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FRESHBOOKS
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Lead Product Designer, Mobile
Full-timePosted 2 days ago
About This Role
About The Role
As a Lead Product Designer, Mobile at Freshbooks You will own the end-to-end mobile design experience for our cross-platform product, shaping how small business owners manage their finances on the go. You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, and Design partners to deliver intuitive, mobile-first solutions that align with real user workflows. In this role, you’ll bridge desktop and mobile experiences while taking advantage of the unique capabilities of mobile platforms. You will advocate for high-quality, platform-compliant design and help align cross-functional teams through clear communication and collaboration.
NOTE: This role can be worked remotely from the above locations.
What You'll Do
Compensation
At FreshBooks, we approach each individual's compensation with a promise of fair market value and internal equity commensurate with experience and specific skill set.
The total compensation for this role ranges from CA$105,000 - CA$132,000 per year, which may include participation in our incentive programs. Additionally, this position offers an equity grant and immediate enrollment in FreshBooks' comprehensive benefits program, detailed below.
Perks And Benefits
We understand that you'll weigh many factors when deciding if FreshBooks is the right next step in your career. Here are some of our offerings for our employees (we call ourselves ✨ FreshBookers✨) to support their growth:
You've probably learned a bit about FreshBooks before making it to this point, but let us take a moment to introduce ourselves: At FreshBooks, we believe that small business owners are the backbone of the economy, yet they are often the most underserved when it comes to technology. For over 20 years, we’ve been on a mission to support owners, from the scrappy solopreneur with a big dream to the growing business with employees to manage.
Our leading platform is more than just business software; it’s an all-in-one financial toolkit that automates invoicing, expenses, payments and payroll, allowing our customers to spend less time on paperwork and more time doing the work they love.
We believe in human-centric connections that empower teams to do their best work. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, our team operates in clusters across North America and Europe using a variety of working environments - remote, hybrid, and in-office - all based on what’s best for the team, collaboration, and mental well-being. We are committed to creating a supportive and flexible workplace where everyone can thrive, grow, and make an impact on the lives of small business owners worldwide.
Even if your experience doesn't meet every bullet on the above lists, we'd love to learn more about you and why you think FreshBooks is the next step in your career. FreshBooks is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, religion, race, mental disability, sexual orientation, age, or any other status. All applicants are considered based on their qualifications and merits. At FreshBooks, we inspire an environment of mutual respect and we believe diversity and inclusion are crucial to our success. FreshBooks provides employment accommodation during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please indicate this on your application and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any questions, suggestions or required documents regarding accessibility in a different format, please contact us by phone at 1-416-780-2700 and/or email at accessibility@freshbooks.com.
As a Lead Product Designer, Mobile at Freshbooks You will own the end-to-end mobile design experience for our cross-platform product, shaping how small business owners manage their finances on the go. You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, and Design partners to deliver intuitive, mobile-first solutions that align with real user workflows. In this role, you’ll bridge desktop and mobile experiences while taking advantage of the unique capabilities of mobile platforms. You will advocate for high-quality, platform-compliant design and help align cross-functional teams through clear communication and collaboration.
NOTE: This role can be worked remotely from the above locations.
What You'll Do
- Champion the end-to-end mobile experience for our cross-platform product, translating complex user needs into elegant, high-fidelity mobile designs and prototypes using Figma.
- Lead mobile-focused discovery and research to deeply understand how small business owners manage their work away from the desk, synthesizing insights into actionable artifacts.
- Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering to explore and leverage mobile-specific technologies, shaping not just how features look, but why and when they should exist on mobile.
- Advocate for mobile-first thinking by ensuring solutions are intuitive, platform-compliant, and thoughtfully aligned with real user workflows.
- Serve as a mobile subject matter expert across teams, collaborating to ensure features are designed with mobile constraints and opportunities in mind from day one.
- Actively contribute to and evolve our mobile design system and Figma component libraries, raising the bar for quality, consistency, and scalability.
