What We’re Looking For: As the Senior Manager of Product Design, you will be responsible for leading key Meltwater applications through a distributed design team.

Your role will involve guiding designers in the development of software interfaces, ensuring best-in-class interaction design, visual design, and user experience (UX).

Team Leadership: Oversee the execution of product designers, ensuring their work meets high standards in interaction design, UI, and human-centered design.

Creation and Craft: Develop strong understanding of products by helping to lead the creation of workflows, user prototypes, wireframes, and visual designs Champion user-centered design principles in all projects Strategic Guidance: Collaborate with teams to align design efforts with Meltwater's core business objectives, executing on the priorities and facilitating collaboration through design-driven processes. Engage with designers and developers to ensure alignment with development requirements and systems documentation. Work with UX design research team to identify user pain points, assess products, and identify UX opportunities.

Serve as a direct manager and mentor to designers, modeling exemplary behavior and defining what constitutes "great" design.

Partnership Development: Collaborate with product managers (PMs), and directors to foster strong design and user experience outcomes.

Facilitation of Innovation: Lead teams through ideation, feasibility assessments, and story-mapping workshops to enhance design and development processes.

Design Process Communication: Act as a design steward by communicating the design process to cross-functional leaders, promoting a holistic view of user experience across the end-to-end journey.

Design Quality Assurance: Design Planning: Create important design plans that address the UX creation and product releases. Inspire your teams and provide essential support for personal growth.

User Experience Metrics: Drive user experience metrics and assess design effectiveness through research and user testing.

Culture Building:



Be a solid contributor to design culture while continuously helping the design practice to grow. Minimum of 10 years of experience in Product Design/Visual UI Design/UI/UX. At minimum 3-5 years of experience managing a design team Proven portfolio showcasing extensive UX/UI work.

Ability to analyze user feedback effectively and use data to inform decision-making You have a point of view on industry best practices and design principles Strong experience collaborating with engineering teams to refine UX Strong understanding of the Design Thinking process stages.

Experience collaborating with other designers/design teams for system-wide improvements. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design or a related field. Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React and MUI.

Flexible paid time off that allows you to have an enhanced work-life balance Excellent medical, dental, and vision options Thrive within our inclusive community and seize ongoing professional development opportunities to elevate your career. Our compensation approach is data-driven, market-informed, and built to scale with your growth. We benchmark roles against external market data and use structured leveling frameworks to ensure fairness, consistency, and internal equity across teams and geographies.

For this role, the base salary range is $158,000 - $201,000 CAD.

Compensation may also include a performance-based bonus opportunity. We typically hire within the range in a way that supports long-term growth, recognizing that compensation evolves as scope, performance, and impact expand over time. We regularly review our compensation practices and conduct pay equity analyses to help ensure our decisions remain fair,



objective, and market-aligned.

Employees and candidates may request additional information on how compensation is determined, in line with local legal requirements. Our best-in-class technology empowers our 27,000 customers around the world to make better business decisions through data. But we can’t do that without our global team of developers, innovators, problem-solvers, and high-performers who embrace challenges and find new solutions for our customers.

We are innovators at the core who see the potential in people, ideas and technologies. Together, we challenge ourselves to go big, be bold, and build best-in-class solutions for our customers. No matter where you are, you’ll work with people who care about your success and get the support you need to unlock new heights in your career.

Inspired by innovation, powered by people. Meltwater is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: At Meltwater, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where every employee feels valued, respected, and empowered. All employment decisions at Meltwater are made based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by the applicable laws and regulations.

We encourage applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities to apply and join us in our mission to drive innovation and make a positive impact in the world. We may use AI to assist in aspects of our hiring process, such as reviewing candidate information, capturing interview notes, and supporting interview activities. These tools are used only to assist our team through increased efficiencies.

We remain committed to evaluating candidates fairly, consistently, and in compliance with all applicable laws. #

📌 Sr. Design Manager, Product (Toronto)
🏢 Meltwater
📍 Toronto