About VAZA
VAZA is a social voting platform where people pick sides on matchups across sports, music, anime and culture, and the crowd decides the winner. Users vote for free or back their picks, and every result is decided by participation on the platform. We're a fast-growing Toronto-area startup with 500K+ users and a highly engaged community that uses the product every day.
The role
We're hiring our first in-house Product Designer to own VAZA's product experience end to end. You'll take over our newly redesigned UI system and work directly with the founders and engineering team to design, test and ship improvements every week.
What you'll do
- Own and evolve VAZA's design system and UI across mobile web (PWA) and desktop
- Design core flows (voting, results, onboarding, profiles, leaderboards, wallet) with clarity and trust at the centre
- Create motion and interaction design that makes voting feel live and rewarding, and hand off production-ready specs (Figma, Lottie/Rive) to engineering
- Use analytics and session recordings to find friction and turn it into design improvements
- Run quick usability tests and iterate based on real user behaviour
- Work hands-on with engineering through implementation and QA so what ships matches what was designed
What we're looking for
- 3–5 years of product design experience, ideally in consumer apps, social, gaming or fintech
- A strong portfolio showing shipped mobile-first products, not just concepts
- Expert Figma skills: components, auto layout, prototyping and design systems
- Interaction and motion design experience
- Comfort using data (PostHog, Amplitude or similar) to inform decisions
- Clear communication, and the ability to move fast in a small team
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time or live experiences
- Experience designing for trust and transparency in products where money is involved
- Basic front-end knowledge (HTML/CSS/React)
Why VAZA
- Real ownership: you'll be the design voice of the product
- Direct access to founders and fast decision-making
- Hybrid setup in Woodbridge, Ontario
- Compensation discussed during the interview process
