Senior Product Designer

GS1 Canada

. Define customer problems and product opportunities with Product Management and Engineering .

Posted 10/16/2026full-timeToronto • CanadaSenior💰 CA$90,000 - CA$100,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing digital products with a focus on user experience, interaction design, and visual design, while ensuring compliance with AODA and WCAG 2.2 standards. Proficient in conducting customer research and usability testing to validate design decisions and improve product efficacy.

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User Experience DesignInteraction DesignUsability TestingFigma ProficiencyDesign System Maintenance

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Hard Skills

Digital Product DesignInformation ArchitectureVisual DesignPrototypingHTMLCSSAgile MethodologyData-Heavy Workflow DesignCustomer ResearchDesign Validation

Soft Skills

FacilitationCommunicationStorytellingStakeholder Management

Tools & Technologies

FigmaFigJamStorybookAzure DevOpsJira

Industry Keywords

AODA ComplianceWCAG 2.2Inclusive DesignEnterprise ApplicationsSaaS Applications

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Azure

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define customer problems and product opportunities with Product Management and Engineering
Support and conduct customer interviews, contextual research, and discovery workshops
Validate assumptions through rapid prototyping and concept testing
Maintain personas and journey maps across current-state and future-state contexts
Produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready interface specifications
Simplify complex, data-heavy enterprise workflows into intuitive experiences
Balance customer needs, business objectives, accessibility, and technical constraints
Collaborate with Engineering through implementation to confirm designs ship as intended
Plan and run usability testing with customers, account managers, and business stakeholders
Use analytics, customer feedback, and behavioural data to measure design efficacy
Contribute reusable patterns, component definitions, documentation, and design tokens to GS1 Canada’s design system
Deliver designs meeting AODA requirements and WCAG 2.2 Level AA
Define and refine Features, Product Backlog Items, and User Stories
Facilitate workshops, ideation sessions, and journey mapping
Present design rationale to leadership and external industry stakeholders
Contribute to design critique and advance the Product Design Community of Practice

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years designing digital products in agile, cross-functional teams, with demonstrated end-to-end ownership from discovery through delivery
Portfolio demonstrating approach to problem solving, design process, and excellence in interaction and visual design
Experience designing complex enterprise or SaaS applications, particularly 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, with the ability to reduce complexity rather than accommodate it
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 tooling
Working understanding of HTML and CSS, sufficient to collaborate credibly with front-end developers
Strong facilitation, communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills