Product Designer - Global Design System

The Product Designer will maintain and scale the enterprise-wide design library for Manulife, ensuring consistency and innovation across digital experiences. This role involves partnering with various teams to define visual language and usability guidelines for a seamless user experience.

Responsibilities

• UX/UI Global Design System, Design System Library Maintainer; use a tokens-based approach to build components, patterns, templates in a scalable, enterprise-grade design system.
• Align to the visual language, interaction patterns, and documentation/usage guidelines that ensure a high-quality experience.
• Partner with design leads, other segment-based product designers, and engineering teams to align the requirements for components and patterns for the system.
• Execution and Documentation Design and maintain components, tokens, and patterns in Figma.
• Creates variants, edge cases, responsive specs and accessibility integration (labels, focus, states).
• Partners with developers to ensure pixel-to-code fidelity.
• Authors usage guidelines, examples, do’s & don’ts in documentation.
• Facilitate design reviews, audits, and contribution models, ensuring high-quality system evolution and usage.
• Support community engagement initiatives to drive system adoption across Manulife’s digital teams.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration Serve as a design system advocate and collaborate with regional designers.
• Work with regional design leads to ensure the system meets regional needs while maintaining overall consistency.
• Build and nurture a global design system community, educating teams on best practices and fostering a culture of design system ownership.
• Technical & Operational Execution Expert of design tooling, writing documentation and workflows, ensuring seamless integration enterprise platforms (Figma, Storybook, React, AEM, etc).
• Work closely with engineering leadership to ensure design-to-code consistency, accessibility compliance (WCAG), and performance optimization.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in design tokens, enterprise design systems, designing patterns and templates for CMS like AEM, accessibility, and design operations.
• Successfully worked on enterprise-wide design systems.
• Understanding of organizational, technical, and cultural complexities of embedding a design system into a global enterprise.

Key Skills

• Expertise in design tokens, enterprise design systems, designing patterns and templates for CMS like AEM, accessibility, and design operations.
• Proficiency in Figma, Storybook, React, AEM, etc.
• Strong documentation, organization, and communication skills.

Benefits

• Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans.
• Various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources.
• Generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence.