Designer - Design Systems

Base Salary Range: $95000 - $125000

Job Title: Designer, Design Systems
Job ID: 86001
Location: Toronto, Ontario - Hybrid


Overview:
Our client is a global leader in fund services, corporate governance and related asset services with staff across 80 offices worldwide. We are seeking an experienced Design System Designer to join a Design System squad to evolve our company-wide design system. In this role, you will ensure a cohesive, scalable, and accessible experience across digital products. You will partner closely with product designers, engineering, and platform teams to create, maintain, and document reusable UI components, design tokens, and patterns that reinforce our brand and design language. The position is based in Toronto and may require some international travel to other locations. The Design Systems Designer will report to the Design Director, and partner with existing designers, engineers, platform owners as well as various business stakeholders.


What you will be doing:

• Leverage the use of design tokens to build responsive components in Figma, component variants, patterns, templates in a scalable, enterprise-grade design system that supports the digital product ecosystem

• Define, document and maintain guidelines and best practices for component and pattern usage

• Partner with product designers, platform/product owners and engineering teams to align requirements, identify edge-cases for components and patterns

• Create high-fi prototypes to explore ideas and collaborate effectively with engineering during implementation

• Manage feedback and contribution requests as you partner with various product teams to understand their unique constraints, and integrate their needs into the Design System

• Train, onboard and enable teams to fully leverage the Design System

• Facilitate design reviews, audits, and contribution models, ensuring high-quality system evaluation

What you must have:

• You must have a Bachelor’s degree/certificate in HCI, Design, or similar discipline, or the equivalent education and experience

• 3 – 4 years of experience working on design systems, or enterprise product design

• Proven track record of working on an enterprise-wide design system within a large, global organization

• Strong command of typography, spacing, color theory, hierarchy, motion, and interaction design

• Deep expertise in UI/UX best practices, accessibility (WCAG), and design systems

• Experience level of experience working in Figma, or similar tools

Salary/Rate Range: CAD $95,000 - CAD $125,000


Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. If you are selected to move forward in the process, we will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us, we encourage you to continue visiting our website for other roles that may be a good fit.


For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com