Sr. Product Designer - Toronto

GPTZero

$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of end-to-end product design experience
  • Strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design work
  • Ability to simplify complex systems for intuitive user experiences
  • Self-starter with rapid decision-making skills
  • Interest in AI-driven products, AI design experience preferred
  • Experience in early-stage or fast-growing startups

Responsibilities

  • Conduct user research with diverse user groups
  • Design engaging consumer experiences from initial concepts to final products
  • Collaborate closely with engineers to deliver high-quality experiences efficiently
  • Influence the design process as the team and product grow
  • Iterate designs based on real user feedback

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Hybrid work model with on-site lunch
  • Competitive equity as a founding member
  • Quarterly team retreats and offsite meetings
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Learning stipend and access to mentorship from industry experts
Full Job Description
What you'll do:
  • Conduct user research across our diverse users and customers, including students, educators, journalists, content creators, and more
  • Design consumer-facing experiences for new and existing features, from early concepts and user flows to high-fidelity mockups and shipped product
  • Partner closely with engineers to scope, iterate, and deliver high-quality experiences quickly
  • Help shape how design operates at GPTZero as the product and team scale


What we're looking for:
  • 5+ years of experience owning product design end-to-end.
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end, user-centered design work, from research and problem framing to iteration and polished, production-ready interfaces.
  • Proven ability to translate complex or technical systems into clear, intuitive user experiences.
  • High ownership mentality. You move quickly, make decisions with imperfect information, and iterate based on real user feedback.
  • Strong interest in AI-powered products. Experience designing AI systems is a plus.
  • Experience working at an early-stage or fast-scaling startup.


Who you'll join:

We're a small team. We value ownership, transparency, and listening to each other.

Everyone works and interacts with everyone. Everyone is free to attend meetings across product functions, whether it's diving into designs or dropping into our ML learning groups.

Here are some people you'll work closely with. You'll be meeting everyone.
  • Edward (CEO), data-powered investigative journalism at BBC and Bellingcat, threat intelligence at Microsoft, ML researcher at Princeton
  • Alex (CTO), Ph.D. dropout, R&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML, 2021 and 2019 Best ML Hack at Stanford
  • Ei Thazin (product designer), with experience at several high-growth B2C startups. She graduated from Stanford and instructed at the renown [d.school] at Stanford.
  • Olivia (product designer). She's also an artist, with her work previously shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and graduated from Princeton.
Our perks:
  1. Health, dental, and vision coverage
  2. Hybrid work in Downtown Office with lunch
  3. Competitive salary
  4. 🍰 Competitive equity for a founding team member
    • We are a cash-flow positive/profitable company experiencing exponential growth in multiple industries. We are open to sharing our growth metrics with applicants.
  5. Quarterly team retreats and offsites
  6. Flexible PTO
  7. Learning stipend, mentorship, and time with world-class advisors, including:

Tom Glocer (former CEO of Reuters, who recently reviewed the beta and is advising our product team on launching hallucination detection)

Russ Heddleston (CEO Docsend, our favorite GTM advisor who recently dropped into all-hands to share additional strategies for growing our self-serve GTM motion)

Ruslan Salakhutdinov (former director of AI at Apple, and current VP of Research for LLama, who meets monthly with our team to advise on AI model development)

Amy Saper (founding product marketer at Stripe, who offers time with our team on growth strategies)

Jack Altman (CEO of Lattice, brother of Sam Altman) on building great product culture

Mike Smith (COO Walmart.com, COO StitchFix) and Jeff Barrett CTO StitchFix, on scaling a great engineering team.

At GPTZero, our recruiting team is involved in every step of the hiring process. We use AI-based tools (such as Endorsed.ai and Juicebox.ai) to help us to accelerate candidates at the resume review stage by marking when candidates met certain key criteria. These tools are never the final say in a hiring decision - humans are.

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