At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead innovative product design and development for injury relief solutions.
- Company: Join Sidekick, a trusted brand in rehabilitation and pain relief.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, performance bonuses, and hybrid work options.
- Other info: Fast-paced environment with opportunities for creativity and growth.
- Why this job: Shape impactful products that help people recover from injuries.
- Qualifications: Strong design skills, user research experience, and collaborative mindset.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 $ per year.
Hybrid (Toronto) | Full-Time | $80,000-$100,000 CAD
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
- 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
Senior Industrial Designer in Toronto employer: Sidekick
At Sidekick, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer dedicated to fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. As a fast-growing company focused on solving chronic pain, we offer competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits, and real performance data that empowers our employees to grow and excel in their roles. With a hybrid work model that promotes work-life balance, joining our team means contributing to meaningful projects while enjoying opportunities for professional development.
