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— Steve Jobs
Product Designer (2 month contract) (Remote)
Policyme • Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
The Product Designer will deliver design work end-to-end, including research, wireframes, prototypes, and usability testing. They will partner with product managers and engineers to define problems and ship solutions that balance usability with business needs.
Responsibilities
- Delivering design work end-to-end: research, wireframes, prototypes, usability testing, and polished high-fidelity designs.
- Running focused, lightweight research to quickly surface customer insights (interviews, journey mapping, competitor reviews).
- Partnering closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to define problems and ship solutions that balance usability with business needs.
- Supporting key initiatives such as optimizing existing flows, refining landing pages, or contributing to upcoming launches.
- Using our design system to keep work consistent and scalable, while suggesting improvements and creating new components where needed.
- Participating in essential team check-ins (design reviews, stand-ups, retros) to stay aligned and keep projects moving.
- Clearly communicating design choices and progress, keeping stakeholders in the loop as you work.
- Balancing speed and quality - delivering quickly while iterating based on feedback.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing digital products with a strong portfolio that demonstrates elegant solutions to complex problems.
- Strength in visual design, interaction design, and information architecture.
- Experience moving quickly from research to design to iteration.
- Ability to gather or synthesize user insights to inform decisions.
- Comfort working in Figma and with existing design systems.
- Strong communication skills—you can explain your thinking and align with both designers and non-designers.
- A flexible, pragmatic approach—able to deliver high-impact design in a short time frame.
Benefits
- Be part of a fast-moving startup that’s modernizing insurance in Canada.
- Work on meaningful projects with immediate impact on customer experience and business outcomes.
- Collaborate with an empathetic, high-performing team that values clear communication, ownership, and results.
- Gain exposure to a cross-functional environment, working alongside Product, Growth, and Engineering leaders.
- Flexibility to work remotely from anywhere in Canada!
About Policyme
Most insurers know you as a policy number. We know you as Sarah, Dave, or Amir—humans with lives more complicated than terms and conditions. So when things go sideways, we reach for common sense. Because loyalty is earned by being the first to say, “Let’s make this right.” Our mission is to reinvent insurance for Canadians by merging smart technology with unwavering humanity–driving down costs, simplifying protection, and prioritizing your needs at every step.
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