Senior Illustrator, Design Foundations & AI Transformation

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

Lyft is looking for a Senior Illustrator to join Design Foundations, the infrastructure layer of Lyft's design organization. Illustration at Lyft is an integral part of the overall user experience. Our illustration system spans product surfaces, marketing, and brand, distributed through the Lyft Product Language (LPL) design system and shipped directly to code. You'll own the craft and execution of that system, partner closely with design, engineering, and marketing, and lead illustration work through a period of active brand migration and capability expansion.

This role reports to the Design Systems Manager and works alongside a contract illustrator, a dedicated DPM, and a tight-knit team of design systems practitioners.

Responsibilities:

• Execute illustration work across product surfaces: Rider, Driver, Marketing with a high craft bar and deep understanding of our system and style
• Lead ongoing brand migration work: moving existing illustrations into the updated style across multiple product verticals
• Own and maintain Lyft's illustration libraries in Figma — including organization, naming, publishing, and code handoff via LPL
• Develop motion design capabilities for illustrated assets; this is an emerging need and a real opportunity to define how Lyft's visual identity moves
• Manage the illustration intake process: triage requests, run office hours, set priorities alongside the DPM and manager
• Partner with (contract illustrator) on assignments — package work clearly, review output, and maintain quality and consistency across execution
• Collaborate with engineers to ship illustrations through LPL — SVGs to code, PRs reviewed, library updates published
• Work with Marketing, Brand, and Content teams to extend the illustration system beyond product surfaces
• Contribute to documentation, onboarding materials, and illustration guidelines so the system is legible to everyone who depends on it

Experience:

• 4+ years of professional illustration experience, ideally in a product or brand context
• Strong Figma skills, you work natively in Figma
• Demonstrated experience building or maintaining an illustration system, component library, or visual language at scale
• Comfort working directly with engineering: you understand how assets move from Figma to code and can own that handoff without hand-holding
• Motion or animation experience, or a genuine appetite to develop it.  After Effects, Lottie, or equivalent
• Ability to manage a varied workload: migration work, net-new requests, and system maintenance all at once
• Clear communicator: you can run a stakeholder review, give useful feedback to a contractor, and write a brief that someone can execute from
• Familiarity with design systems, or similar component-based systems a plus

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
• RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits and Lyft ride credits

Lyft is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter if you wish to make such a request.

Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week, including on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is CAD $129,000 - CAD $161,250, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

Lyft may use artificial intelligence to screen applicants, however, Lyft employees make the ultimate selection and hiring decisions.

This job fills an existing vacancy.