Job: Senior Interaction Designer – McAfee, Waterloo, ON

Amazing organizations don’t just happen. Vision, strategy and innovation come to life through exquisite execution. Help create the future of McAfee, where our diverse talent and culture provide the competitive advantage to help McAfee win big!  At McAfee, Together is power. 

Sr. Interaction Designer

About the Role

You will be involved of every step of the design process, from gathering insights, brainstorming, prototyping, and experimentation, to launching high quality designs. This role is for someone who can demonstrate the ability to take initiative and work independently to solve complex design problems.

Qualities

We’re looking for someone who is self-motivated, able to prioritize and focus on critical tasks, is independent, and open to input. You’ll need excellent verbal communication abilities to effectively share your design rational. We value those who are constant learners and interested in working in a test & learn environment.

What you’ll do:

• Apply strategic thinking to design and deliver innovative end-to-end user experiences that optimize among user needs, business goals.
• Start with deeply understanding the design problem, then move to visualizing solutions
• Turn complex design problems into simple user experiences
• Deliver User Experience visions, UI specs, wireframes and prototypes
• Collaborate effectively with other designers, content strategists, product managers, and researchers
• Share a strong point of view, backed up by personal expertise, design rationale, customer data, and industry trends
• Participate in and foster the McAfee’s Experience Design Community and mentor junior members of the design team

Preferred qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in design, prototyping, or related field.
• Bachelors degree in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction Design, or other relevant field; Masters preferred
• Deep knowledge of design principles and methods
• Curiosity and commitment to testing new ideas and innovating to drive business results
• Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator
• Mastery of design tools such as Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and Invision
• Strong knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes
• Seasoned in Agile development processes
• Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, etc)
• Proven track record in setting a vision for great customer experiences, inspiring others to get behind the vision, and ultimately delivering products and services that are known for their delightful experience and ease of use
• A passion for creating products that resonate on an emotional level
• A stunning online portfolio

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Job: User Experience Designer, EV at Geotab (FleetCarma)

Who is Geotab (FleetCarma)

Imagine millions of vehicles driving across the globe 24/7. Next, imagine that you collected rich location, engine and vehicle behaviour data on each vehicle through a plug and play device. Our customers have the power to take this data and provide valuable insight toward their businesses because of the Geotab platform. Geotab is one of the leading telematics technology companies in the world and is focused on continuing our rapid expansion worldwide. For more information visit us at www.geotab.com.

FleetCarma has developed the world’s only electric vehicle monitoring and control platform which uses vehicle data and metrics to drive intelligent decisions for fleets and individuals. On any given day FleetCarma’s development garage will be filled with the latest electric vehicles: Model S’s, Volt’s, Leafs and the more than 30 other plug-in vehicles that are supported by our products.

In June 2018, FleetCarma joined forces with Geotab, a global leader in fleet telematics. Together, we’ll be working to bring our innovative electric vehicle platform to their hundreds of thousands of vehicles being tracked across the world.

Who we are looking for

We are always looking for amazing talent who can contribute to our growth and deliver world class results! Geotab is seeking a User Experience Designer who will be able to quickly dive in and bring innovative ideas to the EV product suite. If you love technology, are passionate about great design, and are keen to join an industry leader – we would love to hear from you!

What are the details of this position

As the sole User Experience Designer, EV in our Waterloo office, your key responsibility will focus on creating an easy and appealing experience for users interacting with our software products. In this role you will have involvement from user story to wire frame prototyping and collaborating with in-house Software Development teams. This role will include work on projects both in early conceptual stages as well as more mature products undergoing innovative redesign. Calling the Product Management team home, you will collaborate with Product Managers, the Customer Success team, and our Software teams.

Our Products

The EV Suitability Assessment integrated into the Geotab platform, currently in conception, aims to analyze fleet driving patterns and communicate to Fleet Managers when an EV makes sense over current conventional fleet vehicles.

The SmartCharge Platform, serving both electric utilities and their EV driver customers, communicates the impacts of EV charging on the electric grid, and incentivizes EV drivers to charge at grid-friendly times.

