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.

Job: Senior User Experience Designer (Cloud Intelligent Assistance) at NetSuite

Netsuite is looking for a Senior User Experience Designer – NetSuite Cloud Intelligent Assistance.

Are you ready to take on the next biggest challenge in your career?  Do you thrive in an entrepreneurial environment that delivers industry leading cloud applications? Oracle NetSuite is building a next-generation, ERP cloud suite that is powering some of the world’s highest growth medium sized companies. If you’re looking to share your unique perspective and ideas at a collaborative table and help equip all kinds of businesses achieve their visions, check us out.

Position Summary

We’re looking for a new member of our global Experience Design Team to work out of Kitchener-Waterloo office. Our team lives to bring delight to our enterprise software products, and you will too!

As a Senior User Experience Designer, you are a creative problem solver with a passion for providing innovative & engaging designs that are easy to use. Specifically, you have a nibble, imaginative mind that looks to design for the future: NetSuite’s Intelligent Assistance projects will make the most involved, esoteric and complicated workflows as easy as pie.

You’ll work with a cross-functional group of designers, developers & product managers on Intelligent Assistance functionality, as your home team, using a combination of best practice and innovation, you’ll help our team create a strong, best-in-class experience. You’ll also partner with other UX Designers and their cross-functional teams on projects that would benefit through the incorporation of adaptive and contextual Intelligent User Interface functionality. Whoa, that’s exciting. THE FUTURE IS NOW.

You understand users. You design to solve problems. You see elegance and power in simple interactions. You can gather requirements, make decisions, present ideas, and work collaboratively to come up with viable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on creative problem solving in a cloud-driven enterprise software system.
• Work with a multi-disciplined team of designers, user researchers and product managers in a fast-paced, dynamic, agile environment, balancing business value, technology, user needs, and operational costs.
• Turn actionable user research & high level product requirements into high-quality design deliverables that communicate design solutions and facilitate discussion, including user flows & wireframes.
• Facilitate design sessions, and use iterative UX techniques to synthesize findings and feedback into an informed experience design.
• Make informed decisions: present design alternatives and effectively communicate rationale and trade-offs, and react quickly and confidently to any changes in project plans.
• Demonstrate a passion for iteration and eagerness to receive feedback, thoughtfully incorporating user, UX team member, developer & product manager responses into design revisions.
• Prioritize multiple projects of varying timelines, degrees of complexity and scope.

Qualifications

• Degree in Product Design, Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 5 years working in the field of UX Design. Experience with “big data software” a huge plus.
• Experience and interest in machine learning, artificial intelligence and business intelligence a huge asset.
• Online portfolio demonstrating your problem-solving ability: problem analysis, personas, scenarios, user journeys, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, task-flows or other relevant design artifacts.
• Analytical and strategic mindset. We privilege how you think over pixel-perfect visual design skills.
• Flexibility to work with geographically distributed teams
• Leadership abilities with exceptional interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile Development methodology is a plus.
• Experience in User Research and Usability Testing is an asset.
• Front end web design experience (HTML, CSS) is an asset.

As part of Oracle’s employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.

To apply, please email your resume and portfolio to Gary Good: gary.g.good@oracle.com.

Job ID: 17000OM3

Job: UX Designer at MappedIn

MappedIn is looking for a UX Designer for their Kitchener office.

Who we are and what we do

Mappedin is building the leading platform for businesses to help their customers search and discover the indoors. Our story starts at the University of Waterloo, when the founders wished they had a way to navigate the sprawling campus. The old, out-of-date building plans posted on walls seemed painfully primitive in today’s digital world. They quickly realized the same challenge existed among many indoor spaces. To enable search and navigation indoors, Mappedin set out to build the best tools for property owners to manage their dynamic spaces. Mappedin works with the ten largest malls in Canada, the largest retail REITs in the US, and in stores, hospitals, campuses, and airports around the world.

At Mappedin, we have a strong culture of design. One of our founders is a designer himself so design has been embedded into the product development process from the beginning. We firmly believe that design plays an integral role in creating the best possible product that is used by millions of people.

