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Product Design Manager
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Location: Toronto, Ontario
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #18461

Manager, Product Design

Location: North York (Hybrid – 3 days/week in office)
Salary: $160,000–$180,000 base

We’re looking for a design-driven people leader to guide a high-performing team of product designers building modern, customer-facing digital experiences. This is a unique opportunity to step into a highly autonomous environment where design is becoming a key strategic driver of the business.

The Team & Culture

You’ll lead a core team of 4–5 end-to-end Product Designers, each owning work across the full spectrum of product design — from UX logic and interaction design through content and high-fidelity visual execution.

The team operates in a fast-paced, modern, design-forward culture that values experimentation over heavy process. We’re looking for someone with an innovative, “edgy” approach — not overly traditional or reliant on conventional usability playbooks.

The Role

This is a hybrid leadership position, with an approximate split of:

  • 65% people leadership and strategic direction

  • 35% hands-on product design contribution

You’ll be expected to elevate design craft across the team while still maintaining strong individual execution skills, particularly in visual design and product polish.

Product & Platform Focus

The organization is in the midst of a major platform evolution, including:

  • Phasing out legacy products

  • Supporting an ecosystem of roughly four active platforms

  • Driving modernization of the mobile experience

  • Rebuilding performance foundations in close partnership with engineering

This leader will play a key role in shaping the next generation of these experiences. The design system is currently in a transitional state and there is strong opportunity to unify and mature design consistency over time.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Design works extremely closely with Product and Engineering in a truly collaborative model — moving away from waterfall delivery toward a more integrated, design-led approach.

Past friction due to engineering constraints has largely been addressed through rebuilding efforts, creating a strong foundation for design innovation going forward.

What We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate brings:

  • Exceptional product design craft and creativity

  • Passion and curiosity that inspires teams

  • Comfort adopting and leveraging AI tools throughout the design workflow

  • 2+ years of people management experience

  • A collaborative, design-led leadership style that thrives in high-autonomy environments

Experience in fast-paced SaaS or fintech environments is strongly preferred. 

AI as a Core Expectation

AI is a key part of the future design workflow here. Designers are already doubling productivity through emerging tools, and this role will help define what meaningful “AI integration in design” looks like — balancing speed and innovation with thoughtful customer experience.

Why Join

  • Highly autonomous, experimental design culture

  • Company shift from engineering-led to design-led product thinking

  • Access to world-class creative resources (3D artists, sound design, filmmakers, etc.)

  • Unlimited investment in UX research

  • Freedom to try new approaches without heavy bureaucracy

If you’re excited to lead a high-impact design team and help shape the future of modern digital product experiences, we’d love to hear from you.

Contact Us.

At Creative Niche, we’re committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces, both within our own team and for the clients we serve. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, identities, and abilities. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we’ll work with you to meet your needs.
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Creative Niche was founded on land that is the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples from across Turtle Island. We acknowledge that we are all treaty people and accept our responsibility to honour all our relations.

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Creative Niche was founded on land that is the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples from across Turtle Island. We acknowledge that we are all treaty people and accept our responsibility to honour all our relations.

To recognize the land is an expression of gratitude and appreciation to those whose territory we reside on, and a way of honouring the Indigenous people who have been living and working on the land from time immemorial. Land acknowledgements do not exist in a past tense, or historical context: colonialism is current and ongoing, and we need to centre reconciliation in our actions and in our work. We encourage our team, partners, and clients to learn about the lands in which they live and to work towards reconciliation.

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Creative Niche was founded on land that is the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples from across Turtle Island. We acknowledge that we are all treaty people and accept our responsibility to honour all our relations.

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Creative Niche was founded on land that is the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples from across Turtle Island. We acknowledge that we are all treaty people and accept our responsibility to honour all our relations.

To recognize the land is an expression of gratitude and appreciation to those whose territory we reside on, and a way of honouring the Indigenous people who have been living and working on the land from time immemorial. Land acknowledgements do not exist in a past tense, or historical context: colonialism is current and ongoing, and we need to centre reconciliation in our actions and in our work. We encourage our team, partners, and clients to learn about the lands in which they live and to work towards reconciliation.

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