Product Designer, Montreal

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer with a strong focus on design systems to join our team on a contract basis.

• Maintain the Figma component library within the structured and standards set by the Design System Operations Lead, with attention to consistency, versioning, and ongoing quality.
• Oversee and implement design tokens within the established naming conventions and structural standards.
• Develop, organize, and maintain design tokens, reusable components, and scalable UI libraries.
• Maintain and evolve design documentation on models, standards, usage and best practices so the system stays understandable and usable for designers and developers alike.
• Build and refine pattern architecture and framework structures to support scalable product design.
• Triage and review incoming design requests and contribute with partnering closely with engineering and development teams to align design system implementation with technical feasibility.
• Ensure consistency and scalability of design patterns across multiple digital products and user flows.
• Ensure all system components meet WCAG standards and that accessibility is considered at the pattern level, not just applied after the fact.
• Review and audit existing components and flows, recommending improvements grounded in usability and technical feasibility.
• Stay current on design system tooling, patterns, and practices, and bring relevant improvements back to the team.
• Support and mentor future design hires within the team.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers, product teams, and stakeholders to evolve system needs based on product requirements.
• A portfolio that demonstrates your systems thinking, your design process, and real outcomes from your work, with clear examples of component libraries, tokens, or pattern work.
• A highly developed eye for detail, consistency, and quality at the pixel level.
• Proven experience building and maintaining component libraries and design tokens at scale.
• Strong command of Figma, including variables, component management, and library structures.
• A talent for bringing clarity and process to workflows that are still being defined.

• Experience working directly with engineering teams on design system implementation and handoff.
• Familiarity with front end frameworks/design implementation principles is highly preferred.
• Clear written communication skills, with the ability to document complex systems in plain language.
• Deep understanding of tokens, component libraries, pattern architecture, framework structures, responsive, platform agnostic design.
• Experience with marketing your design system to teams and ensuring adoption of design systems at scale.
• Background working within multi brand or multi platform product environments.
• A collaborative and comfortable attitude who is eager to find clever solutions to complex problems.
• A passion for consistency, usability, and design governance.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, or front end framework concepts that inform how you approach component design.
• Experience with design to development tooling and token pipelines.
• Exposure to contribution models and governance frameworks for large scale design systems.
• Experience with prototyping tools or similar such as Storybook for component documentation and interaction specs.
• Familiarity with tools like Content Stack and their impact for Design System guardrails.
• Experience applying motion and animation at scale within a design system, including defining reusable interaction patterns and transition standards.
• Familiarity with enterprise scale product ecosystems.
• Experience integrating AI into design workflows or systems optimization.
• Experience Migrating or Reworking systems at scale.