Principal Product Designer

Compass Digital; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Principal Product Designer with extensive experience in design systems and SaaS platforms. In this pivotal role, you will lead the development of design standards and contribute to a positive design culture. Your expertise in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will be essential as you work cross-functionally to create harmonious user experiences. This role offers the opportunity to influence the visual language of products and champion accessible design practices. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to crafting exceptional digital experiences.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with design systems across multiple products.
• 10+ years in SaaS cloud-based platform design.

Responsibilities

• Manage and contribute to design systems and component libraries.
• Collaborate with teams to create blueprints for design.

Skills

Design Systems Management

SaaS Cloud-Based Platform Design

HTML, CSS, JS

Visual Language Understanding

Strong Communication Skills

Job description

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Now, if you were to come on board as a Principal Product Designer, we’d ask you to do the following:

1. Hands-on experience managing and contributing to design systems. From building components to maintaining component libraries, you’ve done it.
2. Thoughtful and strategic thinking that will contribute to future experiences for all products.
3. Inspiration to those around you, promoting a positive design culture through coaching, mentoring, collaboration, and vision-setting.
4. Partnership in Information architecture, working with Product Designers and Technical Architects on multiple products to create blueprints for design teams to work from.
5. Partnership in visual design working with product designers to create, maintain and articulate the visual language of our products in alignment with the Brand and Marketing teams.
6. Cross-functional expertise, working with different Compass Digital teams to implement efficient & harmonious experiences across all products.
7. Leadership in content with an ability to develop and execute robust content strategy, terminology alignment, and UI taxonomy for all products.
8. Partnership in Accessibility and can champion accessible design practices for our organization.

Think you have what it takes to be our Principal Product Designer? We’re committed to hiring the best talent for the role. Here’s how we’ll know you are the best fit:

1. 4+ years of experience with design systems or experience design standards across multiple products and technology stacks.
2. 10+ years working in SaaS cloud-based platform design experience.
3. Proven track record of crafting, launching, and maintaining design standards and systems at scale in complex organizations.
4. Front–end foundational expertise – understanding of HTML, CSS, JS and component frameworks.
5. Understanding of visual language and art direction.
6. Strong written, presentation and verbal communication skills. Proven ability to communicate complex systems design into intuitive stories at a level appropriate to the audience (design system users, engineering partners, product partners, senior management, and executives).
7. A curious mindset that can only rest once it’s found the answer.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering, Product Management, and Design

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting, Design Services, and IT System Custom Software Development

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