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Product Designer, Stealth Start-Up Company

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Montréal, QC
Senior level
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Senior level
Lead product design efforts for a startup, collaborating with engineering and ML teams to create user-friendly interfaces and develop design systems.
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About the Organization: 

We’re a Seed-Funded Startup developing an AI-native platform that converts messy human business intent into production-ready software. We tackle the gaps where current tools fall short in real-world enterprise environments, moving quickly to turn ideas into working systems.

About the Role: 

You’ll be an early product design leader on a small, seasoned team building a 0→1 product—with real ownership over core product decisions and a direct line to the people who build it. Nothing is fixed: you’ll shape product direction alongside colleagues who bring deep experience in product, design, AI, and enterprise software.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate closely with engineering, ML, product, and design teams to define how users interact with and collaborate through the application.
  • Prototype and test new interaction patterns across the requirements → generation → verification cycle (e.g., conflict resolution, validation, evaluation) to guide strategy and reduce risk.
  • Create intuitive, high-impact interfaces for complex workflows that make difficult tasks feel simple.
  • Design experiences that demonstrate the platform’s value clearly and quickly for users and internal stakeholders.
  • Deliver product design end-to-end, from low-fidelity exploration to high-fidelity, production-ready flows.
  • Develop and maintain a scalable design language and component system.

Qualifications: 

  • 5–8+ years of relevant professional experience designing digital products
  • Experience building products from 0→1 (launching new products or features at pre‑product/seed stages) is highly desirable.
  • Familiarity with user research methods and incorporating user insights into design decisions.
  • Strong problem-framing and problem‑solving skills — able to translate high‑level, open-ended problems into clear product goals and actionable solutions.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills; able to direct stakeholders on the problems the application should solve and align cross‑functional teams around outcomes.
  • Proven ability to work comfortably in ambiguous environments and thrive in fast-moving, early-stage companies.

At AppDirect, we believe that innovation thrives in an environment that houses diversity of excellence, experience and thought. We respect each AppDirector as their own fingerprint; unique with no one alike. We foster an environment of inclusion without regard to race, religion, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity enabling AppDirectors to embrace their uniqueness to do their best work. As such, we strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities.

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