Senior Product Designer

Vish; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Vish is seeking an experienced Product Designer to shape the user experience of our color management platform for salons. You’ll work with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to ensure the product feels cohesive with the Vish brand and scales as we grow.

You’ll influence the design direction, own major initiatives, and help builders translate ideas into elegant, repeatable designs. You’ll use Figma to define systems, collaborate with a small cross-functional team, mentor peers, and bring a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Product Design experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or startup environments.
• Fluent in Figma with strong auto-layout, components, and scalable systems.
• Ability to define information architecture and craft delightful micro-interactions.
• Clear communicator able to explain design rationale to engineers, PMs, and leadership.
• Comfort with ambiguity, fast pace, and ownership of design systems.
• Interest in AI-assisted design tools to boost speed and impact.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design for major product initiatives from concept through shipped experience.
• Set and raise the design bar, delivering scalable systems that users love.
• Build and evolve the design system to enable fast, consistent work.
• Partner with Marketing to keep the Vish brand cohesive across touchpoints.
• Engage with customers (salon owners, stylists, front desk) to translate workflows into elegant design.
• Mentor and collaborate with other designers to elevate the team’s craft.
• Translate broad ideas into concrete flows, prototypes, and specs for Engineering.
• Balance speed and craft within six-week Shape Up cycles.

Skills

Product design

Figma

Design systems

Information architecture

User research

Mentoring

AI design tools

Tools

Figma

Claude AI

Job description

Salons have always treated color like a cost to manage. Vish flips that: it’s the platform that turns color into the most profitable thing you do.

We’re not the new kid, we’re the system running behind the biggest salon names in North America, with operations reaching salons globally, and partners like L’Oréal, Redken, Moroccanoil, and SalonCentric already on board. And we didn’t just build software that checks a box. We built something salons actually like using.

Where You’ll Work

This is an in-office role, five days a week.

About the Role

You'll report directly to our VP of Product and work alongside a team of Product Managers, one other Product Designer, and Engineering to shape the everyday experience of thousands of salon professionals plus closely with Marketing, so what we say and what we ship feel like they come from the same brand.

This isn't a "make the mockups" seat. You'll help define how Vish looks, feels, and behaves as we grow, across a color management app used chairside every day and a webapp used to run entire businesses. You'll have real say in the craft bar we hold ourselves to, and real ownership over the systems that make that craft repeatable.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Owning end-to-end design for major product initiatives - from early concept and prototyping through shipped, polished experience - partnering closely with Product and Engineering the whole way.
• Setting and raising the design bar for Vish. You'll bring taste, rigor, and a point of view to a product used by people who've never had software built with them in mind.
• Building and evolving our design system so other designers can move fast without losing consistency or craft.
• Partnering with Marketing to keep the Vish brand cohesive from first ad to daily product use - same voice, same energy.
• Getting close to customers - salon owners, stylists, front desk staff - to understand real workflows and turn that understanding into simple, elegant design decisions.
• Mentoring and collaborating with our other Designers, creating a team that raises each other's bar rather than just dividing up the work.
• Translating ambiguous, broad ideas into concrete flows, prototypes, and specs Engineering can build from.
• Balancing speed and craft. We move in six-week cycles (Shape Up), and we need someone who can ship real, considered design inside that rhythm - not endless polish, not throwaway.

About You

• You've got 5+ years of Product Design experience, ideally in B2B SaaS, and ideally some of it in an early-to-mid-stage startup where you had to build the system as much as the screens.
• You're fluent in Figma - clean components, real auto-layout discipline, systems built to scale past just you.
• You have range: you're as comfortable defining an information architecture as you are pushing pixels on a delightful micro-interaction.
• You're a strong communicator. You can explain the "why" behind a design decision to an engineer, a PM, and a VP, and you can disagree productively when you think we're making the wrong call.
• You've got a point of view on good design and you're not afraid to push a team that defaults to "safe."
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and startup pace - nobody's handing you a fully-scoped brief every sprint.
• You're genuinely curious about using AI-assisted design tools (Claude, Figma Make, and whatever's next) to work faster and think bigger, not just faster.

Why You Should Join

• Real influence - you're not the fifth designer refining an established system, you're one of two people defining it.
• Work on a product real people depend on to run their business, in an industry that's only just starting to embrace software.
• A team that's fun, direct, and takes feedback seriously - no politics, no ego required.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and the kind of ownership that comes from joining early.