Product Designer, Design Systems

About Clutch

We’re on a mission to reinvent the way people buy, sell, and own cars. Clutch is Canada’s largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car-buying experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee. Named five years in a row to the Globe & Mail’s list of the Top Growing Companies in Canada and also awarded spots on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ lists, we’re looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team.

Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017 and currently services Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, and Prince Edward Island. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors, including D1 Capital, Canaan, Real Ventures, BrandProject, and Upper90. To learn more, visit clutch.ca.

About The Role

We’re seeking a Product Designer, Design Systems to join our product team at a pivotal moment in our company’s growth. In this role, you’ll help design and engineering teams build consistent, high-quality experiences across all products and platforms. You’ll own and evolve our design system across design tools, front-end libraries, infrastructure, and documentation, and contribute to internal tooling that will enable us to ship products and features faster. This position is based on site in our downtown Toronto office.

What You’ll Do

• Build, evolve, and maintain a scalable design system across Clutch’s web and iOS products.
• Work closely with design lead and developers to support design-to-code workflows.
• Collaborate with marketing team to incorporate our brand identity into the design system.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation, usage guidelines, and examples.
• Influence design system roadmap and long-term scalability.
• Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tooling improvements.

What We’re Looking For

• Minimum 5 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining a reusable component library and implementing details in code.
• Excellent understanding of frontend development (HTML, CSS, JS, React).
• Excellent visual design skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across teams and domains.

Why You’ll Love It At Clutch

• Autonomy & ownership – opportunity to build your process and influence the company workforce and at every level.
• Help shape the future of car buying and selling in Canada by leading a critical part of our customer experience.
• You’ll have a broad and direct ownership over Clutch’s Design System during a phase of rapid growth.
• We are dedicated to attracting and retaining top talent with top-of-market compensation packages.
• Above market health & dental benefits.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $130 000-170 000 per annum. Benefits: Comprehensive benefits plans include healthcare, dental care, vision care, prescriptions, life insurance and dependent coverage; start from day 1. (Applicable for Permanent Full-Time). Pay decisions reflect objective criteria: skills, performance, market benchmarking, responsibilities and working conditions.

Clutch is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. If you require accommodation at any stage of the interview process, please email talent@clutch.ca.

Key skills/competency

• Design Systems Development
• Component Library Management
• Front-end Development (HTML, CSS, JS, React)
• Visual Design
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Technical Documentation
• Design-to-Code Workflows
• Roadmap Influence
• Scalability Planning
• User Experience (UX)