Principal Product Designer

At LumiQ, we’re on a mission to make professional education enjoyable. As a modern, audio-first learning platform, we empower accounting and finance professionals to fulfill their continuing professional development requirements through engaging podcasts. Over the past five years, we’ve cultivated a devoted customer base of over 1,000 corporate and accounting firms across North America. 

LumiQ is proud to be a 2025 Deloitte Fast 50 winner . We’re creating awesome proprietary content, nailing our go-to-market strategy, and being the first to shake up the industry. Most recently, we secured a strategic investment from Vertu Capital to fuel our expansion globally and continue executing on our exponential growth plans.

LumiQ is also a certified Great Place to Work! We’re all about transparency, ownership, innovation, and empathy. If you’re ready to make a real impact and help us transform professional education, we’d love to hear from you!

If you’re excited to make a real impact and help transform the future of professional education, we’d love to meet you. As a Senior Product Designer , you’ll play a key role in shaping the next generation of our learning platform and delivering experiences that delight thousands of users every day.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end design lifecycle — research, IA, flows, prototyping, visual design, and handoff.
• Lead the evolution of LumiQ’s design system in Figma, including components, variables, tokens, and Storybook integration.
• Elevate product usability across mobile and web , applying modern interaction design and mobile-first principles.
• Craft visually stunning, storytelling-driven interfaces , with strong mastery of typography, iconography, layout, and motion.
• Leverage AI toolsets (including custom GPT workflows) to accelerate exploration, generate concepts, and enhance creativity.
• Build high-fidelity prototypes to clearly communicate ideas to stakeholders and engineers.
• Mentor and collaborate with other product and visual designers , helping elevate the design craft and uplevel the broader design team.
• Collaborate closely with our visual design and marketing teams to ensure brand consistency and elevate the quality of our product’s visual expression.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, marketing team, content team, and leadership to ensure cohesive and user-centered experiences.
• Champion design quality and thinking across the organization, raising the bar for craft and supporting the growth of our design practice.
• Stay current on design trends, tools, and emerging technologies , bringing fresh thinking to LumiQ’s product evolution.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of product design experience with a portfolio showcasing real web and mobile product work.
• Advanced expertise in Figma , with hands-on experience building scalable design systems, variables, and Storybook alignment.
• Deep knowledge of information architecture, interaction design, and responsive design .
• Strong visual design and motion design craft.
• Experience using AI tooling (e.g., custom GPTs, image generation, workflow automation) to enhance design processes.
• Strong research skills, with experience conducting interviews, usability tests, and synthesizing insights.
• Ability to operate in lean, fast-paced, ambiguous environments and make informed decisions quickly.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and articulate rationale clearly.
• Strong organizational skills and comfort managing multiple projects simultaneously.

Bonus Points:

• Experience in edtech, audio products, or content-rich digital platforms.
• Familiarity with analytics, experimentation, or product metrics.
• Motion/animation prototyping skills (After Effects, Rive, Protopie, etc.).
• Experience in early stage startup or scale-up environments.

The expected base salary for this position is: CAD $150,000 - $170,000. Salary is based on a number of factors including market conditions, location and may vary depending on job-related skills and experience.

If you think your experience is most of the way there we’d still love to meet you! 

Please note this is a flexible hybrid role based out of Toronto, Canada. Employees will be expected to be able to commute to the office 1-2 times a week. However, for training & onboarding purposes, the in-office expectation time will increase.

Benefits and Perks:

- Health Benefits are available after 3 months with us, including a yearly health spending account. You'll also have access to an Employee Assistance Program for additional support if needed.

- Hybrid Work Style: The best of both worlds. Enjoy remote work and a downtown Toronto office with snacks, events, and ping pong.

- Monthly team social events: (Super Smash Bro party, hot chocolate bar, Blue Jays game, Hot One's Challenge are just a few examples of what we have done in the past).

- Schedule flexibility: We know our employees have lives outside of work and don’t mind if you need to run to a mid-day doctor's appointment or pick up a kid early from school!

- Nomad policy: Work remotely 4 weeks of the year from anywhere in the world.

- Endless Learning: Our platform isn't just for accountants. Listen to podcasts on soft skills, career development, leadership, and more.

-LumiQ Clubs: Join an existing club or start your own!

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.