Mobile UX Designer at Thalmic Labs

Location: Kitchener, ON
Position: Mobile UX Designer
Company: Thalmic Labs

About us

Thalmic is a hardware + software company building exciting technologies that will shape the future of human-computer interaction, backed by a world-class team of investors including Spark Capital and Intel Capital.

We announced our first product, the Myo gesture control armband, in 2013, and pre-sold over 10,000 units in the first 48 hours. Myo is now shipping worldwide, and has gone on to win numerous awards, such as Digital Trends’ “Best of CES 2014” Award for Cool Tech.

Day-to-day, we encourage unconventional thinking, thrive on great communication and debate, and know how to move quickly. We advocate a healthy lifestyle and promote continuous learning and improvement. Most of all, we set high standards and ambitious goals, and we’re passionate about building the best, most impactful products.

About You

Joy for you comes from finding ways to reconcile a mix of user insights, product requirements, and technical capabilities into the most compelling and desirable mobile experiences. You craft interaction models, wireframes, and task flows, and know iOS and android mobile guidelines like the back of your hand. You advocate tirelessly on behalf of the user and never pass up an opportunity to solicit their feedback. You are looking to make an impact and see wearable technology as the industry to do just that.

What You’ll Do

• Transform market and end-user insights into intuitive, engaging, and thoughtful mobile experiences, in the form of wireframes, task flows, mockups, and prototypes.
• Help tackle complex and novel interaction design problems with the goal of defining new UX paradigms and interaction guidelines.
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative user research to drive design decisions iteratively throughout the development lifecycle.
• Contribute to the overall vision and user strategy for Thalmic products, from concept exploration through implementation, working closely with UX, product management, and engineers to ensure designs are successfully brought to life.

What you need

• A strong portfolio demonstrating examples of interaction design for mobile experiences, such as annotated wireframes, storyboards, or prototypes, as well as user research activities. It should show a breadth of experience and illustrate the entire design process from ideation through to the final design and clearly state your individual contribution to the project/product.
• Degree in a relevant field (Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction, etc.)
• 3+ years industry experience designing mobile applications. Experience designing desktop, web, and touch interfaces for consumer products is highly desirable
• Deep knowledge of a mobile best practices and guidelines, including the Apple Human Interface and Android Guidelines
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute usability tests and other user research, showing how results were analyzed and translated into prioritized recommendations
• Proficiency with industry tools, such as Sketch, Invision, Adobe CSS, or equivalent

Bonus points for

• Being comfortable and open to working in other design areas as needed, including visual design and packaging, and on multiple platforms (web, desktop, etc.)
• Ability to create interactive design prototypes in Axure, Flash, AfterEffects, Maya, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, or other tools

Apply via links at Thalmic Labs.