Staff Systems Design Engineer (Hybrid - 2 to 3 days onsite per week) 

Overview:

Lead the evolution of Weedmaps' design system through an incredible period of opportunity. We’re looking for a transformative and visionary designer, with exceptional taste and craft, to collaborate in leading efforts to modernize the Weedmaps customer experience. 

This role unifies design and code at the intersection of Design, Engineering, and AI tooling, to evolve, operationalize, and scale the system while modernizing it and transforming it. Our goal is that this work will continually accelerate design and development, maintain high standards for craft and usability, align with engineering architecture, and enable consistent app-wide changes. Success will require a highly collaborative individual, eager to partner with Creative (new brand shifts, cohesion, continual evolution), Product Design (new feature development, iteration) and Engineering (CI/CD, tokens, tooling), to ensure system adoption and power the product experience.

The impact you'll make:

• Define and evolve the multi-platform system (web + mobile) with clear architecture, governance, and scalability principles.
• Own the roadmap and prioritization based on product needs, adoption gaps, and system performance.
• Partner with Design and Creative leadership to ensure high craft, modern interaction patterns, and resilience to ongoing brand evolution.
• Design and implement core system components, defining intuitive, flexible, and scalable APIs, variants, and composition patterns.
• Ensure high standards for visual precision, fidelity, accessibility (React Aria), and interaction quality, motion, and state management.
• Continuously refine components based on product usage and edge cases.
• Implement automated quality systems, including visual regression testing, and continuously audit the system for usability and craft excellence. Act as a cross-functional steward of system quality.
• Lead migration of legacy UI and ensure critical product surfaces (e.g., CTAs, checkout flows) are powered by the system, actively increasing adoption across the ecosystem.
• Establish a best-in-class tool-to-code pipeline (Figma, Claude, Builder, etc.) to map design artifacts to production components and prevent drift.
• Partner with Engineering on architectural decisions (CI/CD, token systems, distribution infrastructure) and support enforcement mechanisms (linting, token constraints) to maintain system integrity.
• Introduce and standardize AI-assisted workflows, in partnership with Engineering , to structuring components for AI-friendly generation and integrating tools (Builder.io, Claude, etc.) to improve consistency.
• Mentor designers and engineers and create documentation that allows teams to move quickly within a well-governed system.
• Identify strategic innovation opportunities, prototype new interaction models/motion systems, and codify successful innovations into the design system.

What you've accomplished:

• 7+ years in front-end, design, or creative engineering, with strong mobile focus (iOS/Android).
• Proven track record building and scaling design systems and component libraries across multiple teams/products.
• Knowledge of React (Web) and React Native, and modern front-end architecture.
• Deep understanding of design craft (typography, motion, interaction, visual systems).
• Experience driving adoption of shared systems and implementing design-to-code pipelines (tokens, Figma integration).
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to align Design, Engineering, and Creative stakeholders.

Bonus points: 

• Experience working on marketplace, e-commerce, or consumer platforms.
• Familiarity with Storybook, visual regression tools, and token management systems.
• Experience translating brand systems into scalable product UI.
• Exposure to AI-native development environments and workflows.
• Passion for building systems that balance craft, scalability, and speed.

What Success Looks Like:

• Achieve measurable increase in system adoption and reduction in custom UI, ensuring core experiences (e.g., CTAs, checkout) are powered by shared components.
• Enable teams to ship UI faster and with higher consistency.
• Maintain tight alignment between Design and code, minimizing drift.
• Seamlessly translate brand updates into product through the system.
• Establish efficient AI-assisted workflows for both Design and Engineering.
• The product delivers a cohesive, modern, and high-quality user experience.

Why You’ll Love It Here:

• Shape product development at scale, operating at the center of Design, Engineering, and Creative.
• Work with modern infrastructure to define how AI, design systems, and product development converge.
• Build systems that power millions of user experiences.
• Thrive in a culture that values craft, collaboration, and innovation.

The base pay range for this position is $186,251 - $208,959 per year

 2026 US Benefits for Full Time, Regular Employees:

• Physical Health (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• 100% employer-paid premium for employees
• Up to 80% coverage for dependents
• Company HSA contribution with the High Deductible Health Plan
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (employer will match contribution up to 3.5% of employee contribution)
• Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance options
• Supplemental, voluntary benefits
• Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings with a monthly company contribution
• FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Identity theft protection
• Legal access to a network of attorneys
• PTO, paid sick leave, and company holidays (including a 2026 holiday shutdown)
• Paid parental leave

We are hiring a Creative Director, Design to lead visual storytelling for one of the most consequential brands in American life — the place millions turn when they're navigating the biggest financial and emotional decision they'll ever make.

The Brand Bureau, our in-house brand and creative organization, has been operating for years with a strong, proud culture built on deeply understanding our audiences and producing creative that moves the business. The VP, Brand and Creative leads the business; you'll lead the creative evolution alongside our Creative Director for Copy. The team you're inheriting is talented and ready. They need inspiration, coaching, and organization to make the leap from strong work to category-defining work. You're a working creative leader — still in the work, still in the craft, still the person in the room people look at when the idea needs to get sharper.

