Top Design Jobs in Ottawa

Prepare detailed electrical designs, drawings, and schematics for ICI buildings using AutoCAD/Revit. Design lighting, MV/LV distribution, emergency power, fire alarm and panel schedules; produce calculations, reports, review shop drawings, and support project delivery with the project team.

Design mechanical systems (HVAC, plumbing, fire protection) for commercial/industrial/institutional buildings. Produce detailed drawings and specs using AutoCAD/Revit, perform heating/cooling load calculations, select equipment, review shop drawings, support project teams, and handle general project documentation and quantity take-offs.

Design and deliver product experiences that make security usable and trustworthy. Own well-scoped features from discovery to delivery, partner with PMs, engineers, and researchers, iterate with user research and data, contribute to design standards and critiques, and grow product thinking while balancing usability, accessibility, and security.

The Senior Brand Designer will define Spare's visual language, create high-quality assets, and build design systems, ensuring brand consistency across multiple platforms while collaborating with teams in a hybrid environment.

Design and manage AI and data training programs (synchronous and asynchronous), create learning objectives, course materials, instructor guides, track project progress, collaborate with stakeholders, and recommend delivery methods to ensure measurable learner and client outcomes.

The PCB Layout Designer will create high-speed, multi-layer PCBs, collaborating with teams on design, manufacturing compliance, and emerging technologies.

Design, build, and optimize Klaviyo email, landing page, and SMS flows. Write and refine high-converting email and SMS copy (using AI tools for drafts). Set up and improve automated flows, own segmentation and backend logic, and drive performance against sales conversion KPIs.

Lead the design for a critical product area, collaborating with teams to craft effective user experiences while leveraging AI tools for prototyping and testing. Influence product strategy and uphold design standards while mentoring junior designers.

Lead UX research and design for B2B/SaaS insurance products: create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes; run user research and usability tests; use analytics to measure outcomes; collaborate with product and engineering to implement consistent, validated UX solutions.

Lead vision-heavy product design for Square Point of Sale: craft visual and interaction designs, build prototypes, collaborate with product and engineering, integrate AI-driven experiences, and drive projects from concept through shipped product while raising design standards and systems thinking.

As the first designer at turbopuffer, you'll own designs for products, web, and marketing, ensuring a mix of whimsy and professionalism across all surfaces.

Lead and evolve Payward's core brand system: guidelines, component libraries, templates, and assets. Raise brand quality across product pods through systems thinking, guidance, and design reviews. Define identity standards for new surfaces (including AI and motion), collaborate with designers, PMs, and marketers, and translate complex crypto and finance concepts into usable brand guidance.

Lead and evolve Payward's core brand system—guidelines, component libraries, templates and assets—ensuring coherent visual identity across brands. Define brand behavior for emerging surfaces and AI outputs, collaborate with pods to fix systemic issues, translate complex crypto and finance concepts into usable guidance, run constructive design reviews, and shape how design tooling and AI affect brand practice.

Design and ship high-converting mobile paywalls, onboarding flows, and purchase funnels using RevenueCat builders. Lead discovery, propose experiment plans, run multivariate tests, analyze results, and codify successful patterns into templates and content. Partner with Product, Marketing, and Advocacy; present findings publicly and advise internal teams on monetization UX best practices.

Senior individual-contributor UI/UX Product Designer responsible for end-to-end mobile and web design. Create pixel-perfect UI, interaction flows, wireframes, and prototypes; adapt to enterprise design systems; collaborate closely with product, engineering, and stakeholders onsite; drive usability improvements and maintain visual consistency with minimal supervision.

Design interactive 3D interfaces for mining software, focusing on usability and intuitive user experiences. Prototyping skills needed.

Design, develop, and maintain high-reliability embedded software for spacecraft and ground systems. Implement secure communications, low-level drivers and kernel components, build automated tests and validation tools, participate in architecture and code reviews, and mentor junior engineers to improve system performance and reliability.

Design Superpilot apps and AI agents, develop high-fidelity prototypes (and ship them in code), support go-to-market with UI/UX and marketing assets, and work directly with customers and leadership to build enterprise commerce marketing features.

Lead end-to-end learning design and development: perform needs analysis, define strategy and success metrics, create scripts/storyboards, build interactive eLearning in Articulate Storyline and Rise, publish SCORM/xAPI modules, configure LMS, produce multimedia assets, manage SMEs, evaluate program impact, and maintain QA and development standards.

Senior Motion Designer responsible for creating high-quality motion graphics, kinetic typography, character animation, VFX, and video deliverables. Collaborate cross-functionally to develop style frames, storyboards, prototypes, and integrate audio. Ensure brand alignment, organized project files, and iterative improvements based on feedback for product launches, web, and marketing campaigns.

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.

Contract product designer contributing to web and mobile projects: user research, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity visual design, usability testing, and cross-functional collaboration. Produce presentation collateral, marketing assets, and support handoffs to engineering.

Lead product design efforts: research, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, prototypes, usability testing, and developer handoff. Build and maintain a scalable design system, collaborate with product and engineering, contribute front-end code (HTML/CSS/React), improve Figma workflows, and advocate for usability and accessibility across the organization.

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.

Contract graphic designer creating branded assets across marketing channels. Produce print and digital materials, manage file prep and quality control, collaborate with art director and marketers, and deliver on multiple deadlines while maintaining brand consistency.