About the role

  • Principal UX Designer shaping the design ecosystem at Upshop. Leading design practices and mentoring team members in UX strategies and systems design.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the Upshop Design Platform and System: components, guidelines, interaction language, motion principles, and shared patterns.
  • Partner with engineering to ensure consistency, scalability, performance, and technical feasibility at platform scale.
  • Define and document standards for how design is expressed across products — from tokens to complex state behaviors.
  • Advocate for accessibility, performance, and inclusive design across the system.
  • Create and iterate high-fidelity prototypes, interaction models, and design artifacts that clarify intent and drive alignment.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of UX / product design experience with a strong portfolio of work that demonstrates both strategic depth and craft excellence.
  • Experience creating and scaling design systems or shared UX platforms in complex multi-product portfolios across different medium (web, tablet, mobile)
  • Proven track record of mentoring designers and elevating team quality.
  • Hands-on design fluency: end-to-end interaction design, advanced prototyping (Figma), motion where applicable.
  • Deep systems thinking: ability to decompose and organize design patterns that scale across products and teams.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$120,000 - CA$170,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridMississaugaCanada

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