Who you are and what you’ll do

You are aware and excited about new design concepts and love to learn. We expect you to be passionate about design that is research and data-driven. 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 Head of Product Strategy, you will own UX design from beginning to end:

• Define and execute UX process across Mappedin
• Validate product designs through usability studies
• Run user story mapping sessions / develop user journey maps
• Develop & maintain user personas
• Build and test design prototypes
• Contribute to information architecture of Mappedin’s products
• Effectively communicate designs using mockups, wireframes and written descriptions
• 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
• Embrace design challenges that come from designing for emerging platforms like large screen interactive displays

The ideal candidate likely has experience in one or more of the following areas as well:

• Brought SaaS products to market, spanning some or all of the spectrum of research, ideation, product validation, usability testing and iterative improvements post-launch
• Talked to customers in a design capacity where you worked to understand business pains, find insights for new opportunities and built empathy with end users
• Made iterative improvements based on customer usage data
• Worked collaboratively with other business units (Development, Operations, Sales, Marketing, etc.) to identify problems worth solving and prioritized solutions
• Designed whitelabeled solutions
• Designed for interfaces driven by user generated content

What are some challenges?

Given the rapid growth of Mappedin over the past couple years (we’ve tripled in revenue each year for the last 2 years!) there are definitely some growing pains as we figure out how to mature our processes and build new products for emerging markets. The Product Strategy team will look to you to help guide how Mappedin can bring consistency to our design process while maintaining our flair for the creative and innovative.

We are currently in the midst of a transition between agency-style design to product-style design. Up until now, we’ve had more of a consultative approach to our work, but having recently found a very strong product-market fit in the REIT space, we are well underway transitioning to building for the market instead of an individual customer. We have the opportunity to apply our history of design excellence to this new challenge, but we’re looking for your help to make it happen. 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, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, but we are firm believers in supplying whatever tools are necessary for you to do your best work. Our final products are most often built using 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 whatever hardware or office equipment you want to help you do your best work. We will do whatever 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, there’s a blank bright orange jersey here waiting for your name to be printed on it.

Lastly, if you’re allergic to cats, don’t worry! Our office cat stays on the other side of the office and won’t bother you unless you decide to work in the collab area there.

Apply on the MappedIn website.

Job: Senior Interaction Designer at Thalmic Labs

About you

Joy for you comes from finding creative ways to reconcile a mix of user insights, product requirements, and technical capabilities into the most compelling and desirable product experiences. You seek to understand and shape the big picture, but also love rolling up your sleeves and digging into the details. You bring the experience of proven successes (and occasional failures), and can lend that insight into helping to drive and elevate the practice of interaction design at Thalmic. 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 will do

• Contribute to the overall vision and user strategy for Thalmic products, working closely with other designers, product managers, marketing, and engineers to ensure designs are successfully brought to life.
• Help evolve and champion a Design Language System for next-gen Thalmic products that defines interaction models and patterns for multi-platform experiences (wearable, mobile, web).
• Distill user insights and product requirements into simple and intuitive designs, using sketches, storyboards, wireframes, and/or interactive prototypes to communicate your ideas.
• Generate multiple concepts that fulfill product scenarios and present in the context of informal and formal reviews. Use data and best practices to advocate a strong point of view, while being open to feedback from other stakeholders.
• Lead design sprints, exploratory design studios, and other collaborative working sessions with team members and partner stakeholders.
• Leverage your knowledge of user research methodologies to iteratively test and validate designs, gathering data-driven insights to champion for change.
• Help drive schedule and direction for interaction design deliverables, working with other designers to ensure quality and timeliness are met.
• Work closely with developers to ensure implementation adheres to design specifications and to resolve situations when technical capabilities and design needs do not align.
• Bring thought leadership within and outside of the UX team in the form of collaboration, feedback, mentoring, and an advocacy for user-centric design.