- Facilitate strong cross-functional alignment by translating technical constraints into design opportunities and proactively addressing misalignments.
- A compelling portfolio demonstrating deep experience designing cross-platform mobile products that have successfully scaled.
- A nuanced understanding of mobile interaction best practices, with fluency in both iOS and Android Human Interface Guidelines.
- Mastery of Figma, including building and maintaining high-quality designs within complex component libraries.
- Experience leading and synthesizing user research, with a strong ability to uncover the “why” behind user behavior.
- Strong systems thinking, ensuring design patterns remain coherent, scalable, and consistent across platforms and devices.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design rationale to Product and Engineering partners.
- The ability to work independently and proactively while staying closely aligned with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience working with or designing for React Native, with an understanding of its capabilities and constraints.
- Experience designing B2B SaaS or FinTech products.
- A track record of contributing to cross-platform mobile products that have scaled within complex product ecosystems.
Compensation
At FreshBooks, we approach each individual's compensation with a promise of fair market value and internal equity commensurate with experience and specific skill set.
The total compensation for this role ranges from CA$105,000 - CA$132,000 per year, which may include participation in our incentive programs. Additionally, this position offers an equity grant and immediate enrollment in FreshBooks' comprehensive benefits program, detailed below.
Perks And Benefits
We understand that you'll weigh many factors when deciding if FreshBooks is the right next step in your career. Here are some of our offerings for our employees (we call ourselves ✨ FreshBookers✨) to support their growth:
- 🩺 Comprehensive health and wellness benefits. Generous time off including a flexible vacation plan, a retirement savings program or pension plan matched to your local office, stock options for every full-time employee, parental leave and new parent support, annual healthy living credit, comprehensive medical and dental benefits, fertility and gender-affirming benefits dependent on your region, and more.
- 📚 Perks that matter. Including a Peer Recognition Program, an Employee Assistance Program, headphone credit, meaningful in-person gatherings to bring onsite and remote employees together, and more perks matched to your local cluster.
- 🌱 Working environments to help you thrive. Beautiful office spaces welcome you in Toronto, Amsterdam, and San Luis Potosi. If you don't have access to a FreshBooks office, you receive a home office credit to set up your home office.
- 🤗 Supportive peer group, mentors, and leaders. We care about each other across the organization and have programs to support this so everyone feels a strong sense of belonging, and believes in collective impact.
- 🚀 Accelerated growth. Comprehensive company onboarding, career development through continuous coaching, training, and learning on the job.
You've probably learned a bit about FreshBooks before making it to this point, but let us take a moment to introduce ourselves: At FreshBooks, we believe that small business owners are the backbone of the economy, yet they are often the most underserved when it comes to technology. For over 20 years, we’ve been on a mission to support owners, from the scrappy solopreneur with a big dream to the growing business with employees to manage.
Our leading platform is more than just business software; it’s an all-in-one financial toolkit that automates invoicing, expenses, payments and payroll, allowing our customers to spend less time on paperwork and more time doing the work they love.
We believe in human-centric connections that empower teams to do their best work. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, our team operates in clusters across North America and Europe using a variety of working environments - remote, hybrid, and in-office - all based on what’s best for the team, collaboration, and mental well-being. We are committed to creating a supportive and flexible workplace where everyone can thrive, grow, and make an impact on the lives of small business owners worldwide.
Even if your experience doesn't meet every bullet on the above lists, we'd love to learn more about you and why you think FreshBooks is the next step in your career. FreshBooks is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, religion, race, mental disability, sexual orientation, age, or any other status. All applicants are considered based on their qualifications and merits. At FreshBooks, we inspire an environment of mutual respect and we believe diversity and inclusion are crucial to our success. FreshBooks provides employment accommodation during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please indicate this on your application and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any questions, suggestions or required documents regarding accessibility in a different format, please contact us by phone at 1-416-780-2700 and/or email at accessibility@freshbooks.com.