Apply for Lead Product Designer (Digital) - Hybrid at The Globe and Mail in Toronto, ON, CA. This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth. The Globe and Mail is a national icon and one of Canada's most recognized media brands.

We proudly serve as a trusted destination for Canadians seeking the highest caliber of journalism, and we've garnered international acclaim for our data visualization, design, and creative storytelling. We are committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity by reflecting all Canadians in both the stories that we tell and the composition of our workforce. We are proud partners with organizations like Indigenous Works, Pride at Work, the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion, and we are a signatory of the BlackNorth Initiative.

Recognizing the importance of work-life balance, we offer flexible work arrangements and support programs. We also invest in our employees' growth through training and mentorship opportunities, enabling you to expand your skills and embrace new challenges. Does designing customer‑centric solutions for next generation AI‑integrated news media products excite you?

Do you love creating holistic user experiences, design systems, and the prospect of solving for the needs of today’s current news, business and financial readers?

As Lead Product

Designer, you will play a leading role on The Globe’s product design team to create a compelling user experience across both the website and iOS/Android apps. Bring your chops building and shipping complex applications or software to play a key role in ensuring that we continually evolve the user experience to keep up with the needs of our customers, technology and industry conditions. Design world‑class experiences that allow our audience to achieve their goals using The Globe and Mail’s digital products in a way that feels simple,



elegant and understandable Establish a design vision for your product program area and ensure that it guides all your action as a designer through research, interface concepts, prototypes, and UI elements to elevate the user experience across all digital products Conduct user research and feedback sessions to validate user problems and design solutions with our audience.

Contribute to our design system to ensure consistency across platforms and products. 8+ years of experience designing digital products. Passion for user experience and design thinking, a strong desire to be innovative within the news, content publishing and media industry. Orientation to detail and ability to work quickly at all stages of the design cycle to create prototypes and wireframes to visualize your ideas, design specifications, finished front‑end designs and design QA.

Confidence through experience crafting research studies, interviewing customers and reporting results to directors and executives. ~ Experience using and contributing to design systems Extensive experience using design tools such as AI prototyping combined with Figma and other tools for communication such as Miro, Microsoft Office and Google docs. ~ Experience working with data and metrics; proven ability to translate both qualitative and quantitative improvements to the user experience. ~ Experience using AI to optimize your workflow and process. ~ Experience designing experiences that use AI and machine learning. ~ Basic front‑end coding comprehension such as CSS, HTML,



how digital tech works on a high level to facilitate communication with your engineering partners. ~ A positive attitude that embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace ~ Placement within this range depends on a candidate’s level of experience, technical skills, and alignment with the role’s requirements. This role may be eligible for The Globe’s Annual Incentive Plan, which is based on a combination of corporate and revenue objectives and rewards individual performance. The Globe’s mission is to deliver essential content – news, information, analysis and insights – for aspiring individuals and strong communities.

Generous vacation and flexible work arrangements Parental leave top‑up Competitive health and dental perks Defined Benefit pension plan On‑site chiropractor and registered massage therapist Employee and family assistance program Free digital subscription to globeandmail.Education assistance for external training courses We support continuing education and provide both internal and external opportunities for training and development. AI DISCLOSURE Artificial intelligence tools may be used to support certain aspects of the recruitment process, such as candidate sourcing or application review. AI may support preparation but should not be used during interviews or replace your own responses.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL IS DEDICATED TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE WORKPLACE As required by the Federal Contractors Program, The Globe also tracks the proportion of staff in the four Employment Equity categories (Women, Aboriginal Peoples, Persons with Disabilities, and Members of Visible Minorities) to ensure we are reflecting the areas in which we work. The Globe and Mail offers accommodation for applicants with disabilities as part of its recruitment process.

📌 Lead Product Designer (Digital) - Hybrid at The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
🏢 The Globe and Mail
📍 Toronto