Product Designer

Company description

Publicis Groupe Canada is the Canadian subsidiary of Publicis Groupe, the second largest communications group in the world and a global leader concentrated within four main activities: Communication, Media, Data and Technology. Publicis Groupe Canada represents the vision of a set of collaborative and integrated agencies that offer expertise and insightful services to many of the biggest brands in North America.

Publicis Groupe Canada is committed to its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion mandate which focuses on four pillars: Education, Talent Management, Outreach and Giving Back. Since the mandate's launch in 2020, they have made strong and continued growth in all their pillars including top-tier mental health benefits, regular education sessions for employees, six business resources groups for employees of various backgrounds and their allies and developing training and scholarships programs with POV and the Miami Ad School Canada. The Groupe also launched This Is The Job, an initiative designed to work with Canada's largest school boards to change the complexion of the marketing industry and inspire racialized teens and young adults to consider a career in the industry.

Canadian brands include: Publicis Canada (Publicis Canada, Hawkeye, Razorfish, Publicis Health, ThePubProductions, Nurun, Publicis Sports & Entertainment), Publicis Media (Starcom, Spark Foundry, Zenith), Leo Burnett (Leo Burnett Canada, Ove Brand Design, Leo Burnett Design), Saatchi & Saatchi (Saatchi & Saatchi Canada, Synergize, TPM), MSL Canada/North Strategic (North Strategic, MSL Canada, Notch Canada) and Publicis Sapient.

Overview

As a Product Designer with a hybrid focus on UX and UI, you will be a core contributor across UX architecture and visual design within a cross-functional product team in building enterprise AI solutions. You'll champion user-centered design, balancing complex business goals with seamless, intuitive, and accessible experiences. By contributing and evolving scalable design systems, component libraries, and UI frameworks, you'll ensure consistency and efficiency across products, while applying inclusive design practices and usability standards throughout all product development cycles.

Your role bridges product strategy and wireframes with high-fidelity UI design and advanced prototyping. You'll collaborate closely with engineering, product, and data teams to facilitate cross-functional alignment and continuous innovation. Through strong client partnerships, you’ll align design initiatives with business objectives, driving tangible value and reinforcing trust. This position is ideal for a technically-minded designer passionate about systematic thinking, scalability, and delivering delightful, outcome-driven digital experiences.

Responsibilities

Focus Areas:

• Lead Experience & System Architecture: Define information architecture and scalable design systems that showcase innovation, ensure logical navigation, and support consistent, accessible user experiences.
• Synthesize Insights & Validate Solutions: Translate user research and data into actionable insights, rapidly prototype concepts, and validate solutions to inform both client outcomes and future design assets.
• Technical Alignment & Feasibility: Align design, engineering, and product teams to ensure technical feasibility, sustainable implementation, and scalable impact of complex user flows and UI components.
• Design & Deliver High-Quality Interfaces: Craft end-to-end UI flows, high-fidelity screens, and interaction patterns using established systems, ensuring interfaces are intuitive, responsive, and support human-led AI interactions.
• Iterate & Govern for Excellence: Apply usability testing and performance metrics to iterate on designs, uphold rigorous standards for quality and accessibility, and guide cross-functional adoption and governance of design systems.

Responsibilities:

• Champion User-Centered Design: Advocate for usability, accessibility, and inclusive design across product lifecycles, ensuring user needs and brand principles are reflected in both logic and visual systems.
• Foster Innovation & Design Culture: Encourage experimentation, bold ideas, and innovation within the team, maintaining a growth-oriented and transparent environment that supports exploration and system evolution.
• Translate & Deliver Requirements: Convert complex business goals and user needs into compelling design visions, actionable roadmaps, and high-fidelity UI screens, ensuring clarity, alignment, and system coherence.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner extensively with engineering, product, research, and AI teams to align on requirements, ensure smooth handoffs, validate solutions, and deliver impactful, scalable outcomes.

Qualifications

Key Qualifications:

• Experience & Portfolio: Demonstrated experience (4+ years) in UX/UI design and executing complex design projects, with a strong portfolio showcasing SaaS product solutions.
• UCD & System Expertise: Deep expertise in user-centered design, information architecture, interaction, and visual design, with mastery of design systems and modern tools (e.g., Figma).
• Core UX & UI Design Expertise: Skilled in crafting intuitive, user-centered designs with a strong proficiency in Figma and adjacent design tools
• Collaboration & Accessibility: Exceptional ability to partner with cross-functional teams, manage stakeholders, and uphold rigorous standards for usability, accessibility, and inclusive design.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AI Product Experience: 2+ years working with AI-powered products or complex SaaS platforms, understanding unique design and interaction challenges.
• Agile & Change Adaptability: Experience working in agile, cross-functional teams and adapting to evolving requirements or technical shifts in fast-paced environments.
• Advanced Tools Proficiency: Mastery of the latest design and prototyping tools, especially Figma, and familiarity with advanced prototyping or AI integration.
• Global & Multilingual Design: Experience designing for international, multilingual, or localized products, considering accessibility, text expansion, and cultural impact on UI.
• Stakeholder Management: Strong ability to align and communicate with diverse stakeholders, guiding teams through change and system governance.

Additional information

Publicis Canada is committed to building a diverse workforce representative of our community. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply. If you require a specific accommodation please contact Human Resources at 416-925-7733 or by email atinquiries@publicisna.com