Job: UX Designer at Igloo Software

Location: Kitchener, Ontario

Igloo is an intranet you’ll actually like. It’s a web-based solution that enables you to share files, give updates, find answers, exchange ideas and work better together with your colleagues and customers.

We are looking for a senior UX Designer who fights for the user. You are passionate about personas, story boards, wireframes, and occasionally the back of a napkin. You understand that design and performance are not mutually exclusive and you know how to blend the two.

You will take ownership of the style guide and best practices that drive our designs, as well as enhancing them and driving their widespread implementation. You will ensure new features fit into the platform according to the standardized methodology and will tune existing features to be more coherent. You will question designs, prototypes and demos to ensure they live up to a high standard.

You’ll have multiple projects in various stages at any given time and you should be comfortable with switching tasks as priorities change.

You don’t have to know how to code, but you should understand the impact designs have on technical performance.

Key responsibilities:

• Conduct research to understand user needs and competitive landscape
• Collect and document business and functional requirements
• Translate complex ideas into clean user interface concepts
• Create user flows, wireframes, and other pieces of UX documentation
• Work with design and development teams to bring UX concepts to life
• Facilitate user testing and conduct interface analysis
• Provide ideas to “make it better”

Need to have:

• 3-year diploma or 4-year degree in design, computer science, or similar
• 2-4 years experience working in UX for web-based platforms
• Experience in user interface design or design for the web
• Strong creative research, writing, and design skills
• Strong attention to detail

Nice to have:

• Ability to write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with responsive design

How to apply:

Send your cover letter and resume (as one document), as well as portfolio (URL or PDF) to careers@igloosoftware.com.