What you need

• A strong portfolio demonstrating a diversity of experience and strong system-level thinking. It should showcase your design process, from ideation through to the final design, and clearly state your individual contribution to each project/product.
• Degree in a relevant field (Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction, etc.)
• Industry experience covering a diverse range of products and platforms; consumer product experience is highly desired. You bring first-hand knowledge of what it takes to ship a product to market.
• Advanced experience with the principles and concepts of user-centred design, information architecture, usability testing, and UX best practices.
• 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.
• Passion for emerging technologies and a hunger to innovate. Comfortable working in ambiguous conditions and able to adapt quickly.
• Proficiency with industry tools, such as Sketch, Invision, Adobe CSS, Flinto, Principle, or equivalent.

Bonus points for

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

Feel like you can’t tick all the boxes above? If you have some of the skills and experience that we’re looking for and are willing to use your talent to learn the rest, we encourage you to apply!

Why Thalmic

Day-to-day, we challenge each other to constantly raise the bar, encourage unconventional thinking to achieve innovative breakthroughs, and are passionately committed to surpassing our goals. We advocate a healthy lifestyle and promote continuous learning in a flexible work environment. Most of all, we set visionary goals, and we’re passionate about building the best, most impactful products that people will love.

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 Intel Capital, Spark Capital and The Amazon Alexa Fund.

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, including Digital Trends’ “Best of CES 2014” Award for Cool Tech.

Apply online here.

Job: Senior Visual Designer at Thalmic Labs

About you

You are passionate about solving real world problems for users in visually innovative and compelling ways. You bring experience in leading design thinking activities, systematically and collaboratively building a point of view that you can champion with ease. You willingly roll up your sleeves and contribute in a hands-on way, leveraging an exceptional eye for detail and a keen sense of design. Your track record of proven successes (and occasional failures) equip you with the insight needed to drive and elevate the practice of visual design at Thalmic. You are looking to make an impact and see wearable technology as the industry to do just that.

What you will do

• Contribute to the overall vision and user strategy for Thalmic products, from concept exploration through implementation, working closely with other designers, product managers, marketing, and engineers, to bring simple, intuitive, and beautiful products to life.
• Lead and drive the initial creative process, working with other designers to build and champion a Design Language System for next-gen Thalmic products that span multiple platforms (wearable, mobile, and web).
• Drive visual direction from concept to ship, producing high-quality visuals in the form of mood boards, storyboards, interactive prototypes, design specifications, and production assets.
• Generate multiple concepts that fulfill product scenarios and present in the context of informal and formal reviews. Use data and best practices to advocate a strong point of view, while being open to feedback from other stakeholders.
• Create and maintain design standards, reference materials and style guides.
• Help drive schedule and direction for motion design deliverables, working with other designers to ensure quality and timeliness are met.
• Work closely with developers to ensure implementation adheres to design specifications and to resolve situations when technical capabilities and design needs do not align.
• Bring thought leadership within and outside of the UX team in the form of collaboration, feedback, mentoring, and an advocacy for user-centric design.

What you need

• A strong portfolio demonstrating a diversity of experience and strong system-level thinking. It should cover the breadth of your design process, from ideation through to the final design, and clearly state your individual contribution to the project/product.
• BS/BA or Associates degree in graphic design, user interface design or equivalent.
• Industry experience covering a diverse range of products and platforms; consumer product experience is highly desired. You bring first-hand knowledge of what it takes to ship a product to market.
• An ability to think in visual systems patterns and styles that will create a unity in product experience while supporting a strong, clean visual identity.
• Equal passion and aptitude for contributing at the strategic level as well as the at the hands-on, detailed level.
• Exceptional graphic/visual design capabilities including typography, sketching, composition, layout, colour, iconography, and the presentation of information.
• Excellent communication skills. Must be able to communicate your ideas at all stages of the design process to a wide variety of audiences, understanding how to balance a strong point of view with an empathy for other perspectives and constraints.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design practices. Curiosity and a desire to understand the end user is a must.
• Passion for emerging technologies and a hunger to innovate.
• Strong, demonstrated proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flinto, Invision, etc.

Bonus points for

• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Experience in interaction design and/or motion graphics, including UX transitions and animations.
• Ability to create interactive design prototypes in Axure, Flash, AfterEffects, Maya, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, or other tools.

