Senior UI/UX Designer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior UI/UX Designer based in Canada.

This is a high-impact design role focused on building and scaling a unified design system across a global SaaS product portfolio. You will combine hands-on design expertise with strategic influence, creating reusable components, design tokens, interaction patterns, and accessibility standards. Working closely with product designers and front-end engineers, you will help bridge the gap between design and implementation. You will also establish governance, documentation, and contribution practices that enable teams to work consistently and efficiently. The role offers the opportunity to shape design quality across multiple products while mentoring other designers and influencing technical and product decisions. You’ll join a distributed, collaborative environment that values autonomy, continuous learning, and thoughtful design.

• Own the end-to-end design and continuous evolution of the design system, covering foundations such as color, typography, spacing, iconography, motion, and complex interactive components.
• Build and maintain a scalable design-token architecture that connects design libraries with front-end implementation and promotes consistency across products.
• Define and document component specifications, usage guidelines, interaction patterns, accessibility requirements, and design rationale so engineering teams can implement solutions effectively.
• Partner closely with front-end engineers to develop reusable components that meet WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards and align with modern component-based technologies.
• Audit existing product interfaces, identify inconsistencies, create component inventories, and establish prioritized roadmaps for design-system coverage and improvement.
• Collaborate with product designers across multiple teams to understand requirements, validate new patterns, and ensure the design system evolves around real product needs.
• Establish and maintain governance practices covering contributions, versioning, deprecation, change management, and communication to keep the system scalable and trusted.
• Champion accessibility and inclusive design by embedding accessible patterns directly into system components and design specifications.
• Drive adoption through enablement sessions, Figma documentation, guidance, and ongoing support for designers and developers.
• Contribute to the development of the design-systems function by mentoring junior designers, supporting hiring decisions, and helping define how design quality and system effectiveness are measured.

Requirements:

• 5–8 years of UX/UI design experience, including at least 3 years focused on design systems or design infrastructure, preferably within B2B SaaS or enterprise software.
• Demonstrated experience creating and scaling design systems, including component libraries, design tokens, contribution models, and governance frameworks.
• Expert proficiency with Figma, including component variants, Auto Layout, Variables/design tokens, interactive prototyping, and library management.
• Strong understanding of front-end implementation constraints and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers using HTML, CSS, and component-based frameworks such as React, Angular, or Web Components.
• Practical knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards and experience embedding accessible design patterns into components from the specification stage.
• Experience establishing design-system governance, including versioning, deprecation workflows, contribution guidelines, and change communication.
• Strong documentation skills, with the ability to translate design intent into clear usage guidelines, annotated specifications, and decision rationale for engineering teams.
• Experience conducting UI audits, creating component inventories, and developing prioritized design-system roadmaps aligned with product and business objectives.
• Excellent collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to align designers and engineers around design-system decisions without relying on formal authority.
• Comfortable working with globally distributed teams across different time zones, working styles, and levels of design maturity.
• A degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline is preferred; equivalent professional experience will also be considered.
• Strong communication, mentoring, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management abilities, with a proactive and systems-oriented approach.

Benefits:

• Remote-first flexibility with the opportunity to work from Brazil, United States or Canada.
• Full-time permanent employment with a global, distributed team.
• Competitive compensation , with the advertised range of $50,000–$145,000 USD depending on location, experience, and qualifications; local compensation details may apply.
• Potential eligibility for additional compensation , including bonuses or commissions.
• Comprehensive benefits package , subject to location and employment terms.
• Opportunity to work on a global SaaS product portfolio and influence design standards across multiple products.
• Strong opportunities for professional growth, mentoring, and leadership development .
• Collaborative culture emphasizing autonomy, flexibility, inclusion, learning, and continuous improvement .
• Opportunity to shape and grow a design-systems function with broad organizational impact.