Job: UI/UX Designer at Brock Solutions

Location: Kitchener, ON
Position: UI/UX Designer
Company: Brock Solutions

Brock Solutions is an engineering solutions and professional services company specializing in the design, build and implementation of real-time solutions for broad based industrial/manufacturing and transportation/logistics organizations globally. With approximately 400 employees in Canada and the U.S., Brock Solutions is a privately held, employee owned organization with over 30 years in the real-time solutions space.

As Brock Solutions continues to grow and respond to the on-going requirements of major clients, we need to add talent to our base of outstanding professionals. We are currently seeking a UI / UX Designer to join our team of experienced professionals located at our head office in Kitchener, ON.

As a UI / UX Designer, you will shape the future of Brock Solutions’ customer interface by creating compelling, effective, and innovative user experiences across all software-based customer touch points. All candidates under consideration must be able to present a comprehensive portfolio.

Duties Include:

• Envision and design the user experience for new products and feature enhancements
• Collaborate with teams to define customer needs and application screen flows for web, mobile, and desktop platforms
• Construct working prototypes, page designs, graphics, and mock-ups to support development of client projects
• Define analytics requirements to help monitor the customer user experience and use the metrics to drive suggestions for improvement
• Collaborate with the internal software teams to ensure applications are programmed to meet design guidelines and meet both the client needs and technical constraints/requirements
• Participate in the establishment and documentation of standards for the user experience

Requirements:

• 2+ years of relevant experience in application UI design
• Up to date knowledge on new trends in UI and accessibility design
• Strong knowledge of web based technologies (HTML5, Sass, Less, CSS3, Bootstrap)
• Experience with one or more prototyping and graphics tools (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.)
• Knowledge of user experience testing and analysis
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to collaborate and influence effectively across all levels of an organization
• Organized, self-directed, efficient and able to manage complex projects in a timely manner
• Be comfortable interacting with client managers
• Degree or Certifications in Usability, Human Factors, Computer Science, Systems Design, or related discipline

Brock Solutions strives to create a respectful, accessible and inclusive work environment. Upon individual request, Brock Solutions will endeavour to remove barriers to the hiring process to accommodate those candidates with disabilities.

Sound interesting? Apply online at brocksolutions.com.

Job: User Experience Designer at Blue Coat

Type: One year contract
Location: Waterloo, Ontario
Position: User Experience Designer – 2265BR
Company: Blue Coat

The Company

Blue Coat empowers enterprises to safely and securely choose the best applications, services, devices, data sources, and content the world has to offer, so they can create, communicate, collaborate, innovate, execute, compete and win in their markets. We have a long history of protecting organizations, their data and their employees and are the trusted brand to 15,000 customers worldwide — including 86 percent of the FORTUNE Global 500. With a robust portfolio of intellectual property anchored by more than 200 patents and patents pending, Blue Coat continues to drive innovations that assure business continuity, agility and governance.

The Opportunity

The Waterloo UX group is responsible for the design and evolution of our customers’ user experience. As a User Experience Designer, you work closely with product managers to define use cases and user workflows. You work closely with the software development team to articulate these requirements, enabling the team to deliver elegant and useful user interfaces. The ideal candidate knows how to work with an existing product suite, while also advancing the usability of new solutions.

The typical duties for this position would include:

• Working with Subject Matter Experts, Systems Engineers and end users to ensure that designs meet the task and user goals.
• Designing usable Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
• Documenting the designs in a structured and traceable manner.
• Writing style guides to ensure consistency and a common look and feel to our products.
• Coordinating and facilitating all phases of usability study preparation, including recruiting, scheduling, questionnaire development, and scenario scripting.
• Performing usability testing on GUIs in both a lab and field setting
• Presenting findings with actionable recommendations, working with team members to help prioritize recommendations into feasible solutions.

The Requirements

We are looking for someone with:

• At least 3 years of user interface design experience, preferably in complex systems.
• Post secondary education in Psychology, Information Systems, Computer Science or related discipline.
• Understanding of interaction design and experience in applying user-centered design methods

The following would be a real plus for the position:

• Ability to translate user needs analysis or other engineering analysis to design requirements.
• Background in requirements gathering (interviewing and observation skills)
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication and team working skills
• Ability to create effective documentation
• Graphic design

To Apply

Please apply directly to our corporate web site requisition number 2265BR.

Job: Lead UX Designer at TD Lab

Position: Lead UX Designer
Company: TD Canada Trust
Location: Waterloo, ON

About TD Bank Group

The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (“TD” or “the Bank”).

TD is the sixth largest bank in North America by branches and serves over 24 million customers in three key businesses operating in a number of locations in financial centres around the globe:

• Canadian Retail, including TD Canada Trust, TD Auto Finance Canada, TD Wealth, TD Direct Investing, and TD Insurance;
• U.S. Retail, including TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, TD Auto Finance U.S., and an investment in TD Ameritrade; and
• Wholesale Banking, including TD Securities.