Duties and Tasks/Essential Functions

• Create intuitive, simple and user experiences with our software products.  Be the champion for the value of good design!
• Learn context, user jobs and goals from Product Management research, and alongside Product Management directly teaming on customer research interactions
• Set and improve the process to design and validate the user experience, and improve outcomes our software solutions are working towards
• Bring in and establish new processes to involve more team members in the design process, harness their ideas and achieve a great end result
• Translate user job stories into great solution designs:  easy interactions, simple and visually appealing layout and overall intuitive experience
• Monitor the success of designs and investments in partnership with Product Management with quantitative metrics, and qualitative feedback loops
• Answer questions and work closely alongside Software Developers and QA to ensure a great solution before the Sprint demo
• Make a positive contribution towards our goals of increasing EV adoption, as this industry rapidly evolves

Experience/Skills Required

• Post-secondary education in design, or a related field
• A passion for software UX, visual design, and interactive design
• 5+ years of work experience in software product design, ideally with experience in both B2B and B2C solutions
• Advanced expertise in your wireframing / prototyping tool set
• Experience with data-oriented / analytics applications an asset
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript as asset
• Strong believer in usability testing, and have proven experience in running effective tests, interpretation of results, and incorporating changes based on them
• You are a great communicator and collaborator:  you can communicate your designs effectively, and build solutions collaboratively with inputs from a number of teams
• Conduct user research on an as-needed basis, to learn of opportunities to improve an existing solution’s experience
• Strong aptitude for detail-oriented problem solving

What makes our staff passionate about Geotab?

• A focus on electric vehicles, which are both exciting and an important solution for climate change mitigation.
• Being part of a world-class technology team
• Having a small company feel while being part of a global leader with offices in 7 countries.
• Table Tennis at the office! Bring your own bat!
• Stocked fridge and healthy snacks
• Hot lunch or fresh sandwiches served every Friday
• Full medical benefits & 4% company matching retirement savings plan

Our Core Values

Geotabbers innovate and seek creative ways to continuously improve. Collaboration and teamwork defines the way we work. We love being ahead of the curve, using leading technology, and being agile in every way we do business. We work hard, and we definitely  play hard. From the CEO – to the staff – there is an open-door policy for all of us to freely communicate. Geotabbers are dynamic, and enjoy working in a fast-paced work environment. We own our work and take responsibility in a true entrepreneurial spirit!

Geotab encourages applications from all qualified candidates. Geotab is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities throughout the interview, selection and employment process. If you require accommodation at any stage of the application process or want more information about our accommodation policies and practices, please contact us at (416) 434 4309.

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Job: UX Design Lead – Alert Labs

At Alert Labs, we are passionate about saving natural resources, protecting our customers’ properties from water damage, and improving the operational efficiencies of cities, school boards, restaurants, and insurance companies.

Alert Labs is innovating in the IoT (Internet of Things) space. We build affordable, simple to deploy and reliable sensor networks targeted at protecting our customers’ homes and businesses. We bring the benefits of IoT to customers of all technical levels. By being thoughtful and elegant in our design, our products are friendly and easy for anyone to use.

We believe that innovation comes from every member of the team and that the best designs combine technical skills with creativity to achieve great results. We provide an open environment that will allow your job to grow with you. We are passionate about what we do and are driven to create great solutions. We value results, not hours worked, and offer a flexible schedule that allows you to maintain a healthy work/life balance.

There’s never a dull day at Alert Labs, and with a whole stable of upcoming product releases, that’s never been more true than right now. Over the next year, we plan to finalize an extensive suite of utility monitoring devices and you’ll be a key part of the process in sharing this with our customers.

We are looking for a UX Design Lead to work closely with our customer experience, marketing and sales teams, and to be the bridge to the software development team. We value people who are enthusiastic, engaged, and eager to work in a team committed to delivering industry-leading products and software.

Job Description:

Reporting directly to the CTO and CEO, our UX Design Lead will own the vision of our user interface. We’re a tight-knit and scrappy company, so ownership comes with the responsibility for doing the hands-on work needed to make it happen – this includes research, user stories, wireframes, prototypes, testing, and specifications with a mobile-first responsive design approach – to be clear, we’re looking for leaders who are serious doers as well. We’ve got an amazing team of software developers to back you and they’re all passionate about finding ways to deliver the best possible experiences within a fever-pitch development cycle. We believe in a user-first design approach to build products our customers love by incorporating user-centred design at the outset of every project and feature request.

