Staff Product Designer, Design Systems Leader

Octopusapp Inc.; Edmonton, Toronto, Kitchener, Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 169,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobber Canada is seeking a Staff Product Designer to join the Foundations team, leading design system initiatives across our product suite on multiple platforms. You will shape and evolve our design system, patterns, and surfaces, guiding projects and collaborating with engineers and product teams.

You’ll mentor teams, advocate accessibility, and contribute to AI-backed design and development workflows, ensuring scalable, high-quality experiences across the business.

Qualifications

• A portfolio demonstrating your design craft, systems thinking, and measurable impact on product quality or team efficiency
• 5-10 years experience designing and evolving design systems, including work on major initiatives like system redesigns or creating new products
• A track record of leading complex projects or initiatives that improved design consistency and quality across an organization
• Deep expertise in interaction design, UI patterns, and visual design
• Deep understanding of accessibility standards across platforms
• Expertise collaborating closely with engineers and understanding how design translates to code
• Strong technical literacy with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, and frameworks like React)
• Strong expertise with Figma (components, tokens, auto-layout, prototyping)
• Strong opinions about the evolving AI design landscape, including how people design, prototype, share patterns, and document work
• A track record of making effective decisions that scale across organizations, balancing flexibility with standardization
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally across an organization, build alignment with senior leaders, and inform strategy

Responsibilities

• Lead design system initiatives to create systems of components and product-level interaction patterns that scale across platforms
• Be the steward of Jobber’s brand and experience principles, helping to foster thoughtful, high-quality visual and interaction design across the company
• Identify gaps in the system and proactively drive solutions that improve consistency and usability at scale, and raise the bar for UX quality
• Define and evolve governance models, contribution processes, and best practices
• Partner closely with Engineering leaders to raise implementation quality across the company, and to improve how we incorporate system best practices into AI-backed design and development tools and workflows
• Collaborate regularly with other designers and embed in product teams to support system adoption, share best practices, and to inform system iteration
• Steer UX quality initiatives and roadmap planning to improve visual design, interaction design, accessibility, usability, and performance
• Mentor others to build a strong culture of collaboration, feedback, and continuous improvement

Skills

Design systems

UI design

Figma

React

HTML/CSS

Design leadership

Tools

Typescript

Job description

Jobber Canada is seeking a Staff Product Designer to join the Foundations team, leading design system initiatives across our product suite on multiple platforms. You will shape and evolve our design system, patterns, and surfaces, guiding projects and collaborating with engineers and product teams.

You’ll mentor teams, advocate accessibility, and contribute to AI-backed design and development workflows, ensuring scalable, high-quality experiences across the business.