[Hiring] Staff UX Designer @Wagepoint

Role Description

We're looking for a talented Staff UX Designer who enjoys tackling hard problems and wants to create meaningful impact for small businesses across Canada. You'll balance hands-on design execution with cross-functional leadership, turning complex user needs into simple, accessible experiences that shape how small businesses experience payroll. You will report directly to our UX Design Manager.

• Set the bar for design craft, delivering prototypes and high-quality designs that other designers look to as the standard.
• Manage delivery across multiple projects, turning ambiguous, large-scale problems into clear plans and well-documented solutions.
• Apply broad systems thinking to your work, through information architecture, user flows, and other system maps that hold up across multiple products.
• Build strong, ongoing relationships with Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional partners, and represent UX in conversations with senior leaders.
• Drive standards and best practices in AI-assisted discovery and exploration.
• Champion the Wagepoint design system, contributing components and helping guide governance and adoption across the company.
• Play a key role in product strategy and vision, spotting new opportunities and challenging assumptions in discovery and planning sessions.
• Help define and evolve the UX team's standards, patterns, workflows, and tools.
• Own key team maturity programs and help in managing DesignOps initiatives alongside UX peers.
• Advocate for UX across the company, including accessibility, data-led decisions, and the processes that let UX do its best work.
• Mentor other designers, sharing constructive feedback in design reviews and helping others grow and develop.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in UX or product design, ideally in a SaaS or product-led environment.
• A strong portfolio of work showcasing design for complex data, multi-step forms, and UX in high trust scenarios.
• A track record of driving impact on high-priority, large-scale, and cross-team initiatives.
• Strong communication, story-telling, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience navigating ambiguity, taking initiative, and proactively solving problems.
• Experience facilitating workshops, planning projects, and estimating UX work.
• Experience contributing to or managing a corporate design system.
• A collaborative mindset and a genuine passion for mentorship and cross-functional partnership.
• Mastery of Figma, using variables, components, and libraries.
• Strong experience using Claude, Cursor, V0, Figma Make and similar AI tools.

Requirements

• Bonus points if you've used AI to combine design and code in your work.
• You’ve designed for complex regulated environments, including payroll and fintech.
• You can demonstrate strong motion, illustration, and visual design skills.

Benefits

• Impact: Dig in and directly contribute to Wagepoint’s growth and success.
• Culture: Work alongside a team that genuinely enjoys solving problems together, celebrates wins, supports one another through challenges, and still finds time for the occasional terrible joke.
• Growth: We believe learning is part of the job. We’re committed to helping you Get Better Every Day by offering professional development, new experiences, and career growth as we continue to evolve.
• Innovation: Curiosity and experimentation encouraged! Bring ideas, challenge assumptions, responsibly utilize AI, and help shape better ways of working.
• Remote: Work from wherever you do your best work. Wagepoint has always been remote-first, giving you flexibility, autonomy, and hopefully a little extra time with the people (and pets) you love.