Senior Product Designer
Role Overview
Reports to the Director of Product Design and designs end-to-end experiences across GS1 Canada's digital product ecosystem.
Contributes throughout the product lifecycle, from problem definition and discovery through design, validation, delivery, and measurement.
Partners with Product Management, IMS Leads, Engineering, Business Analysis, and industry stakeholders.
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Role overview
Reports to the Director of Product Design and designs end-to-end experiences across GS1 Canada's digital product ecosystem.
Contributes throughout the product lifecycle, from problem definition and discovery through design, validation, delivery, and measurement.
Partners with Product Management, IMS Leads, Engineering, Business Analysis, and industry stakeholders.
Compensation
- Compensation is CA$90,000 to CA$100,000 per year.
Discovery and product design
- Define customer problems and product opportunities with Product Management and Engineering; conduct interviews, contextual research, and discovery workshops.
- Validate assumptions through rapid prototyping and concept testing; maintain personas and current-state and future-state journey maps.
- Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready interface specifications.
- Simplify data-heavy enterprise workflows while balancing customer needs, business objectives, accessibility, and technical constraints.
- Work with Engineering during implementation to confirm designs ship as intended.
Research and validation
- Plan and run usability testing with customers, account managers, and business stakeholders.
- Use analytics, customer feedback, and behavioural data to measure design efficacy and identify opportunities.
- Build evidence-based arguments for design decisions.
Design systems and accessibility
- Contribute reusable patterns, component definitions, documentation, and design tokens to the design system and reduce drift between design and code.
- Meet AODA requirements and WCAG 2.2 Level AA, building accessibility into designs from the start.
- Partner with Engineering to ensure accessibility requirements survive implementation.
Collaboration and leadership
- Define and refine Features, Product Backlog Items, and User Stories with product and engineering partners.
- Facilitate workshops, ideation sessions, and journey mapping.
- Present design rationale to leadership and external industry stakeholders using journeys, personas, and evidence.
- Contribute to design critique and advance the Product Design Community of Practice.
Skills and experience
- 5+ years designing digital products in agile, cross-functional teams, with end-to-end ownership from discovery through delivery.
- Portfolio demonstrating problem-solving, design process, and strong interaction and visual design.
- Experience with complex enterprise or SaaS applications, especially data-heavy workflows; strong interaction design, information architecture, and visual design capability.
- Experience planning and conducting customer research, usability testing, and design validation; systems thinking and ability to reduce complexity.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system.
- Working knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, AODA, and inclusive design practice.
- Proficiency with Figma and FigJam; familiarity with Storybook, Azure DevOps or Jira, and AI-assisted design tools.
- Working understanding of HTML and CSS to collaborate with front-end developers; strong facilitation, communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
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