Top Design Jobs in Ottawa

Lead and contribute to embedded software development for communication, networking, and video applications. Develop BSP software, device drivers, kernel configurations, and build systems for embedded Linux, RTOS, and bare-metal platforms. Integrate software with FPGA SoCs and hardware, debug using laboratory tools, define system architecture, and provide technical leadership and mentorship. Collaborate with clients and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver maintainable, high-quality products.

Designs and delivers complex high-speed electronic systems from architecture and schematic capture through prototype bring-up, validation, certification, and production support. Responsibilities include high-speed circuit and PCB design, simulations, signal-integrity collaboration, testing, documentation, customer support, and technical mentoring. The role requires expertise with FPGA-related hardware, advanced protocols, lab instrumentation, and tools including OrCAD/Cadence.

Design and deliver blended learning and performance solutions aligned with business priorities. Develop instructional frameworks, content maps, scripts, storyboards, prototypes, and learning programs across multiple delivery methods. Manage medium- to high-complexity projects, stakeholder engagement, quality standards, risks, evaluation plans, and maintenance strategies. Serve as an instructional design subject matter expert, apply accessibility and inclusion principles, monitor emerging practices, and support team knowledge development.

Designs and develops engaging, accessible learning solutions across digital, virtual, instructor-led, simulation, assessment, microlearning, and performance-support formats. Translates business requirements and complex subject matter into practical learning experiences using instructional design and adult learning principles. Collaborates with subject-matter experts, stakeholders, facilitators, technology partners, and risk teams; conducts quality assurance, supports implementation, measures effectiveness, and maintains learning assets. The role requires strong writing, project coordination, relationship management, accessibility awareness, and continuous improvement skills.

Design, simulate, optimize, and validate high-power RF amplifier solutions, including Doherty architectures, for wireless products. Responsibilities include component selection, RF schematic and board-level design, PCB layout review, laboratory testing, tuning, troubleshooting, and performance characterization. The role collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering teams, prepares technical documentation, supports product integration and qualification, and provides technical guidance to junior team members.

Own the technical implementation of gameplay-focused level actors, systems, and Blueprints in Unreal Engine 5 for a multiplayer game. The role bridges Level Design and Engineering, emphasizing network replication, performance, scalability, maintainability, reusable actors, technical standards, documentation, and workflow improvements. The successful candidate will review and improve Blueprints, translate design requirements into technical solutions, identify risks, and guide level designers on implementation decisions.

Design motion-forward visual experiences across product, web, email, lifecycle communications, and marketing. Create animations, illustrations, iconography, interaction patterns, prototypes, and reusable visual systems that improve comprehension and consistency. Own projects from concept through implementation, collaborate with product, engineering, brand, and marketing teams, and ensure assets are accessible, performant, and production-ready.

Design and present secure, scalable technology solutions for Canadian Federal public-sector customers. Lead discovery, architecture design, technical demonstrations, proposals, proof-of-concept activities, and technology roadmap development. Partner with account executives, Cisco specialists, partners, and customer stakeholders to address complex networking, security, data center, collaboration, observability, and AI infrastructure needs. Translate technical trade-offs into business value and guide customer technology decisions.

Leads UX strategy and high-profile design projects for cybersecurity software platforms. Responsibilities include user research, usability testing, ideation, wireframing, prototyping, interface design, design-system evolution, cross-functional workshops, and stakeholder collaboration. The role mentors UX designers, advocates for user-centered practices, improves scalable design processes, and supports product roadmap decisions. It also drives AI-enhanced design practices and produces developer-ready design outputs.

Own Hadrian’s visual brand as its first dedicated Brand Designer. Produce campaign, out-of-home, digital, recruiting, event, environmental, merchandise, and presentation assets while building a scalable brand system, templates, and design operating model. Direct external partners, art direct factory photography and video, ensure production quality, and establish the visual language for industrial manufacturing. Partner with marketing, communications, and talent brand teams to maintain consistency and support performance-driven creative.

Designs performance-driven email campaigns and automated flows for DTC brands, translating strategy into conversion-focused visual narratives. Collaborates with copywriters and strategists, contributes to A/B testing, builds modular systems in Figma, and ensures responsive, accessible, deliverable designs. The role also supports client onboarding, brand system setup, internal creative initiatives, and agency-wide design improvements in a fully remote environment.

Hands-on Brand Designer creating digital campaigns, web and social assets, event booths, printed collateral, and product graphics. The role applies visual identity systems across brand touchpoints, supports product design, coordinates event vendors, builds reusable templates, and experiments with AI and emerging tools. Candidates should have strong skills in layout, typography, color, composition, and visual production, with particular expertise in motion design, Framer, or illustration and iconography.

