Design
Product Designer
Design the interface small business owners rely on — and the marketing that gets them there.
- Location
- Ottawa, Canada · Hybrid (2 days in office)
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid to senior · 3+ years
- Salary band
- CA$85,000 – CA$120,000
Our users are not designers, developers or analysts. They run cafés, trades, clinics and two-person agencies, and they open our dashboard between other jobs. If a screen needs explaining, it has failed.
This role owns product design for COVIS Pulse and the design of the client work we ship. You will work directly with engineering — often pairing — rather than throwing files over a wall.
What you’ll do
- Own the end-to-end design of features in COVIS Pulse, from the problem statement through to the built result in the browser.
- Maintain and extend the design system so that a screen built without you still looks like it belongs.
- Design client projects — websites, brand systems, product interfaces — inside a five-day delivery window.
- Sit with real users. We would rather you spent an afternoon in a client's shop than a day refining a prototype.
- Hold the quality line. You will be the person who says a screen is not ready, and we will back you.
What we need from you
- Three or more years designing digital products, with a portfolio showing shipped work and the reasoning behind it — not just final screens.
- Fluency in Figma, including components, variables and a maintained system.
- Genuine typographic and layout skill. We care about optical detail: measure, rhythm, tracking, hierarchy.
- You can read and write enough HTML and CSS to communicate precisely with engineers and to check what shipped matches what you designed.
- Comfortable presenting and defending work to clients and to the team.
- Legally able to work in Canada.
Nice to have, not required
- You have designed data-dense interfaces — dashboards, admin tools, reporting.
- Motion and interaction design skills.
- Brand identity experience beyond digital.
- You can build your own prototypes in code.
On degrees
No degree required. A design degree is useful and clearly not necessary — several of the best designers we have worked with came from architecture, print, or nowhere in particular. Show us the portfolio.
Application
Apply for Product Designer
Drop in your resume and we’ll fill in what we can read from it. Correct anything we got wrong, add what’s missing, and send.