Senior Product Designer

About Blue J

A Note on Location

The Opportunity

• Are excited to be part of a lean design team and help set the direction for our design systems and standards.
• Have experience shipping thoughtful, user-centered products and can show how your work made an impact.
• Enjoy collaborating across teams, building strong relationships with developers, PMs, and stakeholders.
• Love solving challenging design problems and turning complexity into simple, intuitive experiences.
• Are comfortable wearing multiple hats - from designer to systems thinker to front-end contributor - to bring great ideas to life.
• Value curiosity, creativity, and collaboration — and bring a positive, playful spirit to your work.

What You’ll be Doing

• Support in the design process: research, discovery, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and developer handoff.
• Building and maintaining a design system, style guide, and component library that scales with our growing product.
• Partnering with Product and Engineering to translate ideas into thoughtful, user-friendly solutions.
• Conducting user interviews and usability testing, using feedback to refine and improve the experience.
• Connecting directly with customers to ensure solutions meet real-world needs and stay easy to use.
• Creating interactive prototypes to validate ideas quickly and collaboratively.
• Iterating on designs based on feedback, performance data, and usability insights.
• Contributing to front-end code (HTML, CSS, React) to speed up delivery and ensure fidelity.
• Improving Figma workflows and documentation to make life easier for the whole team.
• Advocating for great design across the organization and sharing knowledge to raise the bar for everyone.

What You Offer Blue J

• 5+ years in UX/UI or Product Design, with a portfolio of impactful, shipped products.
• Experience building and scaling design systems and encouraging adoption across teams.
• Comfort with modern design tools (Figma, Miro, Jira) and strong familiarity with front-end code (HTML/CSS/React).
• A collaborative approach to working with developers, product managers, and stakeholders in an agile environment.
• Clear communication skills and a thoughtful approach to explaining design decisions.
• A passion for usability, accessibility, and creating experiences that delight users.
• A proactive, solution-oriented mindset — you see opportunities to make things better and act on them.

What We Offer You

• The opportunity to establish and grow our in-house design practice from the ground up.
• A mission-driven culture where your work helps make complex tax research faster, clearer, and more accessible.
• Competitive base salary, stock options, and benefits to support you and your family.
• A hybrid work model with flexibility and periodic in-person collaboration in Toronto.
• A team that is collaborative, ambitious, and supportive — we value innovation, respect, and a sense of fun.
• The energy and excitement of a fast-growing, well-funded company with the resources to invest in bold ideas.

The Core Values that Define Our Culture

• We are customer-focused
• We put the team interest before self-interest
• We are pleasant and playful
• We are open to better ideas
• We deliver on our promises
• We solve the toughest problems

What to Expect in the Interview Process

Interview Process

• Chat with Nancy, Sr. Talent Acquisition Manager 
• Share your Portfolio
• Meet with Adam, VP, Product and Nicole, Sr Product Designer
• Meet with Adam, Nicole and Matt our CPO
• Meet Ben, our CEO