Product Designer (Contract) - Remote

Overview

Join us at PolicyMe! We’re modernizing insurance and we’d like your help. The Canadian insurance landscape has remained largely unchanged for decades, and we’re leading the charge to make it more accessible, intuitive, and customer-centric. We’re a remote-first, Toronto-based startup with big ambitions.

In Short

• Delivering design work end-to-end: research, wireframes, prototypes, usability testing, and polished high-fidelity designs.
• Running focused, lightweight research to quickly surface customer insights (interviews, journey mapping, competitor reviews).
• Partnering closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to define problems and ship solutions that balance usability with business needs.
• Supporting key initiatives such as optimizing existing flows, refining landing pages, or contributing to upcoming launches.
• Using our design system to keep work consistent and scalable, while suggesting improvements and creating new components where needed.
• Participating in essential team check-ins (design reviews, stand-ups, retros) to stay aligned and keep projects moving.
• Clearly communicating design choices and progress, keeping stakeholders in the loop as you work.
• Balancing speed and quality - delivering quickly while iterating based on feedback.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing digital products with a strong portfolio that demonstrates elegant solutions to complex problems.
• Strength in visual design, interaction design, and information architecture.
• Experience moving quickly from research to design to iteration.
• Ability to gather or synthesize user insights to inform decisions.
• Comfort working in Figma and with existing design systems.
• Strong communication skills—you can explain your thinking and align with both designers and non-designers.
• A flexible, pragmatic approach—able to deliver high-impact design in a short time frame.

Benefits

• Be part of a fast-moving startup that’s modernizing insurance in Canada.
• Work on meaningful projects with immediate impact on customer experience and business outcomes.
• Collaborate with an empathetic, high-performing team that values clear communication, ownership, and results.
• Gain exposure to a cross-functional environment, working alongside Product, Growth, and Engineering leaders.
• Flexibility to work remotely from anywhere in Canada!