TD had CDN$1.1 trillion in assets on January 31, 2015. TD also ranks among the world’s leading online financial services firms, with approximately 9.7 million active online and mobile customers. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under the symbol “TD”.

Department Overview

Reporting to the AVP, TD Lab & Enterprise Innovation, the Senior UX Designer plays a key role leading solutions exploration, design, and development across the TD Lab and TD Lab Accelerator teams – rapidly bringing new solution concepts to customers as in-market betas, and acting on their feedback. This is a unique opportunity to work in a highly collaborative team, learn continuously, unleash your creativity, and move as quickly as your ability.

Lean, creative, and experimental, the TD Lab delivers exceptional experiences by understanding our customers. The TD Lab team explores new solutions and emerging technologies through ideation, design, prototyping, and tech partnerships – and delivers new solutions to test in market.

Job Description

• Lead and mentor two teams of designers and developers, including experienced engineers and co-op students, through all aspects of the design process. This role is both hands-on and instructive with the ability to deliver, and guide others.
• Continuously evolve TD Lab design processes, including experimentation and learning with emerging methodologies
• Design flows and experiences that are incredibly simple and elegant
• Work closely with other designers, engineers, and marketing to ship extraordinary products and experiences
• Design highly functional user interfaces using design research techniques, including in-field observations, customer interviews, usability testing, and other forms of user need-finding
• Build personas, storyboards, flowcharts, wireframes and prototypes
• Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented
• Lead and mentor TD Lab Accelerator Designer

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or a related design discipline
• More than 5 years experience creating impactful and attractive products with multidisciplinary teams
• Knowledge of interaction design and user testing methodologies, across a wide variety of ecosystems and platforms.
• Love of collaboration, and enjoys teaching others
• A solid understanding of visual design principles across a range of digital platforms including web, mobile, social, tablet, kiosk, and whatever is next
• Proven ability to generate assets for build phases
• Good communication skills to articulate creative and aesthetic choices to team members
• Capable of taking design and performance feedback extremely well
• Ability to multitask, prioritize projects, and communicate progress and expected milestones
• Track record of maintaining the quality of your designs throughout all phases of the project
• Obsessed with finding the sweet spot between beauty and functionality
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Balsamiq, Axure, etc.
• You need to love what you do, have opinions, work well in a team, and get excited about design and UX.
• Have experience in guiding real products, for use by real people from concept to completion.

Inclusiveness

At TD, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities in which we live and serve, and creating an environment where every employee has the opportunity to reach her/his potential.

TD is committed to providing accommodations. if you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

Apply now.

Job: Solutions UX Designer at TD Lab

Position: Solutions UX Designer
Company: TD Canada Trust
Location: Waterloo, ON

About TD Bank Group

The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (“TD” or “the Bank”).

TD is the sixth largest bank in North America by branches and serves over 24 million customers in three key businesses operating in a number of locations in financial centres around the globe:

• Canadian Retail, including TD Canada Trust, TD Auto Finance Canada, TD Wealth, TD Direct Investing, and TD Insurance;
• U.S. Retail, including TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, TD Auto Finance U.S., and an investment in TD Ameritrade; and
• Wholesale Banking, including TD Securities.

TD had CDN$1.1 trillion in assets on January 31, 2015. TD also ranks among the world’s leading online financial services firms, with approximately 9.7 million active online and mobile customers. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under the symbol “TD”.

Department Overview

Reporting to the AVP, TD Lab & Enterprise Innovation, the Senior UX Designer plays a key role leading solutions exploration, design, and development across the TD Lab and TD Lab Accelerator teams – rapidly bringing new solution concepts to customers as in-market betas, and acting on their feedback. This is a unique opportunity to work in a highly collaborative team, learn continuously, unleash your creativity, and move as quickly as your ability.

Lean, creative, and experimental, the TD Lab delivers exceptional experiences by understanding our customers. The TD Lab team explores new solutions and emerging technologies through ideation, design, prototyping, and tech partnerships – and delivers new solutions to test in market.