Feel like you can’t tick all the boxes above? If you have some of the skills and experience that we’re looking for and are willing to use your talent to learn the rest, we encourage you to apply!

Why Thalmic

Day-to-day, we challenge each other to constantly raise the bar, encourage unconventional thinking to achieve innovative breakthroughs, and are passionately committed to surpassing our goals. We advocate a healthy lifestyle and promote continuous learning in a flexible work environment. Most of all, we set visionary goals, and we’re passionate about building the best, most impactful products that people will love.

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 Intel Capital, Spark Capital and The Amazon Alexa Fund.

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, including Digital Trends’ “Best of CES 2014” Award for Cool Tech.

Apply online here.

Job: Senior User Experience Designer at NetSuite

Are you ready to take on the next biggest challenge in your career?  Do you thrive in an entrepreneurial environment that delivers industry leading cloud applications? Oracle NetSuite is building a next-generation, ERP cloud suite that is powering some of the world’s highest growth medium sized companies. If you’re looking to share your unique perspective and ideas at a collaborative table and help equip all kinds of businesses achieve their visions, check us out.

Position Summary

We’re looking for a new member of our global Experience Design Team to work out of Kitchener location. Our team lives to bring delight to our enterprise software products, and you will too!

As a Senior User Experience Designer, you are a creative problem solver with a passion for providing innovative & engaging designs that are easy to use. Specifically, you’ll work with cross-functional teams of designers, developers & product managers to build a new vitality into our set of Financial products. Using a combination of best practice and innovation, you’ll help our team create a strong, best-in-class experience for our global customers.

You understand users. You design to solve problems. You see elegance and power in simple interactions. You can gather requirements, make decisions, present ideas, and work collaboratively to come up with viable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on creative problem solving in a cloud-driven enterprise software system.
• Work with a multi-disciplined of designers, user researchers and product managers in a fast-paced, dynamic, agile environment, balancing business value, technology, user needs, and operational costs.
• Turn actionable user research & high level product requirements into high-quality design deliverables that communicate design solutions and facilitate discussion, including user flows & wireframes.
• Facilitate design sessions, and use iterative UX techniques to synthesize findings and feedback into an informed experience design.
• Make informed decisions: present design alternatives and effectively communicate rationale and trade-offs, and react quickly and confidently to any changes in project plans.
• Demonstrate a passion for iteration and eagerness to receive feedback, thoughtfully incorporating user, UX team member, developer & product manager responses into design revisions.
• Prioritize multiple projects of varying timelines, degrees of complexity and scope.

Qualifications

• Degree in Product Design, Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 5 years working in the field of UX Design. Experience with “big data software” a huge plus.
• Online portfolio demonstrating your problem-solving ability: problem analysis, personas, scenarios, user journeys, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, task-flows or other relevant design artifacts.
• Analytical and strategic mindset. We privilege how you think over pixel-perfect visual design skills.
• Flexibility to work with geographically distributed teams
• Leadership abilities with exceptional interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile Development methodology is a plus.
• Experience in User Research and Usability Testing is an asset.
• Front end web design experience (HTML, CSS) is an asset.

As part of Oracle’s employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.

To apply, please email your resume and portfolio to Gary Good: gary.g.good@oracle.com.

Job ID: 17000ETV

Job: Product Designer at Igloo

Igloo’s goal is to help people communicate and collaborate in the workplace. This means creating simple but effective workflows to enable people to create content and a delightful experience for consuming and collaborating on it.  We need a design leader who fights for the user, sets a high bar for design in all of our products and is a champion for instilling a design culture in our business.

Our Ideal Candidate

You walk in the shoes of the user, think in experiences and are passionate about creating solutions that are intuitive and motivating. You understand that design and performance are not mutually exclusive and you know how to blend the two. And you love making interfaces that are easy to use and beautiful at the same time.

You use a spectrum of tools: personas, design sprints, customer journey maps, wireframes, and occasionally, the back of a napkin to help you design effective solutions to customer problems. You love taking rough ideas and iterating on them until they are a refined product that reinforces our brand and vision.

