Senior Product Designer

About Blue J

Blue J is the leading generative AI solution for tax professionals. As a B2B SaaS company, our customers are accountants and tax experts who rely on our market-leading software to deliver fast, accurate, and defensible answers to complex tax questions.

With the launch of our flagship generative AI product, we’ve consistently exceeded our revenue targets quarter over quarter and continue to accelerate our growth. Our product roadmap is ambitious, customer-focused, and designed to deliver exceptional value at speed.

On the heels of our $122M USD Series D funding, we’re scaling quickly and building the design foundation to support Blue J’s next stage of growth. We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to help shape the future of our product experience, elevate design excellence, and establish consistent design systems that scale with us.

A Note on Location

This role is remote, with the expectation that you are within commuting distance of Toronto and can join in-office meetings a few times per quarter. All candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

The Opportunity

This is a high-impact opportunity to be the founding design hire and establish the design function at Blue J. You’ll set the standard for product design quality, create our design system, and craft seamless experiences that make complex tax research simple. You’ll work hand-in-hand with Product and Engineering to turn user insights into creative solutions, helping our product stay smooth, delightful, and loved by our customers.

This Role Is a Great Fit If You

• Are excited to take ownership of design 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

• Leading the end-to-end 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

• Significant experience 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

Interview Process

• Chat with Dan, Sr. Talent Acquisition Manager
• Meet with Director of Engineering
• Collaborative design exercise with product and engineering stakeholders
• Final conversation with leadership to align on values and vision
• Meet Ben, our CEO

We believe our strength is built on diversity of thought, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. We value inclusiveness and are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We strive to create an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you need any accommodations during the interview process, please let us know in your application. Our team is dedicated to providing the necessary support and making reasonable adjustments to ensure a smooth process for everyone.