Job Description

The Solutions Designer plays a key role leading solutions exploration, design, and development – rapidly bringing new solution concepts to customers as in-market betas, and acting on their feedback. This is a unique opportunity to work in a highly collaborative team, learn continuously, unleash your creativity, and move as quickly as your ability.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design flows and experiences that are incredibly simple and elegant
• Work closely with other designers, engineers, and marketing to ship extraordinary products and experiences
• Designing highly functional user interfaces using design research techniques, including in-field observations, customer interviews, usability testing, and other forms of user need-finding.
• Build personas, storyboards, flowcharts, wireframes and prototypes.
• Effectively communicating research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually.
• Working closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or a related design discipline
• 2-3 years experience creating impactful and attractive products with multidisciplinary teams
• Knowledge of interaction design and user testing methodologies, across a wide variety of ecosystems and platforms.
• Love of collaboration
• A solid understanding of visual design principles across a range of digital platforms including web, mobile, social, tablet, kiosk, and whatever is next
• Proven ability to generate assets for build phases
• Good communication skills to articulate creative and aesthetic choices to team members
• Capable of taking design and performance feedback extremely well
• Ability to multitask, prioritize projects, and communicate progress and expected milestones
• Track record of maintaining the quality of your designs throughout all phases of the project
• Obsessed with finding the sweet spot between beauty and functionality
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Balsamiq, Axure, etc.
• You need to love what you do, have opinions, work well in a team, and get excited about design and UX.
• Have experience in guiding real products, for use by real people from concept to completion.

Inclusiveness

At TD, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities in which we live and serve, and creating an environment where every employee has the opportunity to reach her/his potential.

TD is committed to providing accommodations. if you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

Apply now.

Job: UX Design at Innosphere

Company: Innosphere
Position:UX Designer
Location: Guelph, Ontario

Who we are?

Established in 1997, Innosphere has been providing superior software solutions for enterprise and small business in an industry that is constantly moving forward. As a member of our Agile Team, you will be part of a thriving, fast-paced, self-directed, collaborative environment where our goal is to achieve 100% client satisfaction. We are looking for talented, high-energy team members to help us create and innovate software solutions. Innosphere is committed to personal and professional development and growth within the organization.

Who we are looking for?

The desired UX Designer will work with product development teams by leading the design of beautiful and intuitive user experiences for software applications including online, mobile and installed. In this role you will provide wireframe mockups and storyboards of the user experience, take the lead role in the design review process, and work closely with users to incorporate feedback into your designs. In addition to the design of the user experience, you will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of a toolkit shared by multiple development teams to create a consistent user experience across multiple products.

What are the Core Responsibilities?

Responsible for the design of the user experience for products created by the Product Delivery team in the Software segment

• Participate in Product Delivery as a member of the cross-functional team and support ongoing work iterations month-to-month
• Create detailed storyboards, mockups, prototypes and communicate designs to product managers and the development team
• Produce and manage cross-browser compliant cascading stylesheets (CSS) for use by the development team
• Establish relationships with Product Managers to obtain client feedback and incorporate into designs
• Schedule meetings with stakeholders to learn both the needs of the business and clients as well as any constraints that may exist including technical ones from engineering
• Work closely with the QA team to ensure that your CSS files support the authorized browsers for the product you are working on
• You will help the team document the style guide as changes to the toolkit occur.

What skills and qualifications we are looking for?

• Degree in Human Computer Interaction, Interactive Media, Graphic Design (or related field) is a plus (not a requirement)
• 3+ years of experience in the design of web applications (SaaS)
• Experience working within an Agile software development team
• Experience designing for Mobile platforms including iPhone, iPad
• A well documented portfolio that showcases samples of design work
• Strong knowledge of web based technologies HTML5, Sass, Less, Modernizr, CSS3 and cross-browser compliance
• Experience with frameworks such as Boostrap or Foundation a plus
• Experience with jQuery is a must
• Experience TypeScript is a plus
• Knowledge of usability testing is an asset
• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills

Apply online!

Job: Senior UX Architect at Sun Life

Company: SunLife
Position: Senior UX Architect – MAR01998
Location: Waterloo, Ontario

Sun Life Financial is seeking a leader with significant UX/UI experience to join our Digital User Experience team within Canadian Operations. You will be responsible for guiding and creating remarkable and progressive digital experiences for a variety of audiences to support our business in Canada. You will work closely with stakeholders in multiple business units to define the user experience for Sun Life Financial secure digital properties, ensuring they closely align with the client’s key success factors. You will work collaboratively with fellow members of the team to conceptualize design and prototype ideas for implementation on the web, mobile and social channels.

You as a UX Architect you will:

• Provide insightful high-level UX thought leadership and consulting in on various projects yet also have the ability to seamlessly shift to delivering detailed project designs and documentation required
• Determine the need for user research and user testing and orchestrate and oversee the process. Interpret and review research findings for presentations to project teams
• Lead the design of user interface related features and participate in developing progressive solutions for the public facing web, mobile and social channels. Apply sound interaction design principles to influence project strategy and direction
• Projects manage user experience deliverables produced by internal and 3rd party resources as required to ensure expectations are successfully met
• Be an evangelist for user experience practices across the company
• Be our in-house expert on web accessibility issues and ensure compliance with evolving accessibility standards
• As part of the UX Centre of Excellence, develop and maintain enterprise standard documents such as; user scenