Principal Product Designer

• Compensation Philosophy – Competitive pay aligned with experience and market standards
• Discretionary Annual Bonus – Rewarding both individual and company performance
• Comprehensive Benefits – Health and dental coverage with premiums fully paid, plus access to an Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement Plans – Helping you plan and save for the future
• Hybrid Work Environment – Flexibility to balance remote and in-office collaboration; enjoy our corporate HQ spaces designed for teamwork and creativity
• Perks and Rewards – Tuition reimbursement, professional development support, discounts through Perkopolis, and recognition programs that celebrate your impact

• →Own the strategy, roadmap, architecture, and governance of the Money Mart experience system across digital products and channels.
• →Define and maintain contribution, review, approval, release, and deprecation processes for components, patterns, variants, and shared experience standards.
• →Ensure system decisions support long-term scalability across web, app, portal, assisted channels, future U.S. expansion, and evolving brand expressions.
• →Define accessible interaction standards, design requirements, and reusable acceptance criteria across product design.
• →Establish guidance for keyboard interaction, focus management, screen readers, text resizing, colour contrast, errors, forms, cognitive load, and assistive-technology behaviour.
• →Partner with product designers, engineering, QA, compliance, and the UX Lead to identify and resolve material accessibility or customer-risk issues.
• →Translate brand foundations into scalable digital-product behaviour, including interaction principles, visual language, reusable patterns, and digital theming.
• →Partner with marketing and brand to maintain consistency while ensuring product design owns how the brand behaves within customer-facing digital products.
• →Support future multi-brand and market-specific expressions without unnecessarily duplicating the core interaction system.
• →Partner closely with the design system engineer and product engineering teams to maintain alignment between Figma, design tokens, coded components, Storybook, and production behaviour.
• →Define experience requirements for component APIs, states, interactions, and accessibility.
• →Identify and resolve design-to-code discrepancies, duplicated implementation, hard-coded values, and system gaps discovered through product delivery.
• →Establish shared quality standards for reusable components, interaction patterns, accessibility, and design-system implementation.
• →Maintain clear documentation and guidance so product designers and engineers understand how to use, contribute to, and evolve the system.
• →Support design reviews, system contribution reviews, education, and adoption across teams.
• →Use design QA and implementation evidence to identify recurring quality problems and prioritise improvements.
• →Coach product designers on system thinking, accessibility, interaction standards, reusable patterns, and contribution practices.
• →Facilitate Experience Foundations reviews and contribute to design and engineering governance.
• →Use product evidence, adoption data, quality signals, accessibility findings, and emerging technology to continuously improve the experience system.
• →Explore responsible AI-assisted workflows where they reduce repetitive work, improve documentation, strengthen quality checks, or support design-to-code consistency without replacing accountable design judgement.

• 7+ years of related product design, UX, or interaction-design experience, including substantial senior-level ownership.
• Demonstrated experience building, scaling, or governing a design system or shared experience foundation across multiple products or teams.
• Experience defining reusable components, interaction patterns, contribution processes, documentation, and governance standards.
• Strong practical experience applying accessibility requirements to product design and reusable interaction patterns.
• Experience partnering closely with engineering on coded components, design tokens, component behaviour, technical constraints, and design-to-code parity.
• Experience influencing multiple teams and stakeholders without relying on formal authority.
• Experience identifying systemic design-quality issues and turning them into scalable standards or reusable solutions.
• Experience communicating complex design-system and product-quality decisions to product, engineering, marketing, QA, compliance, and leadership.

• Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction, interaction design, user experience, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

• Experience in financial services, fintech, insurance, healthcare, or another regulated or high-trust environment.
• Experience with large-scale or multi-product design systems.
• Experience supporting multiple brands, themes, markets, or localisation requirements.
• Experience with Storybook, ZeroHeight, or equivalent design-system documentation and engineering platforms.
• Experience establishing accessibility governance or accessible component standards.
• Experience mentoring product designers and improving system adoption across teams.
• Experience measuring design-system adoption, quality, reuse, accessibility, or implementation efficiency.

• Postgraduate coursework or advanced training in human-computer interaction, accessibility, design systems, service design, interaction design, or digital product strategy.
• Accessibility certification or advanced training such as IAAP CPACC/WAS, WCAG/AODA training, or equivalent.
• Advanced education or certification related to design systems, interaction design, inclusive design, or product strategy is an asset.

Committed to Equal Opportunity: 
 
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