This is a chance to guide our UI vision, shape our company’s design culture, and be an integral part of the leadership team as our company grows… oh, and get lots and lots of your work out into the real world. This is a very important hire for us and we want to make sure we get the right person for the job. Could it be you?

Day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Working closely with customer support, the sales team, business clients and end users to understand user needs and business objectives. Then hunker down with software to find the optimal way to make the most people the most happy.
• Translating customer and business needs into UI concepts, sketches, user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Running user trials and performing in situ user research.
• Creating UI designs that will work for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Taking a user-centered design approach and rapidly testing and iterating your designs.
• Following and/or refining visual design style guides.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Five or more years of UX design experience with a degree/certificate in design or relative field. Preference will be given to candidates who combine hands-on proficiency with technical leadership experience.
• Ability to work with customers and business clients to understand detailed requirements, design user experiences that meet their needs, and evaluate your designs through user testing.
• Extensive experience using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a strong understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• A solid grasp of user-centered design, planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, usability and accessibility concerns.
• Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to use high and low fidelity sketches and mockups to communicate ideas quickly and effectively throughout the entire design process.
• Expertise in standard UX software such as Balsamiq, Sketch, Zeplin, or Adobe CS. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.
• Candidates MUST submit a portfolio of work with their application

Bonus Points:

• Visual design chops to make your designs look awesome and carry them through to the point where they can be implemented by the software team using existing style guides.
• We all wear many hats. If you’re really good at something we didn’t capture here, tell us about it and we’ll make sure you find a way to shine.

How to apply:

Email us at jointheteam@alertlabs.com with your resume and portfolio.

Job: Product Designer – Encircle

“Design thinking is nothing without design doing.” – Suzanne Pellican

Are you a design doer who’s also a design thinker? Then we’re looking for you!

We are a nascent product design team in a successful and growing startup. How nascent is our design team? We’re less than 3 months old – which means you’ll have an immediate impact.

We’re not looking for unicorns. We don’t want you to code – unless that’s how you communicate naturally. We don’t want you to spread yourself thin across too many areas of specialization. We are looking for engaged user experience professionals looking to design compelling experiences.

If this resonates with you, we want to talk to you. If this sounds too good to be true, it isn’t – the catch is that we expect you to have your best day at work ever – every day.

What We’re Looking For…

We apologize if the following words sound familiar, they’re Pete’s 3 Ps for hiring engaged user experience professionals:

• Passion – We want to see your passion for users, design and working collaboratively with an agile and cross-functional team.
• Portfolio – You don’t need to have launched products that have changed the world. But, you will need to show us your designs and have a conversation about the business and user problems you were solving for.
• Perspective – We want to hear what you have to say. We are looking for designers who have, and can form, opinions about their work. You’ll need to be able to talk about your ideas, concepts, research findings, and designs in front of others – including senior leadership.

As a Product Designer, You’ll…

• Report to and work closely with the VP of UX
• Have a human-centred design mindset and are looking to grow as a designer through user and customer feedback
• Always be focusing on the details, sketching concepts, tweaking user flows, or polishing the designs
• Work closely with Product Managers to turn insights and concepts into practical user experiences
• Work closely with the product development team throughout the production process
• Work with the design team to help grow the product design practice and the Encircle design system

To Be An Effective Team Member, You’ll Have…

• 2+ years experience as a Product Designer, preferably with enterprise UX
• Experience creating wireframes, prototypes, and high fidelity designs
• An understanding of product development lifecycle for iOS, Android, and web apps
• Experience in user testing, user interviews, and feedback sessions
• Effective written and verbal communication skills

Ready to Apply?

• Apply on the Encircle Career Site

• Resume & Cover Letter: Submit your resume and cover letter describing your unique fit for this role. If this feels old school, as a UX designer you should feel free to rethink the hiring team’s experience. Your goal for this challenge should be to unlock an interview.
• Portfolio: Include a portfolio of design work that showcases your UX and design skill sets (website(s), pdf, Keynote/Powerpoint/Slideshare, etc.)
• Professional Online Presence: Include links to your online design persona (Medium, Instagram, Twitter, Behance/Dribbble, etc.) 

