Job: UX Designer at Kiite (Waterloo)

About the role

In this exciting role you will be directly impacting our customer facing technologies and improving the way companies access meaningful information using Kiite. We are looking for someone who is passionate about translating insights of real people, data and customer research into beautifully designed user-friendly interfaces. If you’re constantly sketching ideas, dreaming in wireframes and always thinking of ways to improve user-design, we want you on the team.

In this role you’ll

• Lead UX Design projects from start to finish, create stunning interface designs and experiences for our end users.
• Listen to our users needs, feedback and obstacles and allow that information to guide the design process in order to create meaningful solutions for real people.
• Collaborate with a small, diverse, multidisciplinary team of engineers, developers and marketers to bring design concepts to life.
• Perform Usability Testing to identify what works and what doesn’t.
• Solve and define complex problems and make user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
• Execute multiple thoughtfully designed concepts and prototypes. Maintain high quality work without sacrificing speed.

In your first 6 months on the team, you will

• Design and help implement a modern, web-based client dashboard & account management application
• Author chat-based user workflows and experiences
• Organize and run user-testing labs and experiments

What we’re looking for

Don’t worry if you don’t have all of the qualifications listed below — we’re particularly interested in someone that learns quickly, so if you only meet some of the criteria below but think you’re up for the challenge, please still reach out — we’d love to talk to you!

• 3+ years experience working in a UX role for business-focused tech in web-based platforms
• Passion for solving core product problems, taking ownership on all facets of a user experience (strategy, interaction design, and research)
• An understanding of interface & user experience design best practices for web and mobility devices
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize real user feedback into designs
• Experience collaborating with multiple disciplines including product, engineering, data analysts and more
• Knowledge of design tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch and Invision
• Experience working in a collaborative, fast-paced and constantly evolving environment
• Previous experience with agile teams, agile methodologies and accessibility compliance

About Kiite

Kiite has built the world’s first Intelligent Sales Coach. The workplace is changing; new employees have more complex needs, want more personalized and frequent interactions, while also demanding more independence and changing jobs more frequently. Companies can’t survive the future of work with yesterday’s management practices. Kiite uses machine learning and natural language processing to give employees more autonomy and make managers dramatically more productive.

Kiite emerged from the founding team of TribeHR and our founding team includes deep roots in the HR technology space including employment and investments in NetSuite, Oracle, Rypple, Dayforce, and Axonify. We’re a team that’s dedicated to building extraordinary workplaces, and we’d like you to join us. We care deeply about inclusion & diversity – we’ve written about it, spoken about it, and live it

Interesting Facts

• Our team is 50% women and 30% immigrants
• We have more data scientists than developers
• Kiite means “listen” in Japanese, which is apt for a company improving management

The Environment & Benefits

• Located in Uptown Waterloo, in the Communitech Data Hub
• Flex hours & unlimited vacation
• 100% Paid, premium medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Equity
• Office is wheelchair accessible

Apply now!