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Staff Product Designer, Design Systems – Foundations
Location
Canada
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$157.6K - $192.7K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems – Foundations
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• Own and evolve ZUI, Zipline's design system, including component architecture, design tokens, accessibility standards, documentation, and implementation quality. Partner closely with engineering to ensure the system evolves alongside our product and technical architecture. • Establish shared interaction patterns, mental models, and design principles that create consistency across the product. Translate learnings from product work into reusable systems, frameworks, and foundations that can scale across teams. • Build the documentation, guidance, and decision-making frameworks that help designers, engineers, and PMs work independently and consistently. Drive adoption of the design system and product foundations across the organization. • Contribute to complex product initiatives, influence long-term product direction, and help define how emerging technologies, including AI, are incorporated into our design practice and workflows.
Job Requirements
- Experience leading or significantly contributing to a design system at scale
- Strong systems thinking across interaction design, workflows, information architecture, and visual design
- Proven ability to drive alignment and adoption across cross-functional teams
- Excellent visual and interaction design craft
- Strong partnership with engineering and understanding of implementation constraints
- Comfort working in ambiguity and shaping long-term product foundations
- Interest in exploring how AI can improve design workflows and product development
- Nice to Have: Experience designing for frontline, retail, or operational workflows
- Experience in a platform, systems, or other cross-cutting design role
- Familiarity with modern design system governance and documentation practices
- Experience creating structured design context that can be leveraged by AI tools
Benefits
- Remote-first culture: Join a high-performing, fully remote team and work where you're comfortable
- Stock Options: Get meaningful ownership in a fast-growing, venture-backed company shaping the future of retail
- Time off: We believe rest fuels great work. Our flexible time-off policy gives you the freedom to take the breaks you need, when you need them—whether it's a long weekend or a well-deserved vacation. We'll also give you a monthly coffee-shop stipend to switch up your workspace and get inspired outside the office. And when you've been with us for five years? You'll earn a fully paid one-month sabbatical to truly unplug and reflect—we call it a thank-you for your impact and dedication
- Benefits: World-class medical, dental, and vision policies
- Team Connection: Annual company off-sites in fun locations. We've done New York, Costa Rica, Whistler, Palm Springs, San Diego, and Mexico City
- Volunteering: Every quarter, Zipliners get a paid day off to volunteer for a nonprofit of their choice
- Learning: We support continuous learning and provide unlimited access to our Udemy Business account
- Great humans, great work: Work with kind, collaborative teammates who care about doing meaningful work and making a real impact. We value diversity of all kinds and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives
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