Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

Location: Office-based/Hybrid - Toronto, Canada

Focus: Team enablement 

Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company, advancing the world's infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and the environment. Within Bentley, the Design organization shapes meaningful experiences – from brand to in-product interactions – with clarity, coherence, and craft. 

An integral part of this work lies with the Digital Design team, a cross-functional team of creative problem-solvers focused on transforming Bentley’s digital experience. Our goal is to ensure that users experience the same level of quality across all touch points, channels, and digital products—delivering a seamless, high-quality experience. 

Great design at scale only works if the foundations are solid. As Senior Product Designer, UI & Design Systems, you'll be the person who makes that happen across Bentley's digital experience. This is a craft leadership role – sitting at the intersection of UI quality, design system adoption, and team enablement – and it's one of the most important roles in the team. 

You'll work across our buying and post-purchase experience teams as a senior practitioner and coach – raising the bar for UI quality, driving adoption of our design system in day-to-day delivery, and acting as the connective tissue between Digital Design, the central Design Systems team and our Brand team. You won't just know what good looks like – you'll help everyone around you see it too.  

Responsibilities:

• Help shape the design system strategy for digital: Work closely with the central Design Systems and Brand teams to help define how our design system applies across Bentley's diverse digital portfolio — from products closely aligned to our core component library, through to more expressive, long-form digital experiences. Grounded in atomic design principles and built on MUI as our base kit, you'll help establish clear guidance on when to follow the system closely, when to extend it, and when a more editorial approach is appropriate — so the team makes those calls confidently and consistently. 
   

• Own UI quality across the digital experience: Set and champion a high standard for UI craft across Digital Design. Review work, give precise and actionable feedback, and help designers close the gap between good and exceptional — across interaction design, visual hierarchy, component use, motion, and accessibility. 
   

• Drive design system adoption at the delivery level: Be the day-to-day champion for design system usage across the team. Work alongside designers to ensure components are applied correctly, consistently, and thoughtfully — and feed back real friction points to the central Design Systems team so the system evolves based on how it's actually being used. 
   

• Coach and elevate the team's UI capability: Run critiques, share knowledge, and work hands-on with designers to build stronger UI instincts across the team. 
   

• Be the conduit between delivery and the central design system: Build a strong working relationship with the central Design Systems and Brand teams. Represent the needs of the delivery teams in those conversations, advocate for practical system improvements, and bring decisions and updates back to the team in a way that's clear and usable. 
   

• Explore and embed AI-enabled efficiencies in UI practice: Actively explore how AI tools can accelerate UI work — from generating design variations and component scaffolding to documentation and QA. Help the team adopt these tools thoughtfully, without compromising craft, consistency, or brand integrity. 
   

• Contribute as a senior practitioner: Take on complex UI design challenges yourself when needed — particularly where cross-team consistency, new patterns, or high-visibility work requires a senior hand. Lead by example and bring the same rigor to your own work that you ask of others. 
   

• This role is part of a global team, some flexibility in working hours may be required from time to time to support collaboration across time zones. The role requires infrequent travel to Bentley office locations for team meetings, stakeholder collaboration, or company events. This role requires sitting or standing at will while performing work on a computer for extended periods. 

Qualifications:

• 8+ years in Product or UX/UI Design, with a portfolio that demonstrates exceptional UI craft across complex digital products 

• Deep expertise in design systems — not just using them, but understanding how to drive adoption, surface friction, and contribute to their evolution 

• A natural coach and craft leader — you raise the bar around you without creating fear, and you explain the *why* behind every design decision 

• Strong working knowledge of accessibility standards and how to apply them practically in delivery 

• Experience working across multiple teams or portfolios simultaneously — you're comfortable influencing without a direct line of authority 

• Fluency in Figma — including component architecture, auto layout, variables, and prototyping — and confidence with Miro and broader design tooling 

• Genuine curiosity about how AI is changing UI practice — and the judgment to know where it helps and where it doesn't 

• Strong communication skills — you can give direct, precise design feedback and translate complex system decisions into plain language for any audience 

• A practical, collaborative mindset — you understand the realities of delivery and find ways to uphold quality within them, not despite them 

What we offer:

• Step into a collaborative work environment where ideas flourish, and teamwork propels us forward towards shared success; see our colleague video for a taste of our culture and watch this short documentary about how we got our start.  

• An attractive salary and benefits package.  

• Bentley Impact Day: take a day off from work to volunteer with an organization of your choice.  

• Celebrate milestone achievements and moments that matter through our colleague recognition award programs and our Bentley Achievers platform.    

• A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups.  

• Be part of a company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world. Discover our latest user success stories for an insight into our global impact.  

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