Senior Product Designer
- Company
- Meltwater
- Location
- Toronto, CA
- Work type
- Full Time
- Posted
- 2026-09-15
Job description
Description
What We’re Looking For:
We are seeking a Senior Product Designer to join our innovative team at Meltwater. This role ssis ideal for a passionate designer who thrives on setting new standards in UX and UI, leads with ownership, and leverages the latest GenAI technology to create best-in-class digital experiences. You will focus on comprehensive UX workflows, larger user journeys, and play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing our design system.
What You’ll Do:
Lead End-to-End UX Workflows: Own the design of complex, platform-wide user journeys, ensuring seamless UI and intuitive experiences that address both user and business needs.
Drive Design System Excellence: Set and evolve standards for our design system, creating scalable, reusable components and patterns that ensure consistency and efficiency across products.
Leverage GenAI Tools: Utilize advanced GenAI platforms (Claude, ChatGPT, Vercel) to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and workflow automation, driving innovation and efficiency.
Champion User-Centered Design: Integrate user research, persona development, journey mapping, and usability testing to inform design decisions and iterate rapidly based on insights.
Collaborate and Influence: Partner independently with key stakeholders, product managers, engineers, and executives to align on vision, strategy, and execution, advocating for user needs at every stage.
Set New Standards: Establish and evangelize best practices in UX/UI, accessibility, and modern design methodologies, mentoring and uplifting the broader design team.
Deliver with Precision: Produce pixel-perfect, development-ready assets, flows, wireframes, and final visuals, maintaining meticulous attention to detail and quality throughout the product lifecycle.
Lead Strategic Initiatives: Identify and pursue high-impact design opportunities, driving product innovation in emerging areas and ensuring business impact across global use cases.
Foster a Culture of Excellence: Inspire a passionate design mindset, continually seeking opportunities to elevate the user experience and championing a relentless pursuit of best-in-class solutions.
What You’ll Bring:
6+ years of experience in Product Design (UI/UX), with a strong background in enterprise-grade SaaS applications.
Strong verbal and written communication skills in English are required, as this role involves regular collaboration with global teams.
Mastery of Figma and modern design/prototyping tools.
Hands-on expertise with GenAI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT.
Proven leadership in setting and maintaining design systems and standards.
Portfolio demonstrating recent (last 1–2 years) product launches with a focus on UX workflows, large user journeys, and design systems.
Advanced user research skills: Experience building personas, mapping user journeys, and translating insights into actionable design solutions.
Exceptional communication: Ability to present, justify, and advocate for design decisions with stakeholders at all levels.
Independent ownership: Comfortable leading projects, making decisions, and driving outcomes with minimal supervision.
Collaborative mindset: Extensive experience partnering with engineering and product teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
Adaptability: Thrive in a fast-paced, evolving SaaS environment, responding quickly to change and ambiguity.
Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or a related field.
Bonus: Experience with React and third-party design system tools.
What We Value:
Design passion: Genuine enthusiasm for user experience, innovation, and elevating digital products.
Attention to detail: Relentless pursuit of quality and consistency in every aspect of design.
Leadership in design systems: Commitment to building, maintaining, and evangelizing scalable, cohesive design systems.
Ownership and initiative: Ability to independently drive projects and set new standards for design excellence.
What We Offer:
Flexible paid time off that allows you to have an enhanced work-life balance
Excellent medical, dental, and vision options
Complimentary CalmApp subscription for you and your loved ones, because mental wellness matters.
Energetic work environment with a hybrid work style, providing the balance you need.
Thrive within our inclusive community and seize ongoing professional development opportunities to elevate your career