Role Title: Senior Product Designer (Contract, Remote)
Location: Remote
Time Commitment: 10-40 hours/month
Compensation: $60-$110 CAD/hour
Role Summary
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the translation of client expectations and product requirements into validated, production-ready interface systems that reduce user friction and enable efficient, confident implementation by the design team for our clients. You’ll collaborate with Project Management and the Design team to translate strategy into impact. You’ll lead the end-to-end design process from discovery through to developer handoff, ensuring design direction is clearly defined and validated with stakeholders. Success in this role means the implementation of design systems by the team with minimal ambiguity or rework, resulting in measurable improvements in usability, feature clarity, or task efficiency within the client product. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ownership-driven roles and complex technical domains.
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Role & Responsibilities
Strategy & Discovery
- Project Scoping: Assesses what needs to happen and defines the design engagement approach.
- Discovery Facilitation: Runs workshops to understand client needs, goals and existing product.
- User Research: Conducts interviews to gather stakeholder/user feedback on product.
- Competitive/Inspirational Analysis: Focuses on UX patterns, product design, and interaction trends.
- Reverse Brief: Synthesizes findings into a brief for client validation.
Analysis & Architecture
- Design Audit: Reviews existing style guides, components, and screens to plan next steps.
- Pain Point Analysis: Analyzes product pain points to prioritize design effort.
- User Flow Mapping: Maps user flows to understand behaviour and identify friction.
- Feature Recommendation: Pulls together feature/functionality recommendations from research.
- Prioritization/Sizing: Categorizes improvements by effort, impact, and cost.
Design Execution
- Design Direction: Makes major design decisions on style guide, key screens, and improvements.
- Wireframing: Creates wireframes to establish product structure and flows.
- UI Design: Designs high-fidelity screens with full visual system.
- Data Visualization/Information Design: Designs dashboards, telemetry views, and data-dense interfaces for technical users.
- Responsive Adaptation: Translates designs across breakpoints for all devices.
- Brand Compliance Checking: Ensures design deliverables adhere to brand and style guidelines.
Delivery & Governance
- Stakeholder Alignment: Creates buy-in and ensures stakeholders understand direction and their role.
- Component Delegation: Hands off secondary components and screens to broader design team.
- Client Presentation: Presents design rationale, ties decisions back to discovery findings.
- Feedback Interpretation: Interprets client feedback and amends design work accordingly.
- Developer Handoff: Prepares annotated files, assets and documentation for dev team.
- Design QA: Reviews dev build against design specs, logs visual discrepancies.
Must-Have Attributes
These must-have attributes reflect how we operationalize our #CRFT values in our day-to-day work.
- High Attention to Detail: You review and test your work before it goes live. You take pride in accuracy and quality.
- Systems Thinking: You ask why things work the way they do and look for better ways to structure them. You can turn ambiguity into clear, repeatable workflows.
- Clear Written Communication: You communicate clearly and document your thinking so others can follow it. You share context, not just conclusions.
- Tool Fluency and Adaptability: You proactively learn new tools and adapt when systems evolve. You do not resist change simply because it is new.
- Accountability: You own your outcomes. When issues arise, you surface them early and work toward resolution rather than deflecting responsibility.
- Comfort With Ambiguity: You stay steady when direction is evolving. You ask thoughtful questions and move work forward without waiting for perfect clarity.
- Deadline Ownership: You follow through. You manage your time effectively and deliver on commitments, even in a flexible environment.
About Redstamp
Redstamp (Red Stamp Agency Inc.) was founded in 2011 by Kelso Kennedy and Spencer Ririe. These two creatively passionate leaders guide a team of developers, designers, marketers, and more. Redstampers (that’s what we call ourselves) embody our CRFT values; we are all: #curious #resourceful #fair #tenacious. We believe that thoughtful systems design is just as creative as visual design and that great operations can elevate every part of a business. If that sounds like your kind of work, we’d love to hear from you.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Redstamp welcomes all applicants regardless of race, gender, orientation, sexual identity, economic class, ability, disability, age, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, or status. We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. Our team is geographically distributed.
Application Details
We’re approaching this hire differently, reaching out personally to a small group of designers whose work stands out to us. From there, conversations will unfold directly with one of our founders.
Apply Here: TBA
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