You enjoy working and collaborating with product managers, developers, testers and company leadership to create the best experiences for customers. You will question and gather feedback on designs, prototypes and demos to ensure they live up to a high standard. Above all else you are passionate about product design, the user, and designing delightful experiences.

Think you’re the right fit? Submit your re­sume including a link to your portfolio to careers@igloosoftware.com.

Key responsibilities

• Join a team that’s leading interaction design for our product.
• Take complex ideas and translate them into clean workflows based on user research.
• Facilitate user testing and conduct interface analysis.
• Engage with our customers and product team to understand user needs and competitive landscape.
• Aid in the creation of user stories and support our engineering teams during scrum sprints.
• Create and maintain design guidelines to ensure consistency across our applications.
• Work with design and development teams to bring UX concepts to life.
• Evangelize the importance of design within the organization.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 2-4 years’ experience working in UX for web-based platforms.
• Experience in user research, interaction design and visual design for the web.
• Strong creative research, writing, and design skills.
• Strong communication skills, but better listening skills.
• You live in Sketch for early concepts, wireframes and high fidelity mockups.
• Adept at creating interactive prototypes with InVision, Marvel, Flinto or similar tools.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with graphic design.
• Ability to write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience with responsive and native mobile app design (iOS, Android).

Education

3-year diploma or 4-year degree in design, computer science, human-computer interaction, or similar.

Job: Manager of UX Design at Christie Digital Systems

Join the UX team at Christie in a leadership role and help solve meaningful and complex design challenges with a team of dedicated professionals. Established several years ago at Christie, the UX team has made a significant shift in our culture and in our product lines, shifting us from technology centric to user centric designs. The on-going collaboration with engineering teams in designing new processes and output have helped changed the shape of the professional AV industry, with several high profile wins attributed to the group. This role will offer a high profile chance to work in industrial, visual and interaction design paradigms to create meaningful, enjoyable experiences that are market leading.

In this role, you will assume the primary leadership, scaling up staffing, managing and mentoring staff, providing insight and guidance to the team, establishing work processes and principles, work closely with engineering and product management, organize user research, seek greater market and user insights and help in making the inevitable trade-offs between usability and engineering constraints. You will be one of the primary champions of UX at Christie and will interact with many beyond engineering and product management including sales, customers of all levels and at industry events.

You will have three or more years of leadership experience of a UX team and five to fifteen years of industry experience. A keen understanding and experience in industrial design, visual design and interaction design principles are a must. A passion for product design and the ability to bridge the gap between users and complex tools as well as a desire to understand and analyze market trends and dynamics are key. A strong portfolio of work along with demonstrable leadership qualities will be vital too. A dynamic self-starter with a passion for leading teams to greatness in a UX discipline will define the winning candidate.

To apply, please email Hans Kao at hans.kao@christiedigital.com.

Job: Interaction Designer at Manulife RED Lab

Imagine a place where grown men and women are not afraid to play with Lego. Where practically all surfaces are made as canvases for your ideas (that means you can write on them, yo). Where you — yes, YOU — get to have a say on what cool new shiny toy you want to play with next in order to solve real problems in how financial services (think: banking and insurance and everything in between) is done today. And you get paid to do it.

Welcome to Manulife’s Research, Exploration and Development Lab! But you can call it the RED Lab. We’re a small team with big ideas and we want more idea hackers like you. We are fully funded and supported by Manulife but largely work autonomously like a startup. We aim high, run fast, and jump often. Our playground is the Communitech Hub — the origin of Pebble Watch, Thalmic Labs, Vidyard and more. This is where all cool things related to startups and innovation in Kitchener/Waterloo happen. And that’s where we want to play, too.

About the role

The Interaction Designer will be able to discover, understand, and communicate the organization’s business requirements, the emotional desires of our customers, and the context in which these two come together. Regardless of form-factor or device, the Interaction Designer will make deliberate design decisions backed up by solid reasoning and evidence. We’re looking for someone who is part researcher and part UI designer, who is driven by curiosity, a healthy appetite to learn, and an eagerness to solve people’s problems.

