Design Lead, Marketplace
About the role
About the Client:
Our client is a Toronto-based startup reimagining how homeowners maintain and manage their most valuable asset: their home.
Built on a community-driven model, their app connects homeowners with trusted local service providers, recommended by real neighbours, not algorithms.
It is more than a marketplace, it is a digital ecosystem that fosters trust, transparency, and collaboration between homeowners and local service providers.
The Opportunity:
This is the design cornerstone of our client's marketplace product: the homeowner experience where people find the right Pro at the right moment and decide who to trust with their home.
The Skills/Requirement Needed to Succeed:
A track record of owning end-to-end user experiences, visual and interaction, on real shipped product, and the judgment to know when and how to simplify. Strong UX and interface design skills with fluency across mobile and web patterns. Figma preferred. The ability to operate at the level of product and experience strategy, not just execution: developing the design vision, aligning senior stakeholders and executives, and holding a point of view on how the marketplace should evolve. Fluency in both generative and evaluative research, and the ability to turn insight into design decisions. Comfort owning customer conversations directly. Experience working with and contributing to a design system. Product design background is required. Nice to have: experience designing for a marketplace or two-sided platform, designing AI-powered features, and comfort programming in web technologies. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who wants real ownership of a critical part of the product. There are no direct reports.
Martyn Bassett Associates:
Martyn Bassett Associates is a team of recruiters solving the ambitious goals of startups and scale-ups by recruiting world-class sales, marketing, and product management talent who deliver growth and scale. We’ve helped over 1500 candidates land their next big opportunity at companies like Shopify, Extreme Networks, Wattpad, Loopio, Readdle, ClearCo, Workleap, Invicti, Resolve Pay, The Herjavec Group, GE Energy, GE Health, Enable, RBC Ventures, Unibuddy, Cognota, Thalmic Labs (now Google Glass), Eloqua (now Oracle Marketing Cloud) to name a few.
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About Martyn Bassett Associates
Founded in 2001, we are a North American executive search firm specializing in sourcing and recruiting top talent for early-stage to mid-stage software and technology companies.
We find the game changers in Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success who can transform organizations, build teams, scale processes and grow revenue.
Our clients are responsible for some of the most highly celebrated products and solutions. We have partnered with hundreds of global tech startups and scale-ups, including Workleap, Loopio, Readdle, Fluix, and Extreme Networks.
Our mission is to help software and technology companies scale from startup and early-stage to profitable enterprises by sourcing the leadership talent they need to build the strategic teams that drive growth.
With over 20 years of industry experience and an established network of professionals, we help our clients hire quality talent and streamline the hiring process. Our market expertise, insights and resources allow us to truly understand and satisfy the specific hiring needs of our clients.
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Design Lead, Marketplace
About the role
About the Client:
Our client is a Toronto-based startup reimagining how homeowners maintain and manage their most valuable asset: their home.
Built on a community-driven model, their app connects homeowners with trusted local service providers, recommended by real neighbours, not algorithms.
It is more than a marketplace, it is a digital ecosystem that fosters trust, transparency, and collaboration between homeowners and local service providers.
The Opportunity:
This is the design cornerstone of our client's marketplace product: the homeowner experience where people find the right Pro at the right moment and decide who to trust with their home.
The Skills/Requirement Needed to Succeed:
A track record of owning end-to-end user experiences, visual and interaction, on real shipped product, and the judgment to know when and how to simplify. Strong UX and interface design skills with fluency across mobile and web patterns. Figma preferred. The ability to operate at the level of product and experience strategy, not just execution: developing the design vision, aligning senior stakeholders and executives, and holding a point of view on how the marketplace should evolve. Fluency in both generative and evaluative research, and the ability to turn insight into design decisions. Comfort owning customer conversations directly. Experience working with and contributing to a design system. Product design background is required. Nice to have: experience designing for a marketplace or two-sided platform, designing AI-powered features, and comfort programming in web technologies. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who wants real ownership of a critical part of the product. There are no direct reports.
Martyn Bassett Associates:
Martyn Bassett Associates is a team of recruiters solving the ambitious goals of startups and scale-ups by recruiting world-class sales, marketing, and product management talent who deliver growth and scale. We’ve helped over 1500 candidates land their next big opportunity at companies like Shopify, Extreme Networks, Wattpad, Loopio, Readdle, ClearCo, Workleap, Invicti, Resolve Pay, The Herjavec Group, GE Energy, GE Health, Enable, RBC Ventures, Unibuddy, Cognota, Thalmic Labs (now Google Glass), Eloqua (now Oracle Marketing Cloud) to name a few.
Not the right fit? Search for Design Lead, Marketplace jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About Martyn Bassett Associates
Founded in 2001, we are a North American executive search firm specializing in sourcing and recruiting top talent for early-stage to mid-stage software and technology companies.
We find the game changers in Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success who can transform organizations, build teams, scale processes and grow revenue.
Our clients are responsible for some of the most highly celebrated products and solutions. We have partnered with hundreds of global tech startups and scale-ups, including Workleap, Loopio, Readdle, Fluix, and Extreme Networks.
Our mission is to help software and technology companies scale from startup and early-stage to profitable enterprises by sourcing the leadership talent they need to build the strategic teams that drive growth.
With over 20 years of industry experience and an established network of professionals, we help our clients hire quality talent and streamline the hiring process. Our market expertise, insights and resources allow us to truly understand and satisfy the specific hiring needs of our clients.