Responsibilities
- Define and enforce a unified design system across all Canary product surfaces — components, spacing, typography, color, layout patterns, and page-level templates
- Establish clear information hierarchy standards so every page communicates priority, status, and action with zero ambiguity
- Build design principles rigid enough to be programmatically enforced and flexible enough to serve diverse hospitality workflows
- Create specifications precise enough that AI coding agents can generate UI that meets your bar without human review
- Audit existing surfaces ruthlessly and drive convergence toward a single coherent system
- Partner closely with engineering and product to make the design system the source of truth — not a side artifact
- Think deeply about how AI agents (voice, chat, autonomous) interact with and present Canary's UI, and design for that as a first-class use case
Requirements
- 8+ years in Product Design with 3+ years leading teams directly
- Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end systems thinking, exceptional product craft, and shipped work at scale across web and mobile is essential
- Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain diverse design talent. Strength in feedback, coaching, and org-building
- Strong partner to Product and Engineering. Comfortable in ambiguity, rapid iteration, and enterprise constraints
- Fluency in design systems, accessibility, UX research methods, and experimentation. Familiarity with analytics tools
- Meticulous, opinionated, and able to hold the line on standards while moving fast
- Comfortable being both hands-on (Figma, tokens, specs) and strategic (principles, governance, cross-pod alignment)
Nice to Have
- Experience operating in B2B or B2B2C SaaS preferred
- You are inspired by companies like Rippling, Linear, or Stripe where systematic design creates product clarity
- Excited by the idea that your design system becomes the rulebook for AI agents building and operating UI
Benefits
- Canary Days: As a company we want to ensure that the team has time to recharge. Each month we provide company wide days off to ensure there is at least one extended weekend or day off.
- Self Improvement Club: We meet each month and share our personal goals for the month. Each individual is provided a budget towards any purchases that help us achieve these goals.
- Professional Development Chats: We provide budget to help drive cross functional professional development conversations across the organization.
- Travel Reimbursement: Team members are able to visit our offices across New York, San Francisco or Dallas when they choose, and are provided a travel stipend for doing so.
- Personal Travel Reimbursement: If you stay at a hotel that Canary works with, we provide a credit towards your stay.
Compensation
Target cash compensation ranges from $250,000-$290,000, including a fixed annual salary and a performance-based bonus paid quarterly. This role also includes a stock option grant, subject to board approval. Actual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's skill level, experience, and specific work location.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — New York, San Francisco, Dallas
Additional Information
- Canary Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote talent regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other protected characteristic.
- We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
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