Product Designer

Who Are We?
Founded in 2014, CadMakers is an industry-leading digital construction and manufacturing technology company headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. We are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge digital solutions to the global construction industry 🏗️ tackling the most complex yet common problems in the field, empowering our clients with transformative tools and expertise 💡. 

Our Product
Developed by CadMakers, cmBuilder.io is a fast-growing visual construction planning software platform that is redefining how construction projects are planned, communicated, and delivered. Our fully web-based platform enables construction teams to create dynamic 3D site logistics models and 4D simulations, allowing construction companies to build their projects in the digital world before breaking ground in the real one, enabling smarter decisions, smoother execution, and more wins.🧠💼

With rapid adoption across North America, Europe, and Australia, cmBuilder is on a mission to democratize construction tech by making it more accessible, intuitive, and impactful 🌍.

What is the role?

We’re looking for a Product Designer to join our team and make a meaningful impact in a fast-paced, highly collaborative product environment🚀. In this role, you’ll help shape the core experience of cmBuilder by crafting new experiences and continuously improving existing ones to make the product better for our users.

You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and other stakeholders to turn business goals, user needs, and creative strategy into user-centered, effective, intuitive, and visually polished experiences.

Just like us, you enjoy learning, being challenged, and challenging others to grow. You bring curiosity, strong opinions loosely held, and creative ideas to the table, using thoughtful design to solve real problems.🎯

Responsibilities

• Make a visible impact on the product by improving everyday usability and shaping new features, including ambiguous projects where you help define and craft solutions in close partnership with product management.
• Work directly with customers by planning and facilitating research, learning their language, and translating real-world problems into clear, actionable design direction.
• Operate with a high level of ownership and autonomy, driving projects forward, asking the right questions, making informed design decisions, and clearly communicating the reasoning behind them.
• Use a range of prototyping methods for iterative feedback and gathering insights.
• Communicate design concepts and decisions clearly to stakeholders, engineers, and collaborators.
• Collaborate closely with teammates, constructively challenging each other and holding the bar high for quality and craft.
• Contribute to and evolve our design system, using it consistently, maintaining it, and identifying opportunities to improve and extend it.

Requirements:
• 3+ years of experience in Product/UX/UI design.
• Strong user-centered design approach, with experience solving problems in complex or technical domains.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity, collaborating to help define problems and requirements, and not just execute predefined tasks.
• Has a technical mindset and curiosity about how designs get built. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you should ask good questions and collaborate effectively with engineers.
• Demonstrates curiosity and hands-on experience with emerging AI tools, especially for accelerating workflows, enhancing creativity, and gathering feedback.
• Experience working with design systems, including designing at a pattern level and creating frameworks others can build on.
• Strong UI craft, with a clear eye for clean design and disciplined use of proven industry and internal patterns.
• Knowledge of the construction industry is a plus, but not required.

When applying for this role, please attach your portfolio or leave a link to your portfolio in the questionnaire.

Benefits:
• $75,000 - $115,000 CAD yearly salary range (commensurate with relevant experience).
• Workplace: Onsite position at our office in Burnaby, BC; with Hybrid Flex Option (2 days WFH)
• First three months: In our Burnaby, BC office five days a week. After three months: Hybrid, with set in-office days.

Why Work with Us?

Here are a few reasons why we think working here is a good idea:

• Career Growth – Start making an impact right away within a growth-stage company with strong upward potential. Your skills will directly impact the trajectory of this company, allowing you to grow your career in a fast-paced, exciting work environment.
• Creative and Innovative Environment – Challenge the status quo! We want you to bring your ideas for automation and optimization of everything. We hold innovation/exploration days regularly to trade ideas, learn and create new R&D projects.
• Ownership of Projects – We want great people that want to take ownership of projects, make decisions and deliver great work to our clients.
• Fun Environment – Work hard and play hard. We are in business to build a great company, collaborate with amazing customers and have fun.

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At CadMakers, we believe great teams are built by people, not algorithms.

We do NOT use AI for reviewing your application. Your entire application will be reviewed by real-life human beings at CadMakers (this includes your answers to the application questions that we pose). We invest the time because the human touch matters in this crucial step, especially when finding people who fit our company culture and will help shape it as they grow with us. If AI plays a role later in the recruitment process, we’ll always be transparent and you’ll know because we’ll tell you.