What We Are Looking For
We're looking for a Product Designer to create intuitive, valuable, and visually engaging experiences for fans looking to support the creators they love. Working within a cross-functional team alongside Product and Engineering, you'll play a key role across the full product development cycle, from problem discovery and solution design to validation and final execution. Balancing research, ideation, and high-fidelity execution, you'll focus on our fan-facing platform, ensuring every interaction is seamless, impactful, and aligned with Makeship's mission.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Design valuable and usable experiences from ideation through to production-ready designs
- Follow fundamentals of good UI design to create polished interfaces across all devices
- Base design decisions on layout, hierarchy, typography, colour, and motion with strong rationale
- Contribute to and help maintain our design system as the platform evolves
- Conduct user research and usability testing to validate assumptions and inform design decisions
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and brand to ship a cohesive, high-quality product
- Proactively identify usability issues, both small and large, and propose solutions
What You Bring
- 3+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of design solutions
- Experience with user research and usability testing techniques (e.g. user interviews, usability testing, assumption testing)
- Strong UI craft, with an eye for layout, typography, and visual polish
- Experience working within and contributing to a design system
- Comfort collaborating cross-functionally with product, engineering, and marketing
- Experience designing B2C products, ideally involving content discovery, browsing, or shopping-style experiences
Bonus
- Experience in e-commerce or crowdfunding
- Experience working in the creator economy
- Experience on a growth-focused team
- Familiarity with accessibility standards
Benefits & Perks
- Work remotely anywhere in Canada and/or access any of our hubs
- Health and dental benefits from day 1
- 4 weeks of paid vacation (including paid time off on your birthday)
- An additional 1 week of paid time off during the winter holidays
- Virtual & In-Person Social Events
- Annual Paid Volunteer Day Off
- 1:1 RRSP Matching Program Up to 3%
- $500 Pre-Tax Annual Health & Wellness Allowance
- $400 Pre-Tax Home Office Setup Allowance
- $65 Pre-Tax Monthly Phone Allowance
- Maternity and Parental Leave Top-Up Program
- Education Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Program
- Tenured Rewards Program
Salary Band: $85-100k CAD per annum. Individual salaries will be dependent on unique skills, experience and qualifications.
Vacancy Status: Existing vacancy
