Senior Industrial Designer

Hybrid (Toronto) | Full-Time | $80,000-$100,000 CAD

Our Core Values

Results Oriented  - you own the outcome and do whatever it takes to deliver it.

Effective Above All  - we focus on the highest-leverage work and make it count.

Best in Class  - we hold elite standards; good enough isn’t.

Customer-Obsessed  - every decision is made in service of the customer’s success.

About Sidekick
At Sidekick, our mission is simple: help people recover faster from persistent injuries. Trusted by Olympic champions and everyday individuals, our products have been featured in Men’s Health, Running Magazine, and more. With 94% of users reporting relief from chronic pain, we’re on a mission to become the go-to injury relief brand.

About the Role
As we continue to grow our line of rehabilitation and pain relief products, we're looking for an Industrial Designer to lead concept development and design execution across our product portfolio. You'll be the creative engine behind our product line — generating innovative concepts, building and testing prototypes, and refining products based on real user feedback. You'll work closely with our Product Manager, physiotherapists, and manufacturing partners to bring products from brief to golden sample.

Key Responsibilities
1) Concept Development Phase

Generate 10-20+ diverse product concepts per brief, exploring varied mechanisms, materials, and ergonomic approaches

Conduct benchmarking and ergonomic research to inform concept direction

Rapidly visualize and communicate concepts through sketching, rendering, or quick mockups

Build early-stage mockups to validate mechanisms and usability before committing to a direction

Lead structured focus group testing sessions and synthesize ergonomic and user value feedback

Refine comfort, usability, aesthetics, and interaction design based on testing outcomes

Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing partners to optimize designs for production

Support development of the golden sample, ensuring the final design meets quality and manufacturability standards

Skills, Experience & Ideal Fit

Prolific concept generator  - you explore the full solution space before converging, not just iterating on what exists

Strong visual communicator  - sketches, renders, or whatever gets the idea across quickly

Hands-on prototyper  - comfortable with foam, fabric, off-the-shelf hardware, 3D printing, whatever the fidelity calls for

Hard and soft goods experience  - our products combine rigid structures with textiles and straps, so both matter

Understands manufacturability  - you think about tooling, tolerances, and assembly from the start, not at handoff

User-research capable  - you can run a focus group, synthesize feedback, and translate it into design decisions

Collaborative  - you'll work within a structured process alongside PMs, physios, and engineers, not in isolation

Competitive compensation + Performance-based bonus

Dedicated, collaborative, and supportive colleagues

Fast-paced, dynamic environment

Opportunity to shape entire product lines from concept through production

Hybrid with work-from-home days

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