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Lead Product Designer

Format, a 27-person team based in Toronto, is seeking a Lead Product Designer (Remote applicants are welcome).

We’re looking for an experienced product designer to lead our high-performing design team in building incredible products for creative professionals around the world. As a successful product design lead, you will be responsible for mentoring the product design team while ensuring that the design and experience of our products is among the best in the world.

This position requires an innovative designer, a decisive product owner, a helpful mentor, a team player, and a skilled communicator — all rolled into one. Hands-on design skills, a thorough understanding of web and mobile applications, and excellent leadership skills are all essential for this role.

What we’d like to see in our ideal candidate:

  • You have a strong design portfolio demonstrating thoughtful interactions and stunning visuals across web and mobile applications—not just static websites.
  • You have experience creating interfaces, large-scale digital experiences, or applications, and know the difference between “good” and “amazing” design solutions.
  • You have a successful track record leading design teams. You inspire passion, dedication, and killer work from others.
  • You are eager to contribute to high-level strategic decisions and collaborating with the rest of the product team.

What you’ll be working on at Format:

  • Creating products that are used by and influence tens of thousands of photographers, designers, artists, and other creatives around the world
    • Building a product that directly impacts the careers of fellow creative professionals is a rewarding challenge. By joining Format, you will have the unique opportunity to design for users whom you truly understand.
  • Innovating with new features and improvements to Format.com, our flagship platform
    • We’re constantly seeking to improve our product and many of our best ideas have originated from within the team. As a product lead, you will initiate brainstorming and conversations with the team, and roll up your sleeves to bring design solutions to life.
  • Working closely with multidisciplinary team members on new Format features and projects
    • You will be working hands-on with senior engineers, front-end developers, and designers on a wide variety of projects. We work in small teams using an agile methodology, encouraging strong collaboration between team members.
  • Mentoring, growing and guiding the product design team
    • You will work with each designer to develop their skills and encourage them to excel. Overall, you will challenge the team to think beyond the expected. You will also be responsible for growing the product design team as our company grows and should feel comfortable engaging the international product design community.
  • Shaping the Format brand as it relates to to our products
    • Aside from the product itself, you will also be contributing to the direction of our company as a whole through through branding, research, strategy development, and product definition.
  • Help produce creative projects that inspire and give back to the community
  • Participating in design explorations around Format Themes
    • Themes are an integral part of our product. While you will not be directly working to build them, you will contribute essential and critical feedback to the design and development team.
  • Use industry leading tools to simplify and improve your workflow
    • We are always on the look out for tools and resources that speed up our workflow and simplify our lives. Tools being used by the Format design team include: Sketch, Invision, Adobe CC, Github, Dropmark, Asana, Framer JS, Origami, Mailchimp, Litmus, Hipchat

About Format

We are a proudly self-funded company, which helps us ensures that the products we create are the best possible solutions for our end users. Across design, technology, communication, and customer support, our entire team is focused on a common goal: building amazing tools to help propel the careers of creative professionals around the world.

Our Toronto post-and-beam office in Liberty Village is designed to cultivate teamwork. Everyone has a new desk equipped with an Aeron chair and top-notch Apple gear. We cater free lunches on Mondays, and have an in-office coffee subscription for all-you-can-drink espresso.

We understand that your happiness determines the quality of your work — don’t expect any late nights or working weekends here (unless it’s your choice). We offer competitive salaries, a yearly bonus pool, very flexible vacation time, and put an incredible amount of effort into building an office culture that we all want to be a part of, and celebrate our accomplishments as a team.

How to Apply

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* We will consider remote candidates for this position.

Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No recruiters, please.