You don't have to be a founder to be a part of startup culture. Startups at the DMZ are often on the lookout for programmers, sales talent, designers, and other skilled talent to join their teams. Interested in joining some of Toronto's most innovative businesses? Check out who's hiring below.
Ample Labs is a tech non-profit committed to using technology to empower individuals facing homelessness in Toronto and abroad. Our work started with broad research showing that even when experiencing homelessness, most people rely heavily on smartphones to find vital information. Chalmers our flagship product is a web-based chatbot that helps people find local services like free meals, overnight shelter, clothing and more based on your location in real-time. Chalmers has recently been featured on Forbes, Fast Company and Toronto Star.
Head over to www.chalmers.app to give Chalmers a try!
We’re looking for a Product Designer to join Ample Labs!
Your role as a Product Designer will be to design and enhance Ample Labs’ existing website, design features for our flagship product, Chalmers and more. You’ll become an early and foundational member of a high-impact user experience team whose shared goal is to build elegant, user-centric product solutions. You’ll passionately act as the voice of the user. You’ll relentlessly pursue ways to make our users’ lives easier. Whether you’re designing a new way for people to find services or creating an engaging onboarding flow, you’ll work closely with other Designers, Engineers, and Product Managers to find the boundaries of design problems, seeing them from multiple perspectives and advocating for simple and impactful solutions.
Design and prototype new features and experiences on Chalmers and new products.
Own all stages of the design process from concept, UX research through to development hand-off and assess how well features are being used by real users.
Solve product problems with a focus on the best user experience while balancing company goals, design cohesion, and ease of implementation.
Seek out, understand and incorporate qualitative and quantitative feedback throughout the design process and work with UX Researchers on this.
Work autonomously in a cross-functional, agile product group with Product Managers, Engineers, and Data Analysts to prioritize and build new features.
Design assets for our website, create decks, and other sales and marketing collateral.
What you should have
Strong portfolio showcasing your past work and process
You have at least 3+ years of experience designing modern consumer-focused products
You have experience managing a small-team (Less than 5) of UI/UX designers or design interns
You know how to plan and prioritize design work and assign it to people on your team
You have management experience and know-how to give direction, feedback, and groom your team so they are growing in their skills and areas they want to develop
Experience shipping mobile product in an agile environment on web-platforms
Passion for being involved in the big picture, while fearlessly diving into the details
Comfort with a fast-paced, agile development process
Demonstrated experience in both visual and interactive design
The ability to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle ambiguity
Experience working at scale with Design Systems
Who we’re looking for
You value impact-driven work
You’re passionate about what you do
You’re socially minded & genuinely care about the work we do
You’re proactive, a problem solver and go-getter
You’re collaborative and are a team player
You’re curious and self-motivated
You can adapt to change quickly
Duration & Hours
6-month contract, 30-40 hours a week
Available to start immediately
The Rumie Initiative is a non-profit that makes access to free digital education possible for underserved communities worldwide.
Our ideal candidate brings an extremely high level of creativity, passion, and leadership to the role. You will lead Rumie’s sales, corporate partnerships, fundraising, and stewardship activities. The candidate will work to achieve financial growth and sustainability of Rumie by effectively identifying, cultivating and securing new sales consistent with the organizational goals. You will play a key role in helping to bring digital education to communities who need it, by advocating their stories and also help transform the way corporate partners conduct their social responsibility by combining funding with skill-sharing.
Please send your resume, link to your portfolio, and a cover letter to careers@rumie.org
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Verto is moving the needle on healthcare sustainability and in so doing, enabling organizations to improve the quality of care they deliver. We believe our technology is revolutionizing the way healthcare is delivered across the world and we are looking for a Head of Sales to help lead the transformation to exceptional and personalized care for everyone. We welcome your interest and are excited for you to play an integral role in helping us to realize this vision.
As Head of Sales you will be responsible for hiring and coaching a team of individuals whose collective skills will support our customer engagement and acquisition goals across North America. As one would expect in a startup, your role will be multi-dimensional, leveraging your enterprise and industry sales and marketing experience, as well as your operational and people management skills.
We are looking for a customer centric leader whose growth mindset and strong work ethic come together to drive value realization to the healthcare industry through our revolutionary software platform.
What the job entails:
Why this job rocks:
Ample Labs is a tech non-profit committed to using technology to empower individuals facing homelessness in Toronto and abroad. Our work started with broad research showing that even when experiencing homelessness, most people rely heavily on smartphones to find vital information. Chalmers our flagship product is a web-based chatbot that helps people find local services like free meals, overnight shelter, clothing and more based on your location in real-time. Chalmers has recently been featured on Forbes, Fast Company and Toronto Star. Head over to www.chalmers.app to give Chalmers a try!
Ample Labs is seeking a full-time Full-Stack Developer who wants to use their powers for good to improve the lives of those facing homelessness. You will be working on making Chalmers better, faster, smarter and deploying it in new cities. We use AWS Lex + AWS Lambda on the backend, Vue.js on the frontend, and is deployed through Firebase. If you’re interested in creating social impact while you write code and think about the future of AI, chatbots and conversational interfaces then this job is for you.
AWS, Lambda, Vue.js, Node.js, SQL, Restful APIs
People management, mentoring & coaching other developers. Oversee volunteer developers
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We are looking for a hungry Business Development Representative with at least 1-2 years of experience to lead the sales process for Hyre. You’ll get to play a part in changing the world of event staffing by going digital. Your mission will be to connect, qualify, and ultimately create business opportunities with small as well as large hotel chains, event and conference venues and catering companies, mostly in Toronto. This is the first sales dedicated position that we are hiring for, hence there is tremendous growth potential for the appropriate candidate.