User Experience Designer

What will you do?

• Understand business challenges and identify unmet customer needs

• Conceptualize and design best possible engaging end-to-end product experiences

• Create digital experiences that are thoughtful, compelling and meet marketing strategies and business goals

• Participate in observational studies, usability testing and other user research. When required, you will plan, conduct and primary and secondary design research data to inform the design direction.

• Collaborate with lead designers and contribute to creating interaction solutions that advocate for the user

• Design and create reusable components in Figma.

• Provide detailed specifications to developers.

• Have a wide understanding of technical constraints and include it into your solutions but also know when to push boundaries.

• Connect and work alongside with other team members from technical teams, product owner and marketing to deliver an experience that exceeds the user's needs and expectations

• Comfortably develop custom illustrations (2D and 3D) and animations that reinforce emotional connection with working knowledge of motion constrains (e.g. After Effects workflows/Lotti file convert restrictions)

• Experience in editorial design (eg annual report) is a plus

• Willingness to experiment with new platforms and software a quick learner who adapts easily and isn’t afraid to step into new environments.

• Deliver high-quality assets at speed while balancing multiple priorities across digital products and initiatives.

• Able to pick up the established design patterns quickly, and create new effective ones from initial design, overseeing development to delivery stages

• Advocate for accessibility support in all proposed design solutions

• Strong understanding of brand guidelines

• Collaborative in contributing to internal discussions, brainstorms and ideation sessions

• Actively contribute to the Design system library

• Consistently exercise discretion in managing correspondence, information and all matters of confidentiality; raise issues where appropriate

• Understands the industry, competition and the factors that differentiate the organization

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have:

• A degree in design or a design-related discipline – user-centred design, visual design, graphic design, product design, etc. (or equivalent work experience)

• 5+ years of experience designing interactive experiences (or equivalent work experience)

• Comprehensive understanding of interaction and UI design

• Passion for creating simple and stunning visual design solutions

• Ability to translate conceptual ideas into compelling customer experiences

• Meticulous attention to detail

• Good fundamental understanding in Responsive Web design and Mobile Application design (Android and iOS)

• Ability to ask good questions and communicate effectively both verbally and in writing

• Ability to communicate ideas to a diverse audience and constructively integrate feedback

• A conceptual thinker with proven problem-solving skills

• Ability to see the "big picture" and hone-in on the details

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate well in a team environment

• Proficiency with design tools with Adobe's Creative Suite

• Strong portfolio that showcases your understanding of user-centred design

• Fundamental understanding of design principles and branding

• Proficiency with Adobe's Creative Suite (including After Effect to create animation, Adobe Illustrator to develop custom illustration (2D and 3D) and In Design for page layout) as well as industry leading interface design tool such as Figma

Nice to have:

• Experience working in the Financial industry is an asset

• General understanding in Agile Methodologies or experience working in an agile process

• Skillsets to create high fidelity prototypes, user flow diagrams, and storyboards

• General understanding of HTML/CSS (able to produce web-ready assets and designs)

UX design practice here at Client.

Product designer – ux designer, visual designer components