Top Design Jobs in Ottawa

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.

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.

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.

Designs and implements live-ops events and content for a mobile game, including balancing systems, analyzing player feedback and metrics, improving design tools, and collaborating across disciplines. Creates new event types, prototypes features, writes design documentation and user stories, leads brainstorming, and advocates for player-focused design. The role requires strong game systems, content, narrative, math, balancing, pacing, and mobile gaming expertise.

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.

Develops seasonal trend directions, color palettes, and concept themes for fashion and home categories. Conducts consumer, competitive, and retail trend research; creates presentations and tools to guide buyers and product development; collaborates with vendors and internal partners; monitors trend adoption and customer response; and improves trend-development processes. The role requires strong visual communication, presentation, analytical, and market research skills, with significant monthly-to-quarterly travel across North America and overseas.

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.

Design and develop learner-centered solutions across eLearning, blended learning, microlearning, and live facilitation formats. Translate client requirements into learning objectives, content outlines, and storyboards; conduct user research and usability testing; create content with eLearning and creative tools; collaborate with strategists, developers, and project managers; track timelines and stakeholder communication; and perform quality checks on learning deliverables.

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.

Lead UX/UI design for mobile games: create flows, wireframes, Figma prototypes, design systems, visual assets, and Unity implementations. Conduct research and testing, collaborate with art and engineering, mentor UX staff, and own UX across multiple feature pods to deliver engaging, usable game experiences.

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.

Design and deliver integrated electrical systems for building projects, including lighting, power, security, fire alarm, communications, and data systems. Prepare BIM models and engineering drawings in Revit, apply electrical codes, assist with engineering studies and construction documents, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams throughout project phases from concept through completion.

Creates production-ready graphic designs for secure documents such as driver licences, identification cards, travel documents, and banknotes. Applies graphic design, typography, layout, colour theory, print production, and AI-assisted creative tools. Collaborates with internal stakeholders, evaluates and refines AI-generated content, manages design projects from concept through delivery, and supports secure, compliant, and innovative production workflows.

Lead design, layout, simulation, measurement and productization of high-speed analog/mixed-signal CMOS ICs for optical transceivers. Mentor engineers, drive large-block development from concept to production, collaborate with DSP, package, and hardware teams, and ensure signal/power integrity and manufacturability.

Create and edit performance-focused video ads for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and landing pages. Develop concepts, motion graphics, visual effects, sound design, AI-generated characters, avatars, voice synthesis, and realistic lip-sync. Analyze performance metrics, run creative A/B tests, and optimize videos for conversion. Collaborate with creative, marketing, and copy teams while researching trends and integrating emerging AI production tools.

Senior UX Designer responsible for research, conceptual design, prototyping, iterative delivery, client workshops, presentations, storytelling, and client relationship management. The role involves guiding junior designers, translating research into design opportunities, communicating design value, adapting to changing project needs, and supporting pitches and business development while maintaining high-quality deliverables.