You'll set the creative vision for the brand's visual expression and the team's craft trajectory — the kind of vision the team can see, believe in, and build toward. You'll lead the design and art direction across 15+ integrated campaigns a year, spanning consumer (B2C) and client (B2B) audiences across paid, owned, and earned channels. You'll be a senior creative voice on our flagship celebrity platform with Reba McEntire; leading the visual craft across the surfaces our team owns and shaping its evolution as the platform matures. And you'll set the visual standard for the everyday work that compounds into a brand the category can't ignore.

Why Now

The brand has earned the right to swing big. Nearly Home with Reba McEntire became an Effie Finalist in its first year. Mission Zero gave the brand a purpose platform with real cultural weight. The work is landing. The category is paying attention. And the team is hungry to do more.

In the last twelve months we've expanded The Bureau's remit to own both consumer and client brand under one creative roof. We split our brand strategy function into dedicated Consumer and Client roles, brought in a Creative Director, Copy from YETI, and added a Senior Manager, Brand Operations with dedicated Program Managers to match the scale and complexity of the work. The Austin design and copy bench has grown alongside teammates who've shaped this brand for 10+ years — institutional knowledge meeting fresh perspective.

The strategy bench is built. The platforms are working. The operating system is evolving. We need a creative leader ready to take the visual craft of this brand somewhere it hasn't been yet.

What You'll Do:

For the Work: Lead design and art direction across 15+ integrated campaigns a year — consumer brand, client brand, product marketing, CRM, social, and corporate communication. Serve as a senior creative voice, leading the visual craft across the surfaces our team owns. Champion big idea platforms that earn cultural attention and move the business. Hold a high bar on briefs, production, and the visual language that carries the brand across every touchpoint.

For the Team: Lead a team that's talented and proud of its work — and ready for a leader who inspires, listens, and acts on what they hear. Give feedback that makes the work better and the maker stronger. Invest in structured development, not just mentorship in the margins. Cast people to briefs that match their strengths and stretch their range. Earn trust through consistency, candor, and follow-through. Build the kind of creative culture people fight to be part of — collaborative, generous, craft-obsessed, and unafraid of the swing.

For the Brand: Be the visual steward of a national brand in motion. Partner with internal and external collaborators — agencies, directors, production houses, influencers — as creative peers, not vendors. Hold consistency across consumer and client work without flattening creative ambition. Balance the breakthrough campaign moments with the daily craft that builds brand equity quarter after quarter.

For AI-Enabled Craft: Treat AI as a creative leadership responsibility, not an experiment. Set the vision for how tools like Gemini, Claude, and Figma MCP get woven into the team's daily practice to expand craft and unlock capacity so the team spends more of its day on concepting and creative strategy and less on work that machines can credibly carry, and the output gets better as a result. You'll partner with Neil and the Senior Manager, Brand Operations to identify where AI multiplies craft and where it doesn't belong while empowering your ACDs to push the practice forward. 

For the Partnership: Operate as a peer to the Creative Director, Copy — co-leading the creative function and the creative transformation. Work shoulder-to-shoulder with our Consumer and Client Brand Strategists to translate insight into platforms. Partner with the Senior Manager, Brand Operations and the Consumer and Client Program Managers to make ambitious work deliverable. Collaborate with Marketing, Product, Customer, and Communications leaders across the company.

The Team You'll Lead:

You'll lead a design team of Art Directors, on-staff designers, a Principal Motion Designer, multiple contract designers and a video editor — supported by dedicated Program Managers and our Senior Manager, Brand Operations. The team handles the full spectrum of in-house production: social video, all display and digital takeovers, print, OOH, B2B campaigns, and CRM. There's room to bring in collaborators you've worked with and expand the ecosystem of partners the team works with.

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of design and art direction experience across agency and in-house creative teams
• 5+ years leading and managing creative teams, including senior individual contributors and Associate Creative Directors
• A portfolio of big idea platforms that hold up across TV, digital, OOH, and social — with craft excellence and business impact
• A problem-solver's instinct — you make ambiguous briefs clearer, broken processes smoother, and hard creative calls easier for the team to land.
• Mastery of the fundamentals: art direction, typography, photography, visual identity, and layout
• Strong fluency in video and motion — confident shaping film concepts, directing on set, and partnering with editors and post production
• Proven ability to lead both consumer and B2B work without sacrificing creative ambition
• Experience inspiring and coaching established teams through creative evolution — bringing energy and structure without disrupting what's already working
• A point of view on AI in creative practice — what it's good for, what it isn't, and how to make a team better with it
• Clear creative taste, strong opinions held loosely, and a generous instinct for mentorship
• Experience working with external agency partners, directors, and production houses as creative peers

What Success Looks Like:

Nearly Home keeps evolving with visual craft that builds on the Effie Finalist foundation and extends across new channels and cultural moments. Consumer and client campaigns share a coherent visual language while flexing for very different audiences. Your Art Directors and designers are growing into the next generation of creative leadership at Realtor.com®. AI is woven into how the Bureau works, freeing the team to spend meaningfully more time on concepting and creative strategy, with output quality moving up alongside throughput. The team is producing work they're proud of — and the industry is noticing.