We’re Encircle, Nice to Meet You!

We’re leading the $2 trillion property and casualty insurance industry out of the dark ages of pen and paper processes with solutions our customers actually love. Our easy-to-use software platform enables thousands of restoration contractors and insurance professionals around the world to process claims faster. We’re located in the heart of downtown Kitchener and our 40+ person startup has huge goals as we scale!

Our Perks, Benefits & Smiles

We offer free snacks and drinks, catered lunches, competitive pay, health benefits, and one of the friendliest work environments around.

You Will Hear Back From Us

We place a high importance on candidate experience. We’ll contact every single candidate that reaches out.

Need an Accommodation?

Encircle is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should notify the talent team during the recruiting process.

Apply on the Encircle Career Site

Job: Product Designer – Intellijoint

Job Overview:

Intellijoint is seeking a creative and resourceful Product Designer to help round out our R&D team. Intellijoint Surgical creates smart, simple, and easy-to-use medical devices for orthopedic procedures. We’ve made a fantastic product with Intellijoint HIP that surgeons love to use and greatly improves their experience in the operating theatre. Our design chops and surgeon-centric decisions have gotten us this far but now we need your help. We’re looking for someone to help take our user interface and user experiences to the next level.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product / R&D team to build product, but often collaborating with Marketing and Sales
• Evaluate both current and under-development products and features and identify areas where notable usability gains may be achieved
• Contribute to all phases of a feature or product development, from ideation and feasibility, user needs and requirements, detailed design and implementation, through to testing and release.
• Help formulate requirements, produce user stories, flowcharts, wireframes, and create functional prototypes in early phases of feature or product development
• Solidify concepts, deliver final image assets, source sounds, and help with front end development and implementation to seal the deal on a polished product
• Test and validate the usability of design outputs before releasing to the field
• Absorb feedback from users and sales team to understand the use in the field and where things could be better
• Overlap with Marketing team to ensure consistent aesthetic throughout product and marketing materials

Required Skills and Experience:

• Ability to provide a portfolio or samples of work that have made an impact on users
• 3+ years’ experience preferred; open to new grads with strong portfolios and extracurriculars
• Graphic design ability in: Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.
• Know sounds and colour palettes like the back of your hand
• Experience with HTML and CSS beneficial
• Experienced in mobile app development, specifically iOS beneficial (e.g. creating slick iPhone apps, with a strong emphasis on aesthetic and usability)

Soft Skills and Key Characteristics:

• Keen eye for great design and pleasant user experiences
• Able to explain which designs won’t work and why
• No task too big or too small approach
• Nimble with a strong sense of urgency to support our business needs
• Able to work independently, organize, plan and prioritize competing needs and issues
• Start-up mentality and strong team player
• Strong communicator (both written and verbal) to various audiences

What does success look like in this role?

• Intellijoint HIP products are even more beautiful, have consistent design throughout, and provide an even greater experience for the surgeon to use
• New Intellijoint products are built from a fresh slate with users in mind to improve even further on Intellijoint’s strong fundamentals with a matching design aesthetic throughout product suite.
• You contribute to one of the key IJS Values of thoughtfulness and always think about the needs of surgeons, while considering the impact on patients, for any product decisions

Job Details:

Full time, based at Intellijoint Surgical’s main office in Waterloo, ON.

How to Apply:

Please submit cover letter and resume for consideration, along with any samples of work or your portfolio. Only selected applicants will be contacted for an interview. Thank you!

Sargun Narula
Human Resources Coordinator 
s.narula@intellijointsurgical.com 

Job: UX Writer at Google (Contract Position)

We are looking for a UX writer to join our team for a 1-year contract position based in Waterloo, ON.

UX writers are the voice of Google. They craft intuitive, inspiring text in graphical user interfaces on the web, on mobile, in cars — everywhere people engage with Google. UX writers collaborate closely with product managers, designers, researchers, and others to imagine, design, test, and deliver products that are relied on by hundreds of millions of people around the globe.

