Who We AreAt Momentum Financial Services Group, we help people move forward by reimagining how money works for those who need it most. With more than 40 years of experience, we’re the team behind Money Mart—Canada’s largest non-bank branch network—and a leader in financial solutions for underserved communities.
From short-term loans to money transfers and prepaid cards, we power the products, technology, and operations that connect millions of customers each year to the money they need, when they need it.
Whether you’re solving problems, building systems, or shaping strategy, your work fuels real support for real people.
Compensation Philosophy – Competitive pay aligned with experience and market standardsDiscretionary Annual Bonus – Rewarding both individual and company performanceComprehensive Benefits – Health and dental coverage with premiums fully paid, plus access to an Employee Assistance ProgramRetirement Plans – Helping you plan and save for the futureHybrid Work Environment – Flexibility to balance remote and in-office collaboration; enjoy our corporate HQ spaces designed for teamwork and creativityPerks and Rewards – Tuition reimbursement, career development support, discounts through Perkopolis, and recognition programs that celebrate your impactPlease note the salary for this opportunity is C$100,000-C$120,000The Job: Principal Product DesignerTo build and govern the shared design foundations that enable product design and engineering to deliver accessible, consistent, reusable, and high-quality customer experiences at scale. Own the strategy, roadmap, architecture, and governance of the Money Mart experience system across digital products and channels.
Ensure system decisions support long-term scalability across web, app, portal, assisted channels, future U.
Define accessible interaction standards,



design requirements, and reusable acceptance criteria across product design.
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.
Partner closely with the design system engineer and product engineering teams to maintain alignment between Figma, design tokens, coded components, Storybook, and production behaviour.
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.
What You’ll Bring to the TableRequired7+ 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.
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 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.
Experience with large-scale or multi-product design systems.
Experience with Storybook, ZeroHeight, or equivalent design-system documentation and engineering platforms.
Experience mentoring product designers and improving system adoption across teams.
Experience measuring design-system adoption, quality, reuse, accessibility, or implementation efficiency.
Education + Professional AccreditationsRequiredBache

📌 Principal Product Designer (Canada)
🏢 Momentum Financial Services Group
📍 Canada