02 Oct
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Yochana
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Montreal
Job Title: Sr. Product Designer (UX/UI)
Location: Montreal, Quebec (Onsite or Remote)
Job Type: 4-6 months (potential conversion to Full time)
Interview process: Teams Interview
Overview: As a Senior Product Designer with a hybrid focus on UX and UI, you will lead the end-to-end strategy, from experience architecture to visual design, for high-performing squads building human-led AI solutions. You'll champion user-centered design, balancing complex business goals with seamless, intuitive, and accessible experiences.
By defining and evolving scalable design systems, component libraries, and UI frameworks, you'll ensure consistency and efficiency across products, while applying inclusive practices and usability standards throughout all development cycles.
Your role bridges user research and actionable wireframes with high-fidelity UI, advanced prototyping, and motion design. You'll collaborate closely with engineering, product, and strategy teams—facilitating cross-functional alignment and continuous innovation. Through strong client partnerships, you’ll align design initiatives with business objectives, driving tangible value and reinforcing trust.
This position is ideal for a technically-minded designer passionate about systematic thinking, scalability, and delivering delightful, outcome-driven digital experiences.
Focus Areas:
- Lead Experience & System Architecture: Define information architecture and scalable design systems that showcase innovation, ensure logical navigation, and support consistent, accessible user experiences.
- Synthesize Insights & Validate Solutions: Translate user research and data into actionable insights, rapidly prototype concepts, and validate solutions to inform both client outcomes and future design assets.
- Technical Alignment & Feasibility: Align design, engineering, and product teams to ensure technical feasibility,
sustainable implementation, and scalable impact of complex user flows and UI components.
- Design & Deliver High-Quality Interfaces: Craft end-to-end UI flows, high-fidelity screens, and interaction patterns using established systems, ensuring interfaces are intuitive, responsive, and support human-led AI interactions.
- Iterate & Govern for Excellence: Apply usability testing and performance metrics to iterate on designs, uphold rigorous standards for quality and accessibility, and guide cross-functional adoption and governance of design systems.
Responsibilities:
- Champion User-Centered Design: Advocate for usability, accessibility, and inclusive design across product lifecycles, ensuring user needs and brand principles are reflected in both logic and visual systems.
- Foster Innovation & Design Culture: Encourage experimentation, bold ideas, and innovation within the team, maintaining a growth-oriented and transparent workplace that supports exploration and system evolution.
- Translate & Deliver Requirements: Convert complex business goals and user needs into compelling design visions, actionable roadmaps, and high-fidelity UI screens, ensuring clarity, alignment, and system coherence.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner extensively with engineering, product, research, and AI teams to align on requirements, ensure smooth handoff s, validate solutions, and deliver impactful, scalable outcomes.
Key Qualifications:
- Experience & Portfolio: Demonstrated experience (5-8+ years) leading UX/UI strategy and executing complex design projects, with a strong portfolio showcasing high-impact solutions and system thinking.
- Design Leadership: Proven ability to mentor, inspire, and influence designers on both craft and methodology, fostering a high-performance and collaborative culture.
- UCD & System Expertise: Deep expertise in user-centered design, information architecture, interaction, and visual design, with mastery of design systems and modern tools (e.g., Figma).
- Strategic Vision & Communication: Able to define a compelling design vision that aligns with business goals, articulate decisions clearly, and translate objectives into actionable outcomes and roadmaps.
- Collaboration & Accessibility: Exceptional ability to partner with cross-functional teams, manage stakeholders, and uphold rigorous standards for usability, accessibility, and inclusive design.
Preferred Qualifications:
- AI Product Experience: 2+ years working with AI-powered products or complex SaaS platforms, understanding unique design and interaction challenges.
- Agile & Change Adaptability: Experience working in agile, cross-functional teams and adapting to evolving requirements or technical shifts in fast-paced environments.
- Advanced Tools Proficiency: Mastery of the latest design and prototyping tools, especially Figma, and familiarity with advanced prototyping or AI integration.
- Global & Multilingual Design: Experience designing for international, multilingual, or localized products, considering accessibility, text expansion, and cultural impact on UI.
- Stakeholder Management: Strong ability to align and communicate with diverse stakeholders, guiding teams through change and system governance.
📌 Sr. Product Designer (UX/UI) (Montreal)
🏢 Yochana
📍 Montreal