General Responsibilities

• Write clear, concise user-interface text for web-based and mobile products
• Own user-facing error messaging & help documentation
• Collaborate with designers, researchers, prototypers, product managers, and engineers to define user content requirements
• Add order to the broader product mission by creating and curating writing guidelines for both the core product and integration points, and then training others as needed.
• Help improve writing tools and processes, participate in team projects, and generally lend a hand as needed to produce world-class software and hardware products

Minimum qualifications

• 2 years of professional writing or editing experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Meticulous grammar and proofreading skills
• Ability to juggle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
• Detail-oriented with strong project management skills, and a desire to move quickly and innovate on the way we communicate with our users
• Experience working with design, engineering and product management teams as part of the software development process

Nice to Have

• Preference will be given to candidates with technical writing experience

How to Apply

Please submit this short form as your application to the role. Note that you’ll need to be signed in to your Google account to complete it since it includes a file upload section for your resume and writing samples.

Applications due by Sept. 10th, 2018

Job: Sr. UX Designer, Sr. Lead for new labs in London Ontario

One of our clients, a reputable leader in their industry, is expanding rapidly and seeking talented Sr. UX Designers and Sr. Leads.  They are in the midst of developing new labs in London Ontario and are calling out to those who want to make an impact, help provide input and create a strong foundation.  There is a tremendous opportunity for advancement and a chance to work in an environment where your voice is heard!

The roles have a very diverse focus including visual, UX design, design strategy as well as user research.  Their vision and product design focus is very intriguing and has been very appealing to the talent that our firm has successfully placed thus far.

The company is offering:

• very competitive & generous base salary
• performance-based bonus
• comprehensive benefits program
• profit sharing
• pension contribution
• very supportive relocation assistance

If you would be interested in learning more about our client or the position details, please do not hesitate to reach out!

Not interested but know of someone amazing?!?!  We have a fantastic referral bonus program that can put $500 in your pocket!  All you have to do is send along our details (or share their details with us) – and if the talent is hired by our client the money is yours!

Julie Klin (Connect on LinkedIn)
Direct Hire Consultant
Vitamin T | A Q U E N T
P: 647.495.7921
A: 77 Bloor Street W. Suite 1405, Toronto ON, M5S 1M2

Job: UX Designer / Analyst, Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University is poised to meet its future with vision, energy, and optimism. Excellence in education and research supports an academic community addressing critical business, economic, social, and environmental challenges. With over 19,000 students and 2,100 faculty and staff across locations in Waterloo, Brantford, Kitchener, and Toronto, Laurier is a mid-sized university with small-school strengths: experiential programming, engaged alumni, high levels of student satisfaction, and a unique culture inspiring lives of leadership and purpose.

Reporting to the Manager, User Experience, Web Services, is seeking an experienced UX Designer and Analyst with a passion for usability and a strong background in data analytics and reporting. The successful candidate will lead all stages of user experience design, from planning to measurement, translating requirements into meaningful online experiences that work within the context of organizational priorities. The incumbent will have responsibilities for the configuration and deployment of Google Analytics; providing statistical analysis of data and information surrounding website metrics and performance, the role will present research findings as prioritized, actionable recommendations to stakeholders across the university.

The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor’s degree in User Experience, Interaction Design or a related discipline, with a minimum of five years recent related experience. An advocate for UX Strategy, best practices, principles and methodology; the incumbent will possess advanced skills in Google Analytics with working knowledge of Google Tag manager. The incumbent has a proven ability to recruit, design, run, and analyze qualitative and quantitative research experiments including use of workshops, surveys, and focus groups, to measure and inform web structure and performance with a strong knowledge of web accessibility and its implications for user experience design.

