Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
Apply on ClioClio is hiring a Staff Product Designer for its Design Systems team, open to candidates across Canada (excluding Quebec) and the US, with two office days per week for anyone near the Burnaby, Calgary or Toronto hubs. The role owns the vision and evolution of Clio's design system as it enters an AI-first era, acting as both product owner and design practitioner for the shared foundations behind every customer-facing experience. It covers AI interaction models, streaming states, content voice, brand expression and the heuristics needed to evaluate intelligent systems.
AI skillsThis role asks for AI & agentic skills, exactly what we teach at Into Design SystemsWhat you'll do
- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define experience strategy, success metrics and high-leverage priorities
- Translate complex workflows and constraints into clear direction and durable experience decisions
- Lead end-to-end design across multi-surface journeys from opportunity framing to prototyping, validation and execution
- Shape a long-term experience vision for the problem space and bring others along through storytelling
- Raise the quality bar with cohesive, accessible and scalable experiences across the product ecosystem
- Drive consistency and leverage across teams by strengthening patterns, frameworks and design system evolution
- Help teams navigate ambiguity through facilitation, decision framing and cross-functional collaboration
- Mentor and elevate other designers through critique, coaching and role-modelling strategic thinking
- Contribute to design culture and org-wide initiatives through Staff-level forums
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of product design experience, B2B SaaS preferred but not required
- Proven ability to design scalable experiences across multiple customer segments or products
- Experience leading complex cross-team initiatives across interconnected systems
- Track record of shipping high-quality work that solves customer problems and moves product metrics
- Deep mastery of UX craft: complex interaction design, information architecture, usability and visual design
- Proven experience designing AI-powered experiences with interaction patterns for trust, transparency and user control
- Systems thinking: reusable frameworks and patterns that scale across teams and products
- Practical fluency with AI tools in the workflow such as Figma Make, Cursor and Gemini
- Experience taking a design system from functional to foundational, including documentation and architecture
- Shipped interaction patterns for AI features: streaming states, citations, confidence signaling, refusals and error recovery
- Experience mentoring peers and aligning leaders as a facilitator
Learn the skills this role asks for
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