Senior Product Designer Employment Type: Full Time Reporting to the Director of Product Design, the Product Designer designs end-to-end experiences across GS1 Canada’s ecosystem of digital products. You’ll work across the product development lifecycle, contributing from problem definition and discovery through design, validation, delivery, and measurement. You’ll bring robust product design craft, curiosity, and customer focus to understanding problems, exploring solutions, and using evidence to inform design decisions.

Help 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 before development begins.

Product Design

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 and find opportunities. Build and defend evidence-based arguments for design decisions.

Design

Systems and Accessibility Contribute reusable patterns, component definitions, documentation,



and design tokens to GS1 Canada’s design system, and reduce drift between design and code. Deliver designs that meet AODA requirements and WCAG 2.2 Level AA, building accessibility in rather than remediating late. Partner with Engineering to confirm accessibility requirements survive implementation.

Present design rationale to leadership and external industry stakeholders, framed with the journey, personas, and evidence behind the decisions. Contribute to design critique, and advance the Product Design Community of Practice. 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. ~ Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system. ~ Working knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, AODA, and inclusive design practice. ~ 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. ~

📌 Senior Product Designer - User Experience (Toronto)
🏢 GS1 Canada
📍 Toronto