Product Designer

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Ratehub.ca

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Finance • Fintech • Marketplace

Ratehub. ca is a Canadian online platform that provides a comprehensive suite of financial comparison tools and services. It helps Canadians compare and find the best rates for mortgages, credit cards, savings accounts, investments, and various insurance products. With a focus on transparency and education, Ratehub. ca offers calculators and resources to guide consumers in making informed financial decisions. The platform has won multiple awards for its excellence in mortgage brokerage, having funded over $16 billion in mortgages. Ratehub. ca partners with financial institutions and is compensated through advertisements and customer referrals, although not all listed products are tied to compensation.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2010

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

🏪 Marketplace

💰 $12M Series A on 2018-01

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end design process, from research and ideation to prototyping, validating, and delivering high-impact product experiences that help our users make smart financial decisions. • Act as the voice of the customer, using research, usability testing, A/B testing, and other analytical tools to understand and validate ideas, problems, and solutions, ensuring every decision delivers measurable value to users. • Partner with product, engineering, data, marketing, and content teams to translate ideas into meaningful, user-centered experiences. • Design responsive and consistent experiences across mobile and desktop. • Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure design feasibility, high-fidelity implementation, and visual and functional accuracy in the final product. • Contribute to product roadmaps and sprint planning alongside product and engineering teams. • Build and maintain design backlogs, and help shape design strategy for the next 6–24 months. • Support additional design needs from content and marketing initiatives across Ratehub and MoneySense. • Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to align on goals, gather requirements, and co-create solutions. • Communicate design concepts and rationale clearly and persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership. • Build and maintain scalable design systems and style guides to ensure consistency across products. • Ensure all designs meet accessibility standards (WCAG) and deliver inclusive user experiences. • Stay current with industry trends, tools, and best practices to continuously improve design processes and methodologies.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of product design experience, with a strong portfolio showcasing responsive designs for web and mobile platforms. • Proven ability to own the end-to-end design process: user research, ideation, prototyping, UX/UI design, and usability testing. • Strong UX and UI design skills, with excellent attention to detail and a deep understanding of how to craft intuitive, impactful user experiences. • High proficiency with Figma. • Proven ability to leverage both quantitative and qualitative data to validate design decisions, with proficiency in usability testing tools (e.g., usertesting.com, Maze) and analytics tools (e.g., Heap, Hotjar) • Highly organized and self-sufficient, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects under tight deadlines in a fast-paced, agile environment. • Skilled at breaking down complex problems into simple, intuitive solutions and iterating quickly based on feedback. • Demonstrated experience building and maintaining scalable, component-based design systems using modern design principles. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to present design rationale and align cross-functional stakeholders. • Bias toward action — balancing quality and speed, knowing when to dive deep and when to move quickly. • Comfortable with ambiguity and experienced in designing 0→1 products and features. • Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence. • Post-secondary degree, diploma, or certificate in UX Design or a related field. • Nice-to-haves: Experience working with Storybook or Wordpress. • Basic understanding of front-end development (HTML, CSS, Javascript). • Experience designing for customer-facing financial services products.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary: We know it’s expensive to live/work in Canada • Remote-first organization: we love opportunities to get together as a team, but for the most part we offer our employees the flexibility to work anywhere in Canada • Flexible hours: Enjoy a couple more hours of sleep in the morning, if you want • Benefits: Health is wealth! A benefits package with no employee contribution required • Perks: RRSP matching program, individual training allowance, fun team socials (remote AND in-person) and more!