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Salary: CAD 125,800 - 170,100 / annual
Jobber is a SaaS platform helping small home service businesses (plumbers, electricians, painters, landscapers) manage quoting, scheduling, invoicing, and payments. The company has grown from its first customer in 2011 to tens of thousands of users and has been recognized by Great Place to Work and named to Deloitte Canada's Technology Fast 50 and Globe and Mail's Canada's Top Growing Companies lists.
You will join the Foundations team, responsible for design systems, patterns, and surfaces that enable consistent, high-quality experiences across Jobber's product. In this role, you'll lead design system projects to create and refine UI components, interaction patterns, and design tokens that scale across web and mobile platforms. You'll work at the intersection of design, engineering, and systems thinking to help other teams build better experiences faster.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading design system projects to create and refine components, interaction patterns, and design tokens across web and mobile
- Applying Jobber's brand and experience principles through thoughtful visual and interaction design
- Identifying gaps in the system and proactively driving solutions that improve consistency and usability at scale
- Defining and evolving governance models, contribution processes, and best practices
- Partnering closely with Engineering to ensure high-quality implementation and improve how the system integrates with AI-backed design and development tools
- Collaborating with designers and product teams to support adoption and incorporate feedback
- Advocating for UX quality across the company to improve visual design, interaction design, accessibility, usability, and performance
- Contributing to a culture of collaboration, mentorship, feedback, and continuous improvement
The role involves thinking about how design systems operate in an evolving age of AI design and development. You'll lead projects and initiatives that raise standards for visual and interaction design, usability, and accessibility, while improving consistency and team velocity.
Requirements:
- Portfolio demonstrating design craft, systems thinking, and measurable impact on product quality or team efficiency
- 2–5 years of experience designing and evolving design systems, including work on components, patterns, tokens, and documentation
- Track record of leading projects or initiatives that improved design consistency and quality across a product
- Deep expertise in interaction design, UI patterns, and visual design
- Strong understanding of accessibility standards for web and/or mobile and how to embed them into systems
- Comfort collaborating closely with engineers and understanding how design translates to code
- Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, and frameworks like React)
- Experience with modern design tools like Figma (components, tokens, auto-layout, prototyping)
- Strong proficiency in today's evolving AI design landscape, including prototyping, shared libraries, and design documentation
- Strong judgment in making tradeoffs that scale across teams and use cases, balancing flexibility with standardization
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally and build alignment with designers, engineers, and product partners
Bonus qualifications:
- Experience scaling a design system in a fast-growing, multi-product environment
- Experience designing complex SaaS tools for B2B, especially for small-business customers (SMB)
- Coding skills including Typescript experience; ability to implement tokens and improve component quality hands-on
- Experience influencing strategy, aligning stakeholders, and driving adoption at scale
- Passion for blending roles, extending design into code and vice-versa