Diversity and creating a culture of inclusion is a key pillar of Wilfrid Laurier University’s Strategic Academic Plan and is one of Laurier’s core values. Laurier is committed to increasing the diversity of faculty and staff and welcomes applications from candidates who identify as Indigenous, racialized, having disabilities, and from persons of any sexual identities and gender identities. Indigenous candidates who would like to learn more about equity and inclusive programming at Laurier are welcomed to contact the Office of Indigenous Initiatives at jbecker@wlu.ca. Candidates from other equity-seeking groups who would like to learn more about equity and inclusive programming at Laurier are welcomed to contact the Diversity and Equity Office at diversity@wlu.ca. We have strived to make our application process accessible however if you require any assistance applying for a position or would like this job posting in an alternative format, please contact Human Resources at 519-884-1970 ext.2007 or hr@wlu.ca.

Should you be interested in learning more about this opportunity please visit www.wlu.ca/careers for additional information and the online application system. All applications must be submitted online by July 27, 2018.

Job: Lead/Senior Product Designer at ConseSys

ConsenSys is a venture production studio and the leading technology firm in blockchain globally. We deliver products, solutions and platforms built using blockchain technology to transform how business is done in complex network of buyers, suppliers and consumers.

Our teams are busy at work building the future of identity, financial markets, commerce, the music industry, security, and infrastructure, and more. To accomplish this we’ve built out a flat organizational structure which we call the ConsenSys Mesh: a network of individuals & teams working autonomously and towards the same goal.  Our mission is to use these decentralized solutions to fundamentally reshape the economic, social, and political operating systems of the planet. If you are someone that thrives in a fast-paced environment where being self-directed, determined, and resilient are a requirement, we would love for you to join us.

About Product Design at ConsenSys:

The excitement surrounding the possibilities of blockchain technology are at an all time high—and rightly so. Designers at ConsenSys must balance passion for the technology while knowing when and how to focus the conversation on our users. ConsenSys designers enjoy an open and inclusive culture and the freedom to explore and experiment. We are always iterating and improving our work, the culture, and ourselves.

About the role:

We are currently seeking a Lead Product Designer with a passion for organizational behaviour and development in the Ethereum ecosystem. You have an interest and/or SaaS based experience in human resources, autonomous management, and open platforms—you are passionate about the needs of users in relation to these areas. As a Product Design Lead at ConsenSys, you will take products from ideation and rough prototypes to high fidelity designs, relentlessly validating and pushing for accessible, delightful design solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a collaborative design process from conception to launch: partner with small, global teams of engineers, product managers, and researchers to identify user needs, define product strategy, and create roadmaps
• Develop storyboards, prototypes, and high-fidelity visual design to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Actively give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise the bar for quality
• Mentor junior designers or interns, growing and iterating on our design culture by  participating in design-team-wide initiatives such as recruiting, developing design principles, and improving design tools and process
• Evangelize design and product thinking methodology
• Fearlessly take on highly complex problem areas and then publish what you learn
• Grow a design team as the product matures

Requirements:

• You have 5+ years of experience working as a product designer on agile teams
• You have solved complex problems with elegant, shipped product—evidenced in an online portfolio featuring end-to-end product design
• You demonstrate product vision and use data and experimentation to provide product direction.
• While you may not have a branding or marketing background, you understand customer experience and the relationship between brand and product design
• You’re excellent at articulating design decisions, presenting to clients or stakeholders
• You’re effective at prototyping at varying levels of fidelity
• You demonstrate solid leadership skills and an ability to develop strong partnerships with product managers and engineers

Even better if:

• You’re interested in or have experience with decentralized applications and blockchain
• You’re interested in or have experience working with self-managing organizations and modular platforms
• You have experience at both large organizations and start-ups
• You are able to facilitate design thinking workshops
• You enjoy some amount of ambiguity and freedom to experiment
• You’ve built or worked with design systems
• You have front-end development experience

Here are some of the perks of being part of a unique organization like ConsenSys:

• The forefront of a revolution. At ConsenSys we fundamentally believe that a next generation of technologies presents the opportunity to create a more just and equitable society.
• A dynamic startup environment. ConsenSys is a thought leader in the blockchain space and we are absorbing a significant portion of the mindshare. This is both exciting and challenging, as we learn to scale our organization while adhering to the principles of decentralization.
• Continuous learning. You’ll be constantly exposed to new languages, frameworks and ideas from your peers and as you work on different projects — challenging you to stay at the top of your game.
• Deep technical challenges. This entire ecosystem is about 10 years old. Ethereum itself is still a toddler. There is much work to be done before these platforms can scale to the order of millions or billions of users. ConsenSys is building the technology platforms that can get us to those next thresholds of scale.

