Product Design Technologist Sr

Skip to Content Sign In Product Design Technologist Sr Req #23573 Canada Apply Share Job Description Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM | Expires Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 8:59 PM Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region. Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce. Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally. Effective November 1, 2025 this position is not open to residents of Quebec; applicants must reside in a province or territory of Canada other than Quebec to be considered. Any roles available in Quebec will be posted separately. About the opportunity Dayforce is seeking a Senior Design Technologist to bridge Product Design and Engineering through rapid prototyping, scalable UI architecture, and AI-powered experience development. This role focuses on transforming early concepts into production-ready solutions. You will build high-fidelity prototypes, define interaction patterns, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure AI-driven features are usable, reliable, and aligned with enterprise-grade security and compliance expectations. The ideal candidate brings strong front-end engineering skills, deep interaction design sensibility, and hands-on experience prototyping modern AI-powered workflows. What you'll get to do Prototyping & Product Development Build rapid prototypes ranging from interactive design explorations to coded, production-quality UI implementations. Translate ambiguous product concepts into concrete interaction models, workflows, and UI patterns. Partner with Engineering to align prototypes with scalable architecture, APIs, performance standards, and accessibility requirements. Accelerate decision-making through iterative testing and refinement. AI-Powered Experience Design Prototype AI-driven workflows such as assistants, guided task completion, conversational interactions, and agent-based automation. Design human-in-the-loop patterns that maintain transparency, user control, and review before execution. Implement structured outputs, tool/function calling, and workflow orchestration within prototypes. Apply grounding and retrieval strategies to ensure generated outputs are accurate and contextual. Contribute to evaluation frameworks that measure usefulness, correctness, safety, and latency. Design Systems & Front-End Architecture Contribute to and extend Dayforce’s design system, including components, tokens, patterns, and documentation. Build reference implementations and living prototypes that support reuse across product teams. Strengthen design-to-development workflows, ensuring alignment between Figma assets and production components. Advocate for accessibility (WCAG compliance), responsive design, and performance best practices. Responsible AI & Governance Incorporate responsible AI principles into product interactions, including transparency, security, and privacy safeguards. Collaborate with Legal, Security, Privacy, and AI teams to ensure AI features meet enterprise compliance standards. Ensure AI-powered workflows appropriately reflect permissions and sensitive people data constraints. Leadership & Mentorship Mentor designers and engineers on prototyping techniques and AI UX patterns. Share best practices for AI-assisted development and modern front-end tooling. Influence product and engineering decisions through technical credibility and execution excellence. Skills and experience we value 6+ years of experience in Design Technologist, UX Engineer, Front-End Prototyper, or similar hybrid design/engineering roles. Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped prod ... (truncated, view full listing at source)