Why This Role Matters:

Realtor.com® helps people find their way home. That's not small. The brand has earned attention, the team has earned trust, and the work is starting to land in ways that matter. This role is about taking all of that — the platforms, the people, the proof points — and making the leap from "brand on the rise" to the brand the category measures itself against.

If that sounds like the swing you've been waiting to take, we should talk.

How We Reward You:

Realtor.com® is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

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Principal UX Designer 

About Upshop 

Upshop is the market leader in Total Store Operations solutions for the Grocery and C-Store markets. We offer an AI-powered, SaaS platform connecting Fresh, Center, eCommerce, and DSD department operations to deliver a simplified, smarter, more connected store experience. Customers running Upshop realize significant improvements in sales, shrink, food safety and sustainability across the entire store. 450+ retail chain accounts trust our software in over 55k+ stores, 35 countries, and 3 continents. 

Role Summary 

As a Principal UX Designer at Upshop, you will own the evolution of our Design Platform and Design System while acting as both a senior craft practitioner and mentor to the design organization. In this role, you will have the opportunity to be a platform-minded design leader, partnering with other PMs to shape and operationalize Upshop 360 platform across all product suites. You will shape direction through hands-on contribution and thoughtful influence, helping the team make decisions confidently in ambiguity and complexity.  

You are a player-coach: a strategic thinker who leads by doing, builds with your hands, and elevates others’ work through mentorship and example. You will help define the future of Upshop’s design ecosystem — from foundational components to interaction patterns and scalable UX paradigms — ensuring consistency, coherence, and quality across products.  

This role requires a strong blend of senior UX craft, systems thinking, advanced prototyping, cross-functional influence, and coaching experience. 

What You’ll Do 

Design Platform & System Leadership 

• Own and evolve the Upshop Design Platform and System: components, guidelines, interaction language, motion principles, and shared patterns.  

• Partner with engineering to ensure consistency, scalability, performance, and technical feasibility at platform scale.  

• Define and document standards for how design is expressed across products — from tokens to complex state behaviors.  

• Advocate for accessibility, performance, and inclusive design across the system. 

Hands-On UX & Interaction Craft 

• Create and iterate high-fidelity prototypes, interaction models, and design artifacts that clarify intent and drive alignment. 

• Use prototypes as a primary language for exploration, communication, and decision-making. 

• Translate research insights, user data, and business goals into elegant, scalable solutions.  

Player-Coach Leadership 

• Serve as a mentor and coach: provide regular design critique, career guidance, and hands-on support for more junior designers. 

• Lead and facilitate cross-disciplinary workshops to solve complex UX challenges collaboratively 

• Elevate team craft through shared best practices, tooling improvements, and patterns for reuse. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

• Partner deeply with Product, Engineering, and Brand teams to shape outcomes that balance user needs with business strategy. 

• Influence product direction through strategic reasoning and exceptional design judgment 

• Represent design decisions to senior leadership and stakeholders with clarity and confidence. 

Working in Ambiguity & Evolving Practice 

• Thrive in exploratory environments where problems are undefined and outcomes are emerging. 

• Define and refine processes that help teams navigate ambiguity while maintaining velocity and quality. 

Qualifications 

Experience 

•  7+ years of UX / product design experience with a strong portfolio of work that demonstrates both strategic depth and craft excellence. 

• Experience creating and scaling design systems or shared UX platforms in complex multi-product portfolios across different medium (web, tablet, mobile)  

• Proven track record of mentoring designers and elevating team quality. 

Skills & Expertise 

• Hands-on design fluency: end-to-end interaction design, advanced prototyping (Figma), motion where applicable.  

• Deep systems thinking: ability to decompose and organize design patterns that scale across products and teams. 

• Excellent communication: ability to articulate decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Comfort working with engineering on implementation patterns, constraints, and performance realities. 

• Strong understanding of user-centered design, accessibility, and usability best practices.  

• Experience contributing code to UI component libraries: React, Tailwind, Design Tokens, shadcn, CSS-in-JS; able to meaningfully engage on component structure and implementation quality. 

• Familiarity with analytics data used to inform design decisions 

• Experience in high-growth SaaS or platform organizations 

What Makes You Successful Here 

• You set direction through clarity of thought and strength of craft, not hierarchy. 

• You enjoy making complexity feel simple for others - both in product and in how design works. 

• You are motivated by empowering others, sharing craft expertise, and defining scalable design strategies. 

• You embrace ambiguity and drive forward with both curiosity and discipline. 

Portfolio Requirement 

An online portfolio is required and should highlight: 

• Design system thinking and platform-level impact 

• High-fidelity prototypes and interaction work 

• Examples of coaching, mentoring, or elevating team outcomes 

The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows:

• $120,000 - 170,000 CAD

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.