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Product Design Lead
Toronto
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 25 days ago
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About the role
- As a Product Design Lead, you'll play a critical role in orchestrating complex design projects from start to finish while providing leadership and oversight to design teams.
- You will help drive design innovation, mentor team members, and contribute to the growth of the design practice through leadership.
- Reporting into the Experience team, you will be responsible for managing multiple client engagements and accounts, leading UX/Creative/Design System efforts, and ensuring high-quality design deliverables align with project objectives and client brand guidelines.
Responsibilities
- Design Leadership & Execution
- Lead and support design teams in creating high-quality screen designs and prototypes for multiple products and client engagements.
- Ensure final design deliverables meet APPLY's quality standards and align with client brand guidelines
- Lead conversations about design deliverables and their creation, implementation, and maintenance
- Create, edit, and follow brand, UX and design systems best practices without support, establishing frameworks for team consistency
- Lead design system work, including handoff processes and clear documentation to ensure consistency and scalability across teams.
- Translate metrics into design decisions, using data insights to guide scope adjustments and product direction.
- Manage team priorities and timelines, ensuring tasks are delivered on time and aligned with business goals.
- Manage multiple client engagements and accounts simultaneously
- Lead significant client-facing projects and meetings with autonomy
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in UI/UX design, with demonstrated progression in leadership roles
- Experience working within agentic frameworks e.g. BMAD
- Expert proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Gemini, Claude, Lovable and other industry-standard design and AI tools
- Experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with developers, strategists, product managers and project managers
- Demonstrated ability to exercise wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments
- Accelerate your professional growth with generous training budgets and mentorship, with a specific focus on Agentic AI expertise and the critical human skills required for the future of work.
- AI & Strategic Upskilling: Accelerate your professional growth with generous training budgets and mentorship, with a specific focus on Agentic AI expertise and the critical human skills required for the future of work.
Nice to have
- Experience in digital agency, consultancy, or transformation environment
- Knowledge of front-end technologies and technical constraints
- Experience with enterprise-level design systems and multi-platform design
- Background in user research and testing methodologies
- Experience in Agile teams, supporting iterative delivery and cross-functional collaboration
Skills
- Broaden your skills on a range of engagements with international brands that have a global impact.
Benefits
- Tailor your extended health and dental plan to your needs, priorities, and preferences.
- Learn more in our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) section.
- We provide you with modern tools, systems and approaches, value your time, safety, and health, and strive to build a work community where you can thrive and grow.
- Here are a few benefits we offer to support you: Agentic Delivery: Our people work in a modern way to deliver client outcomes.
- Generous vacation policy: Work-life balance is key to our team's success, so we offer flexible personal time off (PTO); allowing ample time away from work to promote overall well-being.
- We bring together deep domain expertise across Retail, CPG, Sports, and Media with AI-native delivery capability, designing and delivering agentic solutions that turn CX vision into commercial reality.
- Flexible work arrangements: We work in a variety of ways, from remote, to in-office, to a blend of both.
Company info
- We are committed to
- APPLY People are at the core of everything we do at APPLY.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity and fostering a workplace where everyone belongs.
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