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title: 'Staff Product Designer at Air-tek'
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# Staff Product Designer at Air-tek

- **Company:** Air-tek
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/air-tek/4e2ead7b-8485-4c6b-997d-cf5f70b20796

## Job description

## About Us

Air-tek is a Canadian software company building a powerful suite of products for the global travel industry. Our products have achieved strong market traction, proven product-market fit, and growing demand from customers worldwide. While our customers know us well, we intentionally operate in stealth mode during this phase of growth.

Based in Toronto, our diverse team is united by a passion for solving complex problems and creating more passenger-centric travel experiences. Our culture is grounded in trust, collaboration, continuous learning, and a shared commitment to delivering exceptional products.

## The Role

As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead the design of complex, high-impact product experiences across enterprise platforms, administrative workflows, and consumer-facing travel products. You will operate as a strategic design leader—shaping product direction, raising the quality bar, scaling our design system, and mentoring fellow designers.

You will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and business stakeholders to turn ambiguous, complex problems into intuitive, scalable, and accessible experiences.

## Key Responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end design for complex enterprise, administrative, and consumer-facing product experiences.
- Translate product strategy, customer needs, and business goals into clear experience visions, user flows, and high-quality UI.
- Drive the design of new products and major product capabilities from early discovery through launch and iteration.
- Simplify complex workflows, information architecture, and systems into intuitive, efficient user experiences.
- Lead and facilitate discovery, ideation, design critiques, workshops, and stakeholder alignment sessions.
- Create and communicate sketches, wireframes, prototypes, screen flows, interaction specifications, and polished presentations.
- Own and evolve scalable design-system practices, including Figma component libraries, digital asset management, atomic design principles, and design governance.
- Establish and improve design processes that increase product delivery velocity, quality, and consistency.
- Partner closely with engineers to ensure design intent is implemented accurately and to identify practical, high-quality solutions.
- Advocate for the user throughout the product lifecycle, incorporating research, usability insights, analytics, and customer feedback.
- Provide design leadership and mentorship to other designers, helping raise the team’s craft, strategic thinking, and collaboration practices.
- Contribute to innovative product concepts, prototypes, and customer or prospect presentations that support the company roadmap.

## Qualifications

- 8+ years of experience in software product design, UX/UI design, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex product design work from discovery through delivery.
- Experience designing both enterprise/B2B software and consumer-facing digital products.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional interaction design, visual design, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Figma, including building and maintaining scalable component libraries and design systems.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design, UX research, information architecture, interaction design, and accessibility principles.
- Experience influencing product strategy and aligning cross-functional stakeholders around a shared design direction.
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment while managing multiple priorities.
- A collaborative, proactive, and ownership-driven mindset, with experience working in Agile product teams.
- A desire to continually learn, share knowledge, and help develop a strong design culture.

## Nice to Have

- Experience working in a startup, scale-up, or high-growth product organization.
- Experience designing complex enterprise platforms, workflow-heavy applications, or operational tools.
- Experience designing accessible digital experiences, including familiarity with WCAG standards.
- Familiarity with the airline, aviation, travel, or passenger-services ecosystem.
- Experience using research, analytics, and customer feedback to inform product decisions.
- Active participation in Toronto’s product-design community.

The salary range for this role is $140,000 to $180,000 annually. In addition to salary, new hires may be eligible to receive stock options. The salary range shared is intended as a guide; the final salary offered may vary based on factors including the experience and skillset of the candidate. Our company is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive salary that reflects the value an individual brings to the organization.

## About Air-tek

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Air-tek is a Canadian software company building a suite of products to automate and optimize airline operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (stealth mode)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (near Union Station)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Airline operations automation, travel technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – global airlines
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To reshape the passenger-centric travel industry through data-driven automation and innovation.

## Products & Services
- **Air-tek Operations Suite**: A set of unique, integrated software products that automate and optimize airline workflows. The suite is described as having strong product-market fit and is sold to a global customer base. Type: SaaS (cloud-based, mission-critical systems).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: No annual revenue or total funding figures are publicly available. The company states that “product-market fit is excellent, and customers are lining up to buy.”
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring – 16 open roles as of mid-2026, including engineering, product, and operations positions. The company operates in stealth mode while scaling, indicating a deliberate growth phase.

## Competitive Advantages
- Strong and validated product-market fit within a large global market.
- Operates in stealth, which may limit competitor visibility while building defensible moats.
- Focus on mission-critical airline operations creates high switching costs for customers.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the engineering team, particularly in integration and platform engineering, to support more airline customers efficiently.
- Building scalable, configurable integrations to reduce customization per customer.
- Continuing to expand the product suite and deepen automation capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- Work on meaningful, complex problems that power the backbone of the airline industry, impacting millions of passengers.
- High-trust, low-ego culture with autonomy and ownership over projects.
- Exposure to modern technologies: C# / .NET Core, TypeScript, React, Vue.js, Node.js, Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions.
- Hybrid work policy – three days per week in the Toronto office (near Union Station).
- Competitive compensation: Software Developer salary range $90,000 – $140,000 CAD annually, plus stock options.
- Culture built on trust, collaboration, and continuous personal growth.

## Sources
1. [jobs.lever.co/air-tek – Office Coordinator](https://jobs.lever.co/air-tek)
2. [scoutify.com/companies/air-tek/](https://scoutify.com/companies/air-tek/)
3. [jobs-radar.com/company/air-tek-6218](https://jobs-radar.com/company/air-tek-6218?offices=Toronto)
4. [jobs.lever.co/air-tek/14acb33a-bcea-4060-94aa-bf5ef5893e62 – Software Developer](https://jobs.lever.co/air-tek/14acb33a-bcea-4060-94aa-bf5ef5893e62)
5. [jobs.lever.co/air-tek/7fa08762-2ce3-4182-85b6-cab749b51687 – Senior Staff Software Engineer, Integrations](https://jobs.lever.co/air-tek/7fa08762-2ce3-4182-85b6-cab749b51687)

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