Design Systems Lead — Hybrid & AI-Driven UI Architect

Clio; Burnaby, Calgary, Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 154,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Hybrid work environment

20 days of time off per year

Counseling benefit $2000 annually

RRSP matching

RESP contribution

Clioversary program

Job summary

Clio is seeking a Product Design Manager, Design Systems, to lead a team focused on a scalable design system across web, mobile & desktop. The role emphasizes governance, token pipelines and platform-wide coherence, with close collaboration to Brand, Marketing and Engineering.

You will own onboarding, PLG patterns and a measurable system health framework while mentoring designers and contributing hands-on when it matters most. Hybrid Canada/US-based with in-office Anchor Days.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience at senior levels, including leadership of teams.
• Experience building and running a design system at scale with governance and versioning.
• Strong UX and visual craft with accessibility expertise (WCAG 2.1 AA).
• Technical fluency with design tokens, component architecture and front-end code.
• Experience partnering with Brand/Marketing on brand expression and multi-brand systems.
• Experience designing AI-powered experiences with trust and user control patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead the system's operating model: roadmap, intake, contribution, governance, versioning and health metrics across channels.
• Oversee onboarding and PLG patterns enabling autonomous growth experiments.
• Collaborate with Platform Eng and DS engineering on token pipelines and APIs; prototype in code when needed.
• Extend system governance across Web, mobile and desktop apps for coherence and platform-specific experiences.
• Partner with Brand/Marketing on theming and brand expression for Enterprise white-label experiences.

Skills

Product design leadership

Design systems governance

UX design

Accessibility (WCAG)

Design tokens

Frontend basics

Brand collaboration

AI UX patterns

Cross-functional facilitation

Tools

Figma

Claude

Job description

Clio is seeking a Product Design Manager, Design Systems, to lead a team focused on a scalable design system across web, mobile & desktop. The role emphasizes governance, token pipelines and platform-wide coherence, with close collaboration to Brand, Marketing and Engineering.

You will own onboarding, PLG patterns and a measurable system health framework while mentoring designers and contributing hands-on when it matters most. Hybrid Canada/US-based with in-office Anchor Days.