Senior Product Designer, Design System

Position: Senior Product Designer, Design System - Tangerine
At Tangerine, we’re redefining banking. As Canada’s leading digital bank, we thrive on innovation, agility, and bold thinking, tackling every challenge head‑on with leading technology and the unstoppable power of collaboration. Our client‑obsessed teams deliver flexible, accessible banking solutions, breakthrough products, and award‑winning service. Beyond banking, we’re committed to making an impact in the communities we serve and across our organization.

We foster a culture built on integrity, inclusion, and fearless ambition – where diverse perspectives are valued, and people are empowered to do their best work. Are you ready to disrupt the status quo? Do you crave challenges that push boundaries? If you’re a high performer looking to accelerate your career and reimagine the banking landscape, this is your moment.

Let’s shape the future of banking together! At Tangerine we love rolling up our sleeves to tackle challenges, and we’re on a quest for ways to make banking not just better but brilliantly different. Building a career at Tangerine isn’t just a job; it’s a mission to transform the lives of Canadians.

Role Purpose
Our design team is expanding, and we’re seeking a Senior Product Designer, Design System to join our innovative and collaborative group. We are passionate about UX design and excel at creating exceptional user experiences. If you are skilled at transforming research, principles, and design patterns into scalable solutions that teams love, you are the one we want. As a Product Designer, you will play a crucial role in shaping and evolving the Tangerine Design System, enabling consistent, accessible, and scalable experiences across our digital ecosystem.

In support of Tangerine’s vision to make experiences more human, honest, and effortless, your mission is to create and maintain design foundations, components, patterns, and guidelines that empower product teams to deliver exceptional client experiences efficiently and consistently s role is ideal for a designer who is passionate about systems thinking, accessibility, governance, and creating scalable foundations that improve the quality and efficiency of product delivery across the organization.

Is this role right for you?

You are eager to lead in enhancing the usability, accessibility, and consistency of our internal and external products, ensuring top‑notch experiences for users.

You will design based on business requirements and align the creative strategy and client experience across product, design, and development teams.

You will conduct studies on usability, interaction, visual design, directional content, and information architecture.

Your design decisions will be driven by principles, customer insights, data, and business acumen.

Collaboration is second nature to you, whether it’s working with business stakeholders, fellow designers, engineers, or functional teams.

You will lead the evolution of the Tangerine Design System, ensuring it remains scalable, accessible, and aligned to business and client needs.

You will define, maintain, and continuously improve design foundations, design tokens, components, patterns, and documentation that support multiple product teams.

You will establish and contribute to design system governance, contribution models, and review frameworks to ensure consistency and quality across channels.

You will partner closely with Engineering to drive design‑to‑code alignment and ensure component implementation is scalable across Web, iOS, and Android platforms.

You will champion adoption of the Design System through reviews, documentation, education, and stakeholder engagement across the organization.

You will ensure the Design System reflects and reinforces Tangerine’s design principles and vision, helping teams create experiences that are more human, honest, and effortless.

You will design with accessibility in mind from the outset, ensuring solutions work for everyone.

You will proactively plan design activities, set expectations for timelines, and balance creativity with constraints.

You will mentor fellow designers, share best practices, and help elevate the craft across the Tangerine Design Chapter.

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