Product Design Manager, Retail Classic
$150k - $170k USD
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Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place!
We’re looking for a Product Design Manager, Retail to join our Retail Classic pod. The Product Design Manager is responsible for leading a team to deliver high-impact outcomes on complex projects; focusing on team performance, driving execution, improving processes, mentoring team members and partnering with leadership to shape key initiatives.
You’ll play a critical role in improving and evolving the Retail Classic experience, ensuring it continues to meet the needs of merchants operating in fast-paced, data-rich environments. From checkout flows and reporting analytics to in-store customer displays and loyalty/gift card experiences, you’ll guide teams in creating cohesive, reliable, and intuitive experiences that drive merchant retention and long-term value.
This role requires strategic thinking as much as design craft. You will plan and allocate design resources across the most critical product initiatives, ensuring that improvements are focused on the highest-impact areas and that the overall experience remains consistent, usable, and commercially effective.
What you’ll be doing:
- Problem Solving: Translates complex business objectives into clear, actionable solutions—often identifying problems before they surface. Brings strategic thinking to both execution and problem framing, guiding teams to solve abstract challenges end-to-end. Proactively explores and integrates AI and emerging technologies to shape new approaches.
- Driving User-Centricity: Develops and communicates holistic design strategies grounded in both quantitative and qualitative insights. Partners closely with product managers to lead problem definition and ensure user needs remain central throughout the product development process.
- Embedding Systems Thinking: Demonstrates deep expertise in design system principles. AI integration and a strong grasp of industry standards. Leads teams in defining foundational components, evolving the design system, and ensuring it scales with quality and consistency across products.
- Coaching and Management: Provides mentorship and clear growth paths for each team member while fostering a high-performing, motivated team culture. Oversees project delivery, manages team workload and backlogs, and establishes processes that drive efficiency. Builds strong cross-functional relationships and holds a high bar for quality, accountability, and shared success.
You may be asked to contribute as part of the wider Lightspeed team to achieve organizational objectives even if this means doing things that aren’t strictly within the scope of your role!
What you need to bring:
- 4+ years of industry experience in a people management role on a Design team, experience in matrix organizations a plus.
- Foundational design-related education (Bachelor of Design, or Visual Arts, or Architecture, or Industrial Design, or Communication)
- An acute self-awareness and deep empathy - for both the customer and your team’s goals.
- A tenured, evolutionary perspective on technology, product, and design practices
- Applied experience within the retail industry- with strong service design foundations and a mindset of optimizing your design process for efficacy.
- An appetite (and the skill) for working across all digital and physical manifestations of what we design.
- A passion for mentoring executives, product managers, and engineers to deliver user-centered solutions.
- Excellent communication and data visualization skills. You can bring internal stakeholders on your design journey and support your decisions with focus and brevity.
- A deep curiosity and ability to consider product strategy and vision. You don’t just care about “how it looks,” or “what we should design,” but “why are we designing this at all?”
- Experience with Agile design sprint methodologies, tools, and processes as well as with the Jira platform
- Fluency with product, design, and prototyping tools such as Figma, Google Suite, Miro
You’ll enjoy:
- A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work
- A culture that celebrates performance
- The chance to make an impact in a team that’s big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard
- Career-defining opportunities
Plus benefits designed to keep you happy, healthy and fulfilled.
- Flexible paid time off and remote work policies
- Equity options, because this is your company too
- Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters
- Training opportunities to grow your skills and career
- Health and wellness credit so you feel your best
- Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
- Interest groups, employee led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams
- Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook
- Enhanced parental leave to support growing families
Fuel your growth. Find your people.
At Lightspeed, your growth is our priority. We invest in you with continuous learning opportunities, global mobility and benefits designed to support you—all within a driven, diverse and inclusive team that’s passionate about empowering our communities.
At Lightspeed, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your skill set, qualifications, experience, and market data. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We reasonably expect the total compensation for this position to be in the range of $150,000-$170,000 CAD. Lightspeed also provides a variety of employee benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, wellness, life and disability insurance, RRSP plan and match, paid parental leave top-up, and paid time off.Please note that this compensation information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within Ontario and reflects the amount Lightspeed is willing to pay at the time of this posting. This role represents an existing vacancy at Lightspeed. Lightspeed uses artificial intelligence–enabled tools to support certain aspects of the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by our recruiting and hiring teams.
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Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Where to from here?
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.
Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.
Who we are:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.
Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.
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