About you

• Are you a creative who is analytic? Or an analytic who is creative?
• Do you believe in and champion the value of user research?
• Do you love designing interfaces that help and delight people?
• Are you excited to influence and convince your peers to look at the world through your
  empathy-tinted worldview?
• Do you get excited by the idea of advocating for the value of design in a large organization?
• Are you comfortable with prototyping and interface-building tools like Keynote, Sketch,
  InVision, Illustrator or any other tools to bring your design ideas to life? Are you always looking
  out for new tools that can make your design process better?
• Do you believe that financial services need to be designed better for human experiences?
• Do you care and wonder about how many more things can be stuffed in a pizza crust?

Then RED Lab wants to talk to you!

How you will contribute

• Participate in and contribute to project kickoff and ideation sessions and help to set the overall design strategy.
• Plan, coordinate, and conduct user requirements analysis, task analysis, conceptual modelling, interaction design, and usability testing.
• Design and specify user interfaces for multiple form factors including smartphones, smartwatches, and even voice, using participatory and iterative design techniques, including observational studies, customer interviews, usability testing, design sprints, rapid prototyping, and other forms of requirements discovery.
• Be comfortable with producing and evangelizing design artifacts like personas, storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, design prototypes, and design specifications.
• Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually with a strong bend towards storytelling.
• Work closely with RED Lab/Manulife developers to ensure that design specifications are understood and implemented.
• Occasionally mentor and educate co-ops, peers, and senior managers on the design process.

What success looks like

Success in this role means delivering results and excitement through team work and a relentless focus on what’s best for Manulife’s customers and the organization. Success is walking into RED Lab every work day eager to learn about emerging trends in technology and design, and having the drive and curiosity to bring your wildest imaginations to life. Success is embracing uncertainty and being willing to discover as you continue to rapidly prototype your way to knowledge. Success is making it easier for the larger organization to adopt your ideas and enthusiasm for change. Success is believing that you can make a difference.

How to apply

If this posting has resonated with you, then what are you waiting for? Send your cover letter and portfolio of your best works and design process (we really, really would like to see a portfolio), to Ali_Tariq@manulife.com. If we see a potentially good fit, we’ll call you in to get to know each other a little more!

Job: UI/UX Designer at Bedouin

If you’re an individual looking to work in an environment that facilitates your obsessive need to perfect details — this is the role for you.

We’re looking for a team player that is familiar with both UX Research and can apply those principles in their own UI/interface designs. This role will primarily be working on our internal projects, and will involve some occasional work on long-standing client projects. You will collaborate with internal Bedouin colleagues to develop and maintain our projects, along with experimenting by building out mini projects and tools for Bedouin in our laboratory.

This role is perfect for someone who cares about the methodical parts of UX, creative pieces of UI, and the ability to drive innovation through growth by design.

You can do this:

• Communicate like a boss
• Familiar with best UX practises and techniques
• Create pixel perfect interface design, while still keeping in mind UX practises
• Enhance designs with fluid, elegant animation and interactivity
• Constantly seek inspiration, and share that inspiration with others
• Stay humble and stay hungry, leaving ego at the door
• Articulate challenges before they become problems
• Work hard, play hard, and love what you do

What we expect:

• Experience with Sketch
• Execute interaction design and visual design as a part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Design elegant solutions to complex workflows
• Consult with clients and lead experience architect
• Research interaction design trend and technology trends
• Create developer-ready wireframes, behavioural specifications and personas
• Develop mobile and web mock-ups and demos
• Have been developing for a while now (over 2 years)

Bonus Points:

If have experience with Principle, we’ll be happy campers.

You get this:

• Money
• Free snacks (who hates fruit roll-ups?!) and frequent company lunches/dinners
• Amazing clients to work with
• A great working space in Downtown Kitchener right next to the Innovation District
• A seasoned team with acquisitions under their belt that work hard, have fun, and love challenges
• Growth opportunities

To apply

Please send your resume and cover letter to hello@bedouin.com. Please include your portfolio, Behance or Dribbble links, and/or samples of your work to be considered for this position.

*Please note: While we sincerely appreciate your interest in Bedouin, due to a high number of applicants, sometimes we can only respond directly to those who best quality and meet the specific criteria and standards of our roles.