RQ08955 - UI Designer - Senior

Description Responsibilities:

• Create visual design solutions that address business requirements.
• Create screen layouts, interfaces, navigation components.
• Work closely with user experience (UX) designers and other design specialists.
• Ensure that every page and every step a user will experience in their interaction with the finished product will conform to the overall vision created by UX designers.
• Conceive and conduct user research, interviews, and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.

General Skills:

• Experience translating, creating, improving and using wireframes, prototypes, style guides, user flows, and effectively communicate interaction ideas that lead to intuitive user experiences that are optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Experience designing and shaping unique, user-centric products and experiences.
• Experience facilitating the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testing experiences for digital products.
• Make deliberate design decisions and translate any given user-experience journey into a smooth and intuitive interaction.
• Experience designing the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterating upon it in accordance with user-testing.
• Experience collaborating closely with developers, copywriters, and UX designers.
• Experience presenting and defending design decisions to team and management.
• Ability to think creatively and to rationalize concepts to management.
• Knowledge of user interface design principles and best practices.
• Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions.
• Experience making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
• Manage workflow and deadlines on multiple, simultaneous projects.
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience.

Desirable Skills:

• Design experience gained either within a design firm, advertising agency, or in-house marketing department.
• Knowledge of network security and network protocols.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Digital Experience and Product knowledge - 35%

• Strong knowledge of software standards and best practices in delivery of complex, user-centric IT solutions.
• Experience with defect management lifecycle and tools such as Jira and DevOps.
• Knowledge and experience of digital dealer registration processes and systems is an asset.
• Experience with creating wireframes, prototypes, visual design solutions that address business requirements.
• Experience with creating screen layouts, interfaces, and navigation components.

Framework & Testing Experience - 20%

• Hands-on experience with modern UI design frameworks and leveraging of design standards.
• Strong experience with Figma.
• Experience with WCAG 2.0 and ARIA implementation and accessibility best practice.

Design and Architecture - 20%

• Experience in micro service design and implementation of IT solutions from the architectural design.
• Understanding of modern architectural principles for cloud-based solutions.
• Proven experience designing modern architectural patterns to support delivery of complex IT solutions that are reliable, secure, responsive and scalable.

Leadership & Methodologies - 25%

• Experience on a build/run team using agile methods such as understanding of product backlog in sprint planning, conveying vision for team on end-product, experience part of scrum ceremonies, etc.
• Experience collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience with delivering presentations and running design sprints, and bringing your product and technical ideas to the wider team.

Hybrid: 3 Days onsite / 2 days remote

Must Haves:

• Strong experience with Figma.
• Experience with WCAG 2.0 and ARIA implementation and accessibility best practice.
• Prior experience with DDR (Digital Dealer Registration) project.