Creates brand identities, stylescapes, moodboards, brand books, and UI designs for client engagements. Uses Figma and generative AI tools to develop visual concepts, campaign assets, and production-ready interfaces. Leads brand workshops, presents creative rationale to stakeholders, collaborates with product designers and developers, and applies graphic design principles across typography, layout, color, and composition. Works in an agency or consulting environment across multiple concurrent projects.

Own complex Banking design initiatives from exploration through launch, including zero-to-one financial products and improvements to existing experiences. Set the quality bar for interaction, visual, and systems design while translating financial and regulatory complexity into clear, trustworthy experiences. Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Research; prototype with AI and emerging tools; shape product vision and design systems; and mentor designers through critique and hands-on example.

Own complex Banking design initiatives end to end, creating zero-to-one financial product experiences and improving existing products. Set the design quality bar, shape product vision and strategy, prototype with AI and emerging tools, and translate financial and regulatory complexity into clear experiences. Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Research while extending design systems and mentoring designers through critique, feedback, and hands-on example.

Lead end-to-end product design for Webflow’s Agentic CMS, shaping content authoring, governance, localization, and publishing across sites, channels, and AI agents. Partner with product managers, engineers, and researchers on content models, API affordances, and product strategy. Design coherent systems for complex enterprise workflows, create prototypes, execute detailed interaction and visual design, and influence senior stakeholders while advancing AI-assisted design practices.

Lead UX design strategy for complex, high-volume B2B insurance workflows. Responsibilities include user research, information architecture, interaction and visual design, design systems, facilitation, storytelling, implementation planning, stakeholder alignment, and mentoring. The role shapes product vision across multiple teams and ensures scalable, accessible, consistent user experiences with measurable business and user impact.

Develop and maintain reliable embedded software for spacecraft and ground systems. Build secure communications, device drivers, kernel modules, hardware interfaces, platform services, automated tests, and validation tools. Contribute to architecture, design and code reviews, debugging, performance improvements, and system reliability. Collaborate across software, hardware, and operations teams while providing technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.

Define Brain Co.’s motion vocabulary across brand, marketing, product demos, social, events, and film. Extend the visual identity into animation, establish product motion principles, create demos and films, and develop AI-assisted motion production workflows. This hands-on role requires producing finished work, building scalable motion systems, collaborating with product and brand designers, and defending creative decisions in critique.

Design sales enablement materials, including decks, one-pagers, and templates; contribute to the brand system; support campaigns, social, and events; collaborate with Sales, Product Marketing, and Customer Success; and build generative AI tools to scale brand work. The role requires strong editorial layout, typography, hierarchy, composition, project management, and collaboration skills.

Owns paid static creative for Kraken across launches, campaigns, promotions, and always-on marketing. Develops platform-native static and motion ads for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, and X; produces AI-assisted imagery and video; versions assets across markets and languages; interprets performance data to improve creative; and collaborates with marketing, compliance, and regional teams to deliver approved, high-quality work.

Staff Content Designer responsible for shaping investing product experiences, simplifying complex concepts such as options, margin trading, futures, and perpetuals. Partners early with product, design, engineering, marketing, brand, legal, and compliance teams. Develops content standards, workflows, templates, and AI-powered processes to scale quality. Requires strategic thinking, hands-on UX writing, mentorship, and the ability to become a subject matter expert. Applicants must submit a portfolio with at least three case studies demonstrating improved user experience and business outcomes.

Own and evolve the company’s visual identity across web, campaigns, social, sales collateral, events, and merchandise. Translate complex voice AI concepts into clear diagrams, illustrations, and marketing graphics. Build scalable brand systems, templates, and standards while partnering with product, marketing, and executive teams. Execute hands-on across digital, print, and experiential media with limited direction and high craft.

Designs and validates FPGA control and datapath logic for optical networking systems. Responsibilities include IP integration, simulation, verification, synthesis, timing and constraint optimization, automated lab testing, debugging, cross-functional integration, and technical documentation. The role collaborates with hardware, firmware, algorithms, and product verification teams to ensure system-level performance.

Create commercial-quality graphic assets for advertising and video production across mobile games, apps, and social platforms. Responsibilities include designing UI elements and visual materials, generating and refining assets with AI tools, maintaining consistency across creative variations, preparing layered files for animation, adapting designs for multiple formats, and collaborating with creative and production teams.