Senior Product Designer
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Our client, a leader in the education savings space, is looking for a Senior Product Designer to craft their digital brand experiences while working on a product that has a genuinely positive impact on customers' lives by helping them save for their education and future.
This remote, 12-month contract that could lead to full time will find the successful candidate collaborating closely with digital managers, product owners, developers and UX partners to craft branded, relevant and modern experiences through digital experiences.
As Senior Product Designer, you demonstrate solid visual design principles and ideas like composition, hierarchy, typography, and balance, with the ability to apply these principles to design and create a compelling interface. You’ll contribute to design through all phases of the product cycle, including research-based concept design, detailed workflows, information architecture, navigation, structured content, visual systems, content, UX and UI patterns. Relying heavily on qualitative and quantitative data to make informed decisions, the successful candidate will work alongside a researcher to assess direction.
Working within a highly collaborative team, you will execute design processes within an agile delivery method. An expert in web and mobile design, platforms, and technologies, the Senior Product Designer will understand and work within technical constraints, user goals and business requirements that shape current and future products in alignment with the corporate brand guidelines.
The successful candidate has in-depth experience using Figma to build components, mock-ups and sketches as well as the ability to deliver high-fidelity, developer-ready design files and complex prototypes.
Established in 1965 and owned and operated by a not-for-profit organization, our client is in service to students. They are a diverse and passionate community of experts that firmly believes in the benefits of education, priding themselves on helping to shape their future and empowering them to reach their full potential. They are creating an entirely new student experience that is built on instilling confidence in students around the paths they are choosing and their ability and agency to achieve their goals for the future.
JOB REQUIREMENTS & EXPECTATIONS
Work with a user researcher to coordinate testing efforts, deliver design prototypes, interpret test results, and incorporate insights into designs.
Understand and work with technical constraints, user goals and business requirements that shape current and future products.
Ensure that designs are aligned with branding, company-wide systems, components, and patterns.
Contribute to the design of company-wide systems, components, and patterns.
Collaborate with marketing and engineering teams.
Expert knowledge of web and mobile design, platforms, and technologies
In-depth experience working within cross-functional teams and successfully executing design processes within an Agile delivery environment
Host, facilitate and support design thinking activities with internal teams, senior leadership and customers using FIGJAM, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other team collaboration tools.
Act as a trusted advisor and senior specialist to leadership to help inform business decisions
Actively contribute to the planning & implementation of new digital projects, including scoping, design approach, and design deliverables.
Consistently leverage data to drive design direction and support the definition of key customer metrics to inform decision-making.
Act as a team collaborator, support, motivate and work collaboratively with other team members.
Understand and follow accessibility web standards (W3C) / best practices for interaction design and accessibility. Key Skills:
Have deep experience with responsive UI design methodology and processes
Skilled in communicating both verbally and in written format, with experience presenting to senior-level audiences.
Analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to support others in finding creative solutions to customer problems.
Able to balance speed, quality, and consistency of design.
Engage with developers and quality assurance analysts to understand our platform's capabilities, communicate design specifications, and verify implemented designs.
Experience designing & delivering in ambiguity with integrated partners, with experience working in the financial industry as an asset. • Identify new product improvement opportunities and identify gaps in the product experience.
What You Bring:
BA/BS in graphic design, fine art, visual communications, HCI or related field (or equivalent industry training/experience)
6+ years of experience designing and delivering digital products to market
Have strong collaboration, facilitation, and presentation skills
Ability to create complex user interfaces
Have a digital visual design portfolio demonstrating an apparent proficiency in interface design.
Demonstrate solid visual design principles and ideas like composition, hierarchy, typography, and balance, with the ability to apply these principles to design and create a compelling interface.
Have in-depth experience using Figma to build components, mock-ups and sketches.
Have Design system, component-building and prototyping capabilities to maintain design system libraries.
Ability to deliver high-fidelity, developer-ready design files and complex prototypes in Figma
Has worked in an Agile setting and has a proven track record of working closely with Product owners and developers.
Someone who continuously takes initiative and embraces change
If you're interested in this exciting opportunity, please send your resume to ashley@ariagency.ca.