Senior Product Designer

ABOUT BREE Bree provides better, faster, and cheaper financial services to over half the Canadian population who live paycheck to paycheck. We operate in a huge, but overlooked market in a country with the least amount of financial technology innovation in the developed world. Our first act is to become the cheapest and best provider of short-term credit to the 20 million people in Canada who live paycheck to paycheck. More than 800,000 Canadians have already signed up with Bree and we believe we are just scratching the surface. We are in an exciting place where we have product market fit, explosive growth, and a clear path to becoming one of the most important FinTechs in Canada. We are at 8-figures of annualized revenue, growing double-digit monthly, profitable, and have had zero voluntary employee churn. We were part of Y Combinator https://www.ycombinator.com/in 2021 and raised a $2M seed round shortly after. ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for an Senior Product Designer to help shape the next phase of Bree's product. This is a senior individual contributor role with significant ownership and impact. You'll work end-to-end on core product surfaces across mobile and web, partnering closely with Product and Engineering to define problems, explore solutions, and ship meaningful improvements for our users. This role focuses on thoughtful product judgment, clear decision-making, and delivering work that meaningfully improves outcomes for our users and the business. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own the end-to-end design for major product initiatives, from problem framing and discovery through execution and launch - Partner deeply with different stakeholders including Engineers, CX, Business to turn ambiguous ideas into scoped, high-impact releases - Design intuitive, accessible experiences across Bree's mobile and web products, with a strong focus on clarity, trust, and usability - Use research, data, and direct customer feedback to inform decisions and iterate on solutions - Create and evolve user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that are ready to ship - Contribute to and help mature Bree's design system, ensuring consistency while enabling fast iteration - Sweat the details while keeping sight of the bigger picture, balancing speed, quality, and impact - Advocate for our users, especially those navigating financial stress, by simplifying complexity and reducing friction - Collaborate in design critiques and team rituals, and help raise the overall bar for design quality at Bree WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 3+ years of experience designing and shipping consumer digital products in fast-paced environments - Strong end-to-end product design experience, spanning UX, interaction design, and visual design - Proven ability to work through ambiguity and make good decisions with incomplete information - Excellent product thinking, with a clear sense of what matters most to users and the business - Experience working closely with engineers and understanding technical constraints and tradeoffs - Strong visual and interaction design skills, with an eye for simplicity, hierarchy, and polish - Comfort using data, analytics, and experimentation to validate and improve your work - Proficiency with modern design tools like Figma - A portfolio that demonstrates thoughtful problem-solving, real shipped work, and impact - Working knowledge of front-end development concepts (e.g. components, state, APIs), and the ability to reason about implementation while designing NICE TO HAVE - Experience designing fintech, lending, or other financial products - Familiarity with mobile-first products and React Native environments - Experience contributing to or evolving a design system - Comfort "vibe coding" or prototyping in code when helpful, to explore ideas, validate interactions, or collaborate more closely with engineers FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE BENEFITS INCLUDE: 💰Top of the market compensation for top performers ⚕️Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits plan 🖥 $1,500 annual learning & home-office stipend 🧘🏼 $1,000 annual wellness stipend 🍔 Monthly Lunch Stipend 🚗 Commuter Benefits 🚼Paid Parental leave 🏝20 annual PTO days + unlimited sick days 🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings ☕ In Office Amenities DRAFT TO REPLACE: About the role You own strategic design for major initiatives, turning complex problems into trusted mobile and web experiences. You exercise sharp judgment, move fast, and help define problems with partners while improving outcomes for users and the business. Key facts

Location: Canada

Engagement: Full-time

Compensation: Top of the market compensation for top performers. What you'll do Setting the creative direction for consumer products that serve customers living paycheck to paycheck. Translating ambiguous concepts into clear mobile and web flows that respect business goals and user needs. Partnering with engineers and CX to scope solutions that balance speed, quality, and meaningful impact. Conducting research, reviewing data, and applying direct customer feedback to refine interaction details. Crafting user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups ready for implementation. Advocating for people managing financial stress by simplifying complexity and lowering interaction friction. Maintaining design system elements so teams can iterate quickly while preserving consistency. Collaborating in critiques and rituals that push design quality across the team. Championing accessibility and clarity so experiences feel trustworthy and easy to complete. Coordinating with partners to ensure designs align with engineering constraints and timelines. Requirements You bring 3+ years designing and shipping consumer digital products in fast environments. You show strong end-to-end product design skills across UX, interaction, and visual layers. You handle uncertainty well and make solid choices with partial information. You communicate product thinking clearly and prioritize what truly matters to users and revenue. You collaborate effectively with engineers, understanding constraints and tradeoffs. You apply visual and interaction