Job Description

About

Planitar

Planitar offers cutting-edge hardware and cloud-based SaaS technology for mapping interior spaces across insurance, residential, and commercial real estate sectors. Our solution merges advanced laser measurements, panoramic photography, and virtual navigation tools, providing the quickest space mapping, visualization, and documentation available. iGUIDE, our interactive property guide, is a web-based application integrating floor plans, on-screen measurements, and 360 images, allowing users to visualize and measure spaces remotely. With the largest market share in 3D tours in Canada, iGUIDE is experiencing accelerated growth due to increased demand for accurate floor plans, precise measurements, and comprehensive property information.




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Job Summary

We're looking for a Product Designer to join our growing design practice and help establish design as a core discipline at Planitar. You'll work alongside our Senior UX Designer to deliver exceptional user experiences, combining your visual design craft with research and strategy work. This role offers a real opportunity to shape how design influences product decisions as we evolve from an engineering-driven organization to one where user experience drives our success.





Your primary focus will be creating polished, implementable designs, working closely with our 20-person engineering team to translate concepts into intuitive, high-quality interfaces. Most of your time will be spent in Figma crafting user interfaces, but you'll also contribute to research synthesis, participate in design critiques, and help define our design processes. As one of two designers on the team, your work will have immediate visibility and impact.





This role will evolve toward greater strategic ownership of specific product areas as we build towards empowered, autonomous product teams. You'll have opportunities to lead design initiatives, influence product direction, and grow into more strategic responsibilities while building our design practice alongside experienced collaborators.

Core Responsibilities:

Partner with our Senior UX Designer to translate research insights into visual solutions. Create high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and detailed design specifications. Participate in research synthesis sessions and identify design opportunities. Build and evolve our design system to ensure consistency across products. Collaborate directly with engineering teams to ensure feasible implementation. Present design work and rationale to stakeholders across the organization. Support multiple product teams while working toward deeper product ownership. Help shape design-to-development workflows and handoff processes. Contribute to design strategy discussions and establish team best practices.

Qualifications:

3+ years of experience in UX design, interaction design, or a related field with a portfolio demonstrating both visual excellence and problem-solving ability. Proficiency in Figma or comparable tool including experience with component systems and prototyping. Experience participating in (or interest in learning) user research and testing. Ability to balance craft excellence with shipping velocity. Collaborative mindset and eagerness to learn from senior team members. Experience working directly with developers and working to balance design goals with technical constraints Experience with complex B2B or technical software applications is a plus. * Interest in helping to establish design as a discipline and department within a growing company