Staff Product Designer

Motion Recruitment is hiring a Staff Product Designer (Design Systems) to lead strategic design work across multiple product areas in a remote-first, fast-moving environment. This role focuses on shaping end-user experiences while building and scaling a design system that helps teams move with consistency and quality.

Working in close partnership with Product, Engineering, and leadership, you will help establish design standards, influence strategic decisions, and reinforce a design culture grounded in usability and business impact. The position is based in San Jose, CA with remote within Canada.

What you’ll do

• Own and drive end-to-end product design initiatives across multiple product areas
• Provide design system leadership, including shaping scalable design patterns, frameworks, and user experiences
• Partner with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap and strategic decisions
• Establish and evolve design standards across the organization
• Lead design work from discovery and research through delivery and iteration
• Maintain and expand a scalable design system used across multiple products and teams
• Create reusable components, interaction patterns, and documentation
• Collaborate with engineers to support high-quality implementation and consistency
• Simplify complex workflows into intuitive user experiences
• Facilitate stakeholder discussions and align teams around user and business needs
• Define best practices for design processes and team collaboration
• Mentor and support fellow designers through feedback, reviews, and coaching
• Influence product strategy through research, insights, and design leadership

What you bring

• 10+ years of product design experience in software, SaaS, or digital product organizations
• Significant experience building, managing, or scaling design systems
• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives independently
• Strong collaboration skills with Product, Engineering, and executive stakeholders
• Experience working on complex workflows and multi-surface product experiences
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Comfort working in fast-moving and evolving environments
• A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product ownership, systems thinking, complex problem solving, and measurable business and customer impact

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Fully remote within Canada
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Flexible vacation policy
• Opportunity to help shape product direction and design foundations at scale
• High-impact role with significant ownership and visibility

Nice to have

• Experience designing collaboration, productivity, workflow, or project management platforms
• Strong background in B2B SaaS products
• Experience designing scheduling, coordination, resource planning, or calendar-based workflows
• Familiarity with enterprise software and complex operational platforms
• Experience working in fully remote or distributed organizations
• Experience helping establish design practices, standards, and scalable team processes
• Previous experience mentoring designers or influencing design organizations
• Exposure to data-rich applications, dashboards, or operational tools

Additional information: Current opening: Yes. The team is remote-first and operates in a modern, collaborative, design-driven product development environment. Applicants must be authorized to work in Canada on a permanent full-time basis.