UX​/UI Designer

We are looking for a UX/UI Designer to control the design of the full range of user experiences and contribute to the foundational strategies and processes of UX/UI, directly leading to increased user satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Create user-centred designs by understanding business requirements, being an advocate for the customer, and using your expertise together to ensure a maximum breadth of usefulness.
• Conducting great user research so we deliver the real needs of our users with engaging personas.
• Developing user flows and wireframes and contextual inquiries.
• Prototyping and user testing including running UX workshops, performing usability tests.
• User interface (UI) design of all visual touchpoints
• Work closely with business partners, engineering developers, and data architects to understand business and functional requirements, as well as technical considerations.
• Manage and own the creation of consistent experiences across products and platforms through user-centred design processes.
• Participate in the ideation and experience design of complex applications for web and mobile.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure the design quality is maintained down the stream.
• Educate and articulate the thinking & strategy behind your work and design decisions.
• Conduct and coordinate design walkthroughs, feedback sessions and usability testing to validate proposed design solutions with stakeholders and end-users.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in UX, specializing in digital product development.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating a diversity of relevant work that encompasses UX expertise, interaction design, creativity and critical thinking.
• Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch, Invision, Balsamiq
• Great communicator of complex ideas clearly and thrive in a fast Agile environment.
• Collaborative and robust ability to build positive relationships with cross-departmental teams and influence decision-making and educate all stakeholders.
• Rapid wire framing and prototyping skills, and the competency to interpret data and user feedback to churn out iterative improvements.

This is a permanent position located in downtown Toronto, ON (work from home until deemed safe).