Hybrid (Toronto) | Full time | $50,000-$60,000 CAD + Performance-Based Bonus Customer-Obsessed — every decision is made in service of the customer’s success. At Sidekick, our mission is simple: help people recover faster from persistent injuries. Trusted by Olympic champions and everyday individuals, our products have been featured in Men’s Health, Running Magazine, and more.

As we continue to grow our line of rehabilitation and pain relief products, we’re looking for a Junior Industrial Designer to support concept development and design execution across our product portfolio. You’ll be the creative engine behind our product line — generating innovative concepts, building and testing prototypes, and refining products based on real user feedback. You’ll work closely with our Senior Industrial Designers, Product Managers, physiotherapists, and manufacturing partners to bring products from brief to golden sample.

Generate 10–20+ diverse product concepts per brief, exploring varied mechanisms, materials,



and ergonomic approaches Build early-stage mockups to validate mechanisms and usability before committing to a direction Lead structured focus group testing sessions and synthesize ergonomic and user value feedback Refine comfort, usability, aesthetics, and interaction design based on testing outcomes Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing partners to optimize designs for production Support development of the golden sample, ensuring the final design meets quality and manufacturability standards Hands-on prototyper — comfortable with foam, fabric, off-the-shelf hardware, 3D printing, whatever the fidelity calls for Hard and soft goods experience — our products combine rigid structures with textiles and straps, so both matter Understands manufacturability — you think about tooling, tolerances, and assembly from the start, not at handoff User-research capable — you can run a focus group, synthesize feedback, and translate it into design decisions Collaborative — you’ll work within a structured process alongside PMs, physios, and engineers, not in isolation Competitive compensation + Performance-based bonus Opportunity to shape entire product lines from concept through production Hybrid with work-from-home days

📌 Junior Industrial Designer (Toronto)
🏢 Sidekick
📍 Toronto