Product Designer

Overview

Product Designer Apex Systems is a global IT services provider, and our staffing practice has an opening for a Product Designer to place at our client, a multinational technology corporation.

Job#: 3017955

Client: Multinational technology corporation

Terms: 12-month contract (strong possibility to extend to an 18-month total contract length)

Location: 100% Remote (Priority to Vancouver-based candidates first. Must be willing and able to work in PST)

It is best to apply via the medium on which you are seeing this posting. If you encounter technical difficulties submitting your resume, please send a Word version of your resume to Ty Kurucz at [email protected]. Please reference Request  – Product Designer 3.

Our client is hiring a Product Designer, with a core focus centered on user experience and core building blocks, that could span multiple form factors, devices, and ecosystems. You will help to contribute to the execution of their Human Interface Guidelines (its documentation, maintenance, and scaling for a large base of existing and potential users), and the design of framework components of the search results page, all while driving design coherence of the product.

You’ll be joining a set of designers with whom you can partner, learn from, and contribute with. You will be an integral part of the engineering team and will have the opportunity to partner closely with Program Managers and the Developers that are directly involved in creating and evolving user experiences.

An ideal candidate would have experience with simplifying complex user scenarios, and good knowledge in UI Patterns, Frameworks and scaling Design Systems. You are forward-thinking, passionate about improving our users experience, on top of current UX trends, and excited about exploring new possibilities and opportunities. You can quickly bring new ideas to life from low fidelity sketching to clickable prototypes. You can take big picture ideas and help translate them to ownable concepts with your design and storytelling skills.

Most importantly, you love pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, crafting experiences that fulfill direct user need while also adding a sense of delight.

• Create high-quality wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes in a timely and iterative environment.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams throughout all stages of the design process to deliver useful and efficient end-to-end user experiences.
• Scope and prioritize work across multiple projects and tasks.
• Perform usability tests, working with end users and stakeholders to ensure problems and needs are understood.
• Present work to teams.

• 5-7 overall years of experience in the field.
• Collaboration:
  
  The candidate should be collaborative and able to work effectively with other team members, including engineers and designers.
• Detail-oriented:
  The candidate must pay attention to detail, ensuring that all aspects of the design system are meticulously documented and implemented.
• Communication:
  The candidate should have strong communication skills to document guidelines clearly and provide patterns to partner design teams.
• Patience and Openness to Feedback:
  The candidate should be patient and open to receiving and incorporating feedback.
• Curiosity and Proactiveness:
  The candidate should be curious and proactive in finding areas of inconsistency or inefficiency and suggesting solutions.
• Demonstrated knowledge in all things UX, including accessibility and systems.
• Great eye for visual design and layout. Understanding of multiple modality design patterns and various form factors.
• Excellent understanding of UX methodologies and implementation of design patterns.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills and an attention to detail.
• Ability to quickly learn modern design tools such as Figma.
• Systems Thinking:
  Thinks in terms of reusability and modularity, not just one-off screens or components. Anticipates edge cases and how changes in one component affect the broader system.
• Advocacy & Enablement:
  Can evangelize and educate others about the design…