Product Designer

About Baselane

Baselane is a rapidly growing banking and financial management platform for individual landlords and real estate investors. We are backed by leading FinTech investors, including Matrix Partners, Activant Capital, Collaborative Fund, Conversion Capital, Diagram Ventures, ThomVest, and many FinTech leaders from PayPal, eBay, Google, and more.

We are building the future of financial services for the 12+ million individual landlords and real estate investors who own over 25 million homes in the United States. Our mission is to empower landlords with financial services, automated tools, and actionable insights to help them save time, increase their returns, and grow their investment portfolios.

We are a seasoned team with deep experience in financial services and technology. We have previously worked at companies including The Boston Consulting Group, Morgan Stanley, Plaid, Harry’s, Better, WealthSimple, RBC Ventures, Affirm, NorthOne, RazorPay, and more.

Learn more at baselane.com.

About the Role

We are seeking a Product Designer motivated by the opportunity to work at a design-driven company. You will tackle complex design challenges to deliver exceptional product experiences for our customers, with support and collaboration from all areas of the business. 

You help execute our product design, take ownership of the end-to-end design process in close collaboration with our design leader, Product, and Engineering teams; you will help ship the simplest, most intuitive product solutions.  

In this role, you will work in a highly collaborative environment while getting autonomy, ownership, and the ability to impact the entire product. 

This role is based in Toronto; we expect you to come to the office (downtown Toronto)  at least once or twice a week  for meetings and working sessions, but you can work remotely other days.

Responsibilities

• Participate and lead product design and user experience - in collaboration with Design lead and PMs, owning the design process from planning, prioritization, and research through launch.
• Define design requirements based on information from internal teams and user research.
• Explore solutions, create prototypes, and dive into user feedback/data to identify points of friction and opportunities for improvements in design.
• Collaborate with other Designers, Product, Engineering, and company leadership to evolve our long-term product vision and design.

Must Have

• 3+ years of product design experience at a technology startup.
• Demonstrated experience with end-to-end product design, including user research, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, and usability testing, with a clear focus on visual design.
• Experience owning product design from start to finish, working with developers and PMs
• Extraordinary visual design skills and rigor, understanding of UX/UI principles
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to persuade stakeholders
• Mastery of Figma

What’s in it for you?

• Be part of a dynamic, driven team with flat hierarchies and a collaborative culture.
• Training and development budget to ensure professional growth.
• Regular team events, game nights, and other social activities.
• Semi-annual full company meetings in Toronto or NYC. 

Practicals

• Team: Product & Design, 
• Location: For this position, we will prioritize applications from Toronto
• Office: We have an office in downtown Toronto and expect you to be in the office at least once or twice a week 
• Start date: As soon as possible

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Equity - Ownership in what we are building!
• High-quality Medical, Vision, and Dental InsuranceLife Insurance and Disability Coverage
• Generous time off
• Flexible working hours and location
• Remote working stipend to set up a home office 
• Regular social events