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Product Design Intern

At Interac, we design and deliver products and solutions that give Canadians control over their money so they can get more out of life. But that’s not all. Whether we’re leading real-time money movement, driving innovative commerce solutions like open payments for transit systems, or making advancements in new areas like verification and open banking, we are playing a key role in shaping the future of the digital economy in Canada.

Want to make a lasting impact amongst a community of creative thinkers, problem solvers, technical gurus and high-performance application developers? We want to hear from you.

Join the newly established Product Design team at Interac, responsible for designing and providing UX support for all digital products. We are a small, collaborative team where everyone is aware of each other's projects. As a Product Design Intern, you will work closely with our design leads to help develop and refine the next generation of Interac products.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Support Product Designers with everyday design tasks such as creating prototypes, making design iterations, and participating in design critique sessions

• Aid in the creation of prototypes for presentation, testing, and all other applications

• Take ownership of your work and present to stakeholders

You’ll be responsible for:

• Design Execution: Translate business and stakeholder needs into design executions using Figma. Contribute effectively to stakeholders, product owners, and key business need

• Design Thinking: Understand and empathize with user/stakeholder needs, rapidly ideate and prototype solutions, communicate design rationale, and iterate based on feedback

• Communication: Report daily task completion and updates to the reporting manager, collaborate effectively with design team members, confidently present design concepts and solutions.

• UI Design: Utilize high proficiency in Figma to create visually appealing, best-in-class, and engaging user interfaces and designs.

• Daily Contributions: Apply your design talents and creativity to products and services used by Canadians every day.

• Collaborative Design: Work with the design team to understand new products and capabilities, helping to create user experiences and interfaces. Have basic understanding of UX research best pracitices to apply back to design solutions

• Design Reviews: Participate in peer reviews to evaluate design techniques and success in meeting compelling user experience objectives.

• User-Centered Design: Engage in user-centered design methods including research, synthesis, exploration, storytelling, detailed design, journey mapping, and prototyping.

• Design Systems: Leverage and contribute to product design systems, ensuring interoperability, accessibility standards compliance, and brand harmony.

You bring:

• Currently completing an undergraduate degree/certificate from a creditable Canadian institution with a focus on Interaction Design, Design, UX/UI, or similar field

• A strong portfolio that you can confidently demonstrate what you’ve directly contributed to while also highlighting the wide-range of your talents and capabilities. In your portfolio, we would like to see:

• Visual Design: High proficiency with Figma as you will create visually appealing, best-in-class, and engaging user interfaces and designs on an ongoing basis

• Understanding and familiarity with tools like Figjam & Jira - You have experience taking business and stakeholder needs/requirements and translating them into of design executions in Figma

• Strong UI skills with the ability to create low to high fidelity to pixel-perfect designs based on best possible UX for various potential stakeholder – you have a clear passion for, and understand, current UX and UI design best practices

• A passion for both mobile and desktop experiences with responsive web design to mobile application and beyond

• Design Thinking: Ability to understand and empathize with user/stakeholder needs, ideate and prototype solutions, communicate the rationale behind your design decisions, and being open to iterating based on useful feedback

• Confidence in your ability to communicate verbally and written in a detailed and impactful way – you have some experience presenting design concepts and solutions

• Proven time management and organization skills. You are able to prioritize and manage your time effectively to meet deadlines

• Understanding that success is in the details – you tend to notice things that others don't

• Although not required, you have some familiarity or previous experience with the following:

• Understanding of accessibility guidelines and best practices

• Motion graphics and microanimations

• Experience working directly with both internal and external developers, project managers, and product owners

• Experience with UX Research, User Testing and A/B Testing

• Experience working in Agile teams is a plus

Workstyle: Hybrid (3 days on-site)
Location: Toronto
Term: September to December 2025
Duration: Monday – Friday