Senior Visual Designer - Design Systems

Jobsanywhere; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading audio streaming service is seeking a Senior Visual Designer in Toronto. You will shape the future of the design system, applying exceptional design skills and innovation in collaboration with cross-functional teams. The role emphasizes AI tooling and inclusivity, with the flexibility to work from home and in-person meetings as needed.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated exceptional visual design skills with a keen eye for craft.
• Embraces using AI and new technologies in design.
• Experience working in-house at consumer digital product companies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain digital applications.
• Implement AI-driven solutions for design improvements.
• Provide resources for design best practices to the design community.

Skills

Exceptional visual design skills

Experience with AI and creative tooling

Familiarity with design systems

Experience in consumer-facing digital products

Valuing inclusive design and accessibility

Problem-solving skills

Job description

Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Visual Designer to join Spotify’s central Design Systems team. In this role, you’ll help shape the future of Encore—Spotify’s design system that powers both our design tools and accessibility efforts. You’ll bring ideas to life with excellent visual design, and find smart, practical ways to improve how designers work—through better tooling, AI, and more efficient ways of building. You care deeply about graphic design and user interfaces, and understand how they are served by design systems. You listen closely to your teammates and the people who use your work, and you lead with thoughtful, high-quality design that sets a strong example for others.

Responsibilities

• Work day-to-day in a cross-functional team of engineers, designers including content designer and staff typographer, producers and product managers to build and maintain the foundational building blocks of Spotify’s digital applications.
• Set new standards for visual craft and execution across our product.
• Proactively explore and implement AI-driven solutions — you understand how to use AI to input the right context to create desirable design outputs.
• Partner with product designers around the company to develop and improve styles and patterns.
• Build work that scales and flexes across a variety of audiences, devices, platforms and form factors ranging from phones over laptop computers to game consoles, connected fridges and cars
• Empower our internal community of 100+ globally distributed designers by providing resources and clarity around Spotify’s design and accessibility best practices.
• Be autonomous. You take full ownership of your work and drive your personal development. You care for every last detail, every step of the way.

Qualifications

• You demonstrate exceptional visual design skills with a keen eye for craft, clarity, and consistency - bringing innovation to interaction, spacing, and visual storytelling.
• You embrace the usage AI and new technologies, and have experience building workflow automations and creative tooling.
• You are familiar and comfortable working within and contributing to large design systems that you may or may not own directly.
• You have experience working in-house for consumer-facing digital product companies.
• You value inclusive design and accessibility and don’t believe it has to mean compromising aesthetics.
• You are a thoughtful designer and problem solver who questions the status quo and strives for improvement.
• You have an online portfolio or PDF that you can share with us.

Where You'll Be

• This role is based in Toronto, Canada.
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.