Top Design Jobs in Ottawa

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.

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.

Supports digital student experience initiatives through user research, interviews, journey mapping, requirements gathering, solution validation, testing, implementation planning, and adoption efforts. Collaborates with stakeholders, technology teams, and external partners to improve student-facing digital products. Analyzes user feedback, market trends, and performance metrics to recommend continuous improvements and contribute to student-centered product and experience enhancements.

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.

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.

Design and maintain polished, responsive marketing websites using Figma, Webflow, CMS tools, and established component systems. Create landing pages, campaign assets, templates, and other marketing materials while ensuring accessibility, visual quality, localization, and conversion effectiveness. Own publishing workflows, quality assurance, developer handoffs, and implementation feedback with agencies and cross-functional teams. Support broader creative work using AI design tools while maintaining strong design judgment and consistency.

Design and publish polished, responsive marketing websites and landing pages using Figma, Webflow, CMS tools, and component systems. Own visual quality, accessibility, responsive QA, content validation, localization review, and launch consistency. Collaborate with Growth, Content, Design, Engineering, and development agencies while supporting campaign creative, ads, presentations, email UI, and other brand assets. Use AI design tools to accelerate exploration and production without compromising quality.

Own product design end to end, from identifying ambiguous problems and developing concepts to shipping polished experiences across web, desktop, mobile, and Chrome Extension surfaces. Create realistic prototypes, contribute to shared design systems and front-end components, use data and user insights to shape initiatives, and manage roadmaps, milestones, timelines, and issues. The role requires strong visual and interaction design, product judgment, communication, leadership, and familiarity with code.

Creates short-form video content and supporting graphic assets for TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Responsibilities include editing raw footage, adding captions, transitions, music, voiceovers, sound effects, motion graphics, thumbnails, and static posts. The role collaborates with social media, marketing, sales, and CRO teams; adapts content for platform requirements; evaluates performance metrics; follows brand guidelines; manages digital assets; and stays current with social media trends and creative formats.

Designs detailed CAD drawings for large-diameter watermain, stormwater, and sanitary sewer infrastructure projects. Leads CAD deliverables independently, develops plan and profile views, maintains drawing standards, performs quality control, coordinates revisions with engineers, and supports proposals and project execution. Collaborates with multidisciplinary stakeholders, manages project documentation, and may mentor junior CAD staff. The role requires municipal infrastructure design experience, proficiency in Civil 3D and MicroStation, and familiarity with tender documents, as-built drawings, GIS, trenchless methods, and hydraulic modeling outputs.