Job: UX Designer at Cognitive Systems

Founded in 2014, Cognitive Systems Corp. began with the goal of changing the way wireless is used. The founders drew on their extensive expertise in silicon design, RF, and encryption to build a cognitive radio platform. Together, they built a vertically-integrated platform and product line-up that enables wireless signals to be used in new ways.

Now Cognitive Systems is looking for a UX Designer (Web & Mobile Applications) for their Waterloo office.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces for customers and/or internal engineering teams
• Translate concepts into wireframes and mockups that lead to intuitive user experiences
• Identify design problems in current applications and devise elegant solutions
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features based on research and analysis
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs
• Create assets for the developers
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Take smart risks and champion new ideas

Requirements

• Three or more years of UX design experience
• Expertise in UX software such as InVision, UXPin, Sketch. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• A solid grasp of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns.
• Ability to iterate your designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design.
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
• Be willing to help teammates, share knowledge and experience with them, and learn from them
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
• Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies

Send your resume at careers@cognitivesystems.com and be sure to include short cover letter/email on why they should hire you.