Sr. Product Designer

About Ascendion :

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

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About the Role:

Job Title: Sr. Product Designer.

Job Description:

Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer with an interest in helping us envision new ways to connect businesses with customers as they interact with our surfaces. This role is for someone with strong design abilities, typographic skills, digital expertise, and acute attention to detail. You are a highly motivated, self-directed team player who works well under pressure and can thrive in a deadline-driven and fast-paced environment. You will work within a team of designers as you work together to create experiences that are engaging, relevant, harmonious, and brand-worthy.

Responsibilities:

As a Product Designer on this team, you will:

• Utilize your strong interaction and visual design skills to create amazing products and elevate design.
• Plan and implement strategies that ensure our design work drives customer value and helps us meet our business goals.
• Document final designs in a point-of-reference/specification, adjust design systems and work directly with marketing to produce consumer facing experiences.
• Find areas where we can improve our processes, products, or culture, and lead or influence the changes necessary to do that.

Requirements:

• Portfolio for a review with design lead.
• 10+ years of direct experience designing user interfaces for web, software, and/or hardware products is required.
• Ability to read and synthesize product specifications and generate related design specifications/design briefs. When product specifications are not present or incomplete, can help derive and document these missing specifications.
• Create clean and effective graphic templates, presentations, process flows, information architecture diagrams, documentation, sketches, wireframes, and other artifacts required to develop and evolve user experience designs
• Ability to discuss and present an in-depth knowledge of standard design principles: color, typography, layout, brand.
• Must have the ability to understand technology issues and communicate information effectively.
• Excellent communication and project management skills required.
• Ability to work under constant deadline constraints.
• Strong knowledge of web technologies (i.e. HTML and CSS) is preferred.
• Fluency with standard design software tools (ex. Figma, Adobe CS) required.
• Fluency with basic animation (within Figma) required; skills or experience with more advanced animation (e.g. After Effects) is preferred.

Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

• Minimum 8+ years experience with Product Design
• Minimum 3 years experience with Motion Design (Adobe after affects)
• Minimum 3+ years experience with Figma.

Location: Remote (Canada)

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between CA$ 146,000- CA$ 176,000 Annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

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