Posted 23 days ago
Senior Product Designer
@ GS1 Canada
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
GS1 Canada is hiring a Senior Product Designer to design end-to-end experiences across its digital products, from discovery through delivery and measurement. The role requires 5+ years of agile product design, enterprise or SaaS experience, and strong research and accessibility skills.
Pay:
$90,000–$100,000 a year
Responsibilities:
- Define customer problems and product opportunities
- Produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes and interface specifications
- Plan and run usability testing and design validation
- Contribute to GS1 Canada's design system
- Present design rationale to leadership and stakeholders
Requirements summary:
- 5+ years designing digital products in agile teams
- Portfolio showing end-to-end design process
- Experience with complex enterprise or SaaS applications
- Working knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA and AODA
- Proficiency with Figma and FigJam
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-15
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-16
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-16
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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GS1 Canada
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Transforming Supply Chain Since 1974
Full company description
GS1 Canada is part of GS1, the global not-for-profit organization behind the first barcode and the world's most widely used supply chain standards. GS1 Canada supports business success through global barcodes and the development of industry-directed solutions that meet common business needs. Their collaborative approach, powered by GS1 standards, delivers measurable value to Canadian businesses of all sizes. As a leader in product data quality, GS1 Canada ensures the seamless exchange of accurate, trusted data between trading partners, fostering operational excellence and consumer trust. By providing essential tools and insights, they empower industries to work smarter, reduce costs, and create a more sustainable future. To learn more about GS1 Canada and our leadership team, visit our website: https://gs1ca.org/about-us/
- LinkedIn followers
- 12,693
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 322
- Reported office locations
- 1500 Don Mills Road, Suite 800, Toronto, Ontario M3B 3K4, CA
- Business categories
- Service Industry
- Non Profit
- Supply Chain Management
- Other recorded names
- GS1 Canada
- Specialties
- supply chain
- global standards
- and barcodes
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- 0
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GS1 Canada is part of GS1, the global not-for-profit organization behind the first barcode and the world's most widely used supply chain standards. GS1 Canada supports business success through global barcodes and the development of industry-directed solutions that meet common business needs. Their collaborative approach, powered by GS1 standards, delivers measurable value to Canadian businesses of all sizes. As a…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-profit Organizations |
| Company size | 201-500 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Nonprofit |
| Year founded | 1997 |
| Specialties | supply chainglobal standardsand barcodes |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 4 |
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Reporting to the Director of Product Design, the Product Designer designs end-to-end experiences across GS1 Canada’s ecosystem of digital products. You’ll work across the product development lifecycle, contributing from problem definition and discovery through design, validation, delivery, and measurement.
You’ll partner closely with Product Management, IMS Leads, Engineering, Business Analysis, and industry stakeholders, working in alignment with GS1 Canada’s product development lifecycle standard. You’ll bring strong product design craft, curiosity, and customer focus to understanding problems, exploring solutions, and using evidence to inform design decisions.
Key Responsibilities
Discovery
- Help define customer problems and product opportunities with Product Management and Engineering.
- Support and conduct customer interviews, contextual research, and discovery workshops.
- Validate assumptions through rapid prototyping and concept testing before development begins.
- Maintain personas and journey maps across current-state and future-state contexts.
Product Design
- Produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready interface specifications.
- Simplify complex, data-heavy enterprise workflows into intuitive experiences.
- Balance customer needs, business objectives, accessibility, and technical constraints.
- Collaborate with Engineering through implementation to confirm designs ship as intended.
Research and Validation
- Plan and run usability testing with customers, account managers, and business stakeholders.
- Use analytics, customer feedback, and behavioural data to measure design efficacy and find opportunities.
- Build and defend evidence-based arguments for design decisions.
Design Systems and Accessibility
- Contribute reusable patterns, component definitions, documentation, and design tokens to GS1 Canada’s design system, and reduce drift between design and code.
- Deliver designs that meet AODA requirements and WCAG 2.2 Level AA, building accessibility in rather than remediating late.
- Partner with Engineering to confirm accessibility requirements survive implementation.
Collaboration and Leadership
- Define and refine work items (Features, Product Backlog Items, User Stories) with product and engineering partners.
- Facilitate workshops, ideation sessions, and journey mapping.
- Present design rationale to leadership and external industry stakeholders, framed with the journey, personas, and evidence behind the decisions.
- Contribute to design critique, and advance the Product Design Community of Practice.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- •5+ years designing digital products in agile, cross-functional teams, with demonstrated end-to-end ownership from discovery through delivery.
- Portfolio demonstrating approach to problem solving, design process, and excellence in interaction and visual design
- Experience designing complex enterprise or SaaS applications, particularly data-heavy workflows.
- Strong interaction design, information architecture, and visual design capability.
- Experience planning and conducting customer research, usability testing, and design validation.
- Systems thinking, with the ability to reduce complexity rather than accommodate it.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system.
- Working knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, AODA, and inclusive design practice.
- Proficiency with Figma and FigJam; familiarity with Storybook, Azure DevOps or Jira, and AI-assisted design tooling.
- Working understanding of HTML and CSS, sufficient to collaborate credibly with front-end developers.
- Strong facilitation, communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
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