Click here for the latest updates from ConsenSys.

Apply!

Apply through the ConsenSys website.

Job: Product Designer at Mappedin

Who we are and what we do

Founded in 2011, Mappedin powers search and discovery indoors, enabling consumers to find what they’re looking for with speed and ease. Our software platform provides industry leading tools to manage dynamic indoor spatial data and offer wayfinding experiences for customer-facing applications, including a recent collaboration with Apple Maps.

Mappedin works with the ten largest malls in Canada, the largest REITs in the US, and in stores, hospitals, campuses, and airports around the world.

At Mappedin, we have a strong culture of design. We firmly believe that design plays an integral role in creating the best possible product that is used by millions of people. Even more than that, we believe that our ongoing dedication to great design is part of how we differentiate ourselves in the market. Only by having high end design can we charge high end prices.

Who you are and what you’ll do

You are a designer who can understand the intrinsic motivation of a user while recognizing the difference between #FF5800 and #FFA500. You love the psychology of how people interact with technology and thrive on how to create a great experience.

You are aware and excited about new design concepts and love to learn. We expect you to be passionate about design that is motivated by research and data. You don’t have to know how to code, but you’ll need to be able to interact intelligently with developers who will be bringing your designs to life.

As part of the Product Strategy team and reporting to the VP, Product Strategy, you will own the look and feel of a suite of products spanning responsive web, directories, and mobile applications:

• Create and test design prototypes
• Communicate designs using mockups, wireframes and written descriptions
• Validate product designs through user research activities
• Run user story mapping sessions and develop user journey maps
• Build white label consumer experiences, taking into account customer branding into final design
• Contribute to fundamental user research including user personas and ethnographic research
• Learn and relate to Mappedin’s customers as well as your colleagues in product management
• Collaborate with your peers in software development to help guide them towards building the most usable version of our products

You are highly interested in learning about or already have experience in:

• Bringing SaaS products to market, spanning some or all of the spectrum of research, ideation, prototyping, aesthetic design, product validation, and iterative improvements post-launch
• Talking to customers in a design capacity where you worked to understand business pains, find new opportunities, and build insight with end users
• Data informed design
• Working harmoniously with other business units (Development, Operations, Sales, Marketing, etc.) to identify problems worth solving and prioritizing solutions
• Designing for interfaces based on user-generated content

What are some challenges?

Our design process is still immature and requires more robustness. You’ll need to figure out how to operate with ambiguity and contribute to improving how our team and process works. We’ll need your help ensuring consistency of design across products, building out libraries of components that can be reused, and creating processes and resources that help improve the efficiency of the design team.

Designing for mobile is hard. At Mappedin, we design recommended experiences for customers who will take our product and customize it to their needs; you may end up collaborating with third party design agencies as a result.

We have tried a few things that we know doesn’t work and have a good idea of where to go, but our assumptions still need to be validated. Change is hard so you’ll need to be prepared to persevere through the hard times in order to work towards a better future.

Behind the scenes

Our tool set currently includes Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, and JIRA, but we are firm supporters in supplying whatever tools are necessary for you to produce your best work. Our final products are built using Swift/Java or HTML/CSS/JavaScript, so some familiarity with their strengths and weaknesses is an asset, but not necessary.

There’s a lot of trust here at Mappedin. We work flexible hours, have a flexible vacation policy and work to provide the hardware or office equipment you require to unleash your potential. We will do what it takes to get things done if we said we would do it. We stay curious and will always ask each other questions, rarely making assumptions. We recognize that we are all different and will challenge each other’s views and perceptions from time to time, resulting in constructive and healthy debates, but that never stops us from all eating lunch together every day. If you want to join our sports team, we have a blank bright orange jersey here waiting for your name to be printed on it.

Lastly, we have an awesome office cat who loves attention. Allergic? Don’t worry, Hobbes stays on the other side of the office and won’t bother you unless you decide to work in the collaboration area there.

Apply!

Apply via the MappedIn website.