Top Design Jobs in Ottawa

Design manufacturing test systems for validating electronic products, develop automated test strategies, and mentor junior team members.

The Senior FPGA Designer will design and implement FPGA controls, support verification and testing, and collaborate across engineering teams. Responsibilities include lab validation, synthesis, optimization, documentation, and mentoring junior engineers.

Design, develop, and test FPGA-based systems and electrical circuits, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure performance and compliance.

Lead Retell AI's visual identity across web, social, events, and marketing. Create launch campaigns, landing pages, illustrations, diagrams, and experiential assets. Extend and document brand systems so teams can produce on-brand work. Ship high-quality design quickly from brief to final assets and own brand consistency across touchpoints.

Own and evolve Foundant’s brand strategy, architecture, standards, and visual identity across client segments and product lines. Create campaigns, marketing assets, templates, web materials, sales collateral, product launches, events, and social content. Use AI creative tools, manage brand systems, direct photography and illustration, collaborate cross-functionally, and oversee freelancers or agencies when needed.

Lead design of agentic voice personas and interaction standards. Define pacing, prosody, handoffs, and quality metrics; partner with AI and Speech engineers to shape prompt-driven behaviors and turn-taking; research emotional states and set platform-wide VUI standards applied across verticals.

Lead product design for Waabi’s driverless commercial and operations ecosystem, including fleet management, remote assistance, dispatch, monitoring, and safety-critical workflows. Observe fleet operators and terminal staff, design human-AI interactions, extend the design system, and ship directly in React codebases using AI-assisted tools. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and operations teams while helping establish design culture and processes as the second product designer.

Contract pool for web designers to support Canadian federal government projects in Ottawa. Responsibilities include defining web architecture, creating usable designs, coding (including database read/write), unit and integration testing, developing test plans, and monitoring design stability. Candidates must have substantial government experience and valid security clearance.

The role involves developing embedded software for LiDAR products, defining product requirements, and supporting software verification, while mentoring junior engineers.

Design end-to-end user experiences for AI image and video products, including user journeys, interaction flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI. Partner with product, engineering, and research to translate user needs into requirements, prioritize impactful features, address edge cases, and shape product direction. The role requires strong product thinking, collaboration, communication, and comfort working in an ambiguous startup environment.

Own the end-to-end design of GrantOS, Instrumentl’s foundational platform spanning data, permissions, integrations, core workflows, and enterprise surfaces. Define system-wide interaction patterns, lead zero-to-one product discovery, conduct user research, influence product and engineering direction, and coach other designers. The role requires designing complex B2B SaaS platforms and agentic or AI-powered product experiences.

Lead UX strategy and vision for AI and agentic experiences across products. Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, and design leaders to shape roadmaps, interaction models, workflows, and cross-platform initiatives. Establish UX standards, promote accessibility and usability, guide research, define success metrics, advocate for customers, and mentor designers. Influence strategic and executive decisions while designing trustworthy, transparent, and effective enterprise experiences.

As a Senior Electrical PCB Layout Designer, you will design high-speed PCB layouts, collaborate with engineers, and optimize layouts for performance while ensuring manufacturability.

Design, A/B test, and publish 2–3 high-performing thumbnails daily for YouTube and social channels. Write SEO-optimised titles/descriptions, source and edit images with professional and AI tools, analyse performance metrics, iterate creative approaches, maintain brand consistency, and manage publishing schedules.

Design high-converting emails, landing pages, and A/B test variations for Shopify eCommerce clients. Translate CRO strategy into effective visuals, collaborate with strategists, PMs, developers, copywriters, and media buyers, and design within Shopify constraints to drive clicks, conversions, and revenue.

Lead product design for Jane’s Activation team, improving clinic discovery, signup, onboarding, setup, and first-90-day experiences. Use user research, behavioral data, experimentation, and activation metrics to reduce friction, improve conversion and retention, and accelerate customer value. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, data partners, and designers while aligning stakeholders and communicating decisions through compelling storytelling. Apply AI in daily design workflows and contribute to a high-growth SaaS environment.

Lead UX design for scalable online learning products, owning major initiatives from problem exploration through implementation. Partner with product managers and engineers to define scope, develop user-centered solutions, produce production-ready designs, conduct user research and usability testing, resolve stakeholder challenges, and contribute to product strategy and roadmap discussions. Maintain design-system consistency, accessibility, responsive experiences, and high-quality visual execution.

Design and maintain player progression and economy systems for games, ensuring engagement, balance, and clarity through data analysis and collaboration.

Create performance-driven static and motion creative for social and landing pages, edit video cutdowns, run CRO experiments (A/B tests), analyze heatmaps/usability, collaborate with media/content teams, and iterate designs based on data to optimize campaign KPIs.

Lead end-to-end electrical design of high-density analog and digital circuits for optical sub-assemblies. Convert requirements into schematics, coordinate PCB layout, integrate with mechanical/software teams, manage supply chain/prototypes, mentor junior engineers, and participate in program and release management.

Create performance-focused digital visuals across paid ads, social, web, landing pages, and email. Conceptualize, design, and deliver assets using Adobe Suite, Figma, and AI tools; collaborate with strategists, copywriters, and developers; apply brand guidelines and platform best practices; iterate using performance data; support rapid-turn requests and asset resizing/cleanup.

As a Game Designer, you will collaborate on level, mission, and gameplay design, working with various teams to enhance gaming experiences, optimize performance, and provide mentorship.

Design digital assets and experiences across websites, landing pages, e-commerce, email, campaigns, and presentations. Create polished, conversion-minded work grounded in strong visual craft, typography, imagery, art direction, and storytelling. Build scalable Figma systems and responsive designs, collaborate with marketing, copy, and development teams, incorporate AI-assisted tools, and manage projects independently from brief through launch.

Own end-to-end UX and UI design for global e-commerce customer journeys, from discovery and problem framing through prototyping, validation, and handoff. Lead a mobile-first website redesign, improve product education and conversion, use research, analytics, and usability testing to guide decisions, and build a lightweight design system. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Content, Marketing, and commercial teams to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.

Design and develop responsive websites using Framer, collaborating with marketing and SEO teams to enhance performance and user experience.