Product Designer, Design System in Toronto, Ontario

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What you’ll be doing

As Product Designer, Design Systems your focus will be working to enhance and maintain our existing design system. The ideal candidate will create a governance process for efficient team collaboration, refine and expand our library of components on Figma, ensure they are up-to-date, accessible, and aligned with best practices, and work with our development team to streamline components into our Storybook. This role involves close collaboration with the Product, Design, and Development teams to create a cohesive user experience across all digital platforms including Web and Native experiences. The Simplii Financial Design team conceptualizes and designs UX for customer-facing software applications. Your work on the Design System will play an integral role in shaping the future of our digital experience.

At Simplii Financial we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed during your interview.

How you’ll succeed

• Design Systems – Proven experience in building and contributing to impactful design systems, demonstrating ownership and advocacy that drive adoption across teams.

• Product Design – Expertise in design tools (especially Figma) and design systems, including tokens, theming, and UI components, WCAG accessibility standards with a strong foundation in visual and motion design.

• Project Management – Artistry and passion for Figma UI library maintenance and Storybook evolution, ensuring consistent component documentation handoff between platforms

• Collaboration – Collaborative mindset with a talent for synthesizing diverse perspectives, communicating decisions effectively, and simplifying complex concepts to meet customer needs within technical constraints

• Leadership – Ability to identify opportunities to improve processes internally and provide support and guidance to teams utilizing the Simplii Design System while advocating and driving adoption to new teams.

Who you are

• You can demonstrate experience in UX/UI projects for software applications. You have a minimum of 3 years of experience in this area; influencing critical decisions, setting project goals, and delivering creative artifacts with the right fidelity. Experience in Design Systems and proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud are an asset.

• You have a degree/diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, Industrial Design, Business, Information Studies, Cognitive Psychology, Product Design , or related fields.

• You’re digitally savvy. You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.

• You’re driven by collective success. You know that collaboration can transform a good idea into a great one. You understand the power of an inclusive team that enjoys working together to bring a shared vision to life.

• You embrace and advocate for change. You continuously evolve your thinking and how you work to deliver your best. 

• Values matter to you . You bring your real self to work, and you live our values – trust, teamwork, and accountability.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

• We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program, defined benefit pension plan, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.

• Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.

• We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.

*Subject to plan and program terms and conditions

What you need to know

• CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact [email protected]

• You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.

• We may ask you to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills tests (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency, MS Office). Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us.

Job Location

Toronto-161 Bay St., 4th

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

Accessibility Standards, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Design Systems, Figma, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), JavaScript, Researching, User Behavior, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI) Design, Wireframing

At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them. Our ability to create value for all CIBC stakeholders is driven by a business culture based on common values: Trust, Teamwork and Accountability.

Working with CIBC makes you a part of a work environment committed to our clients, employees and communities – a place where you can excel.

Every day, our 44,000 employees help our clients achieve their financial goals, because what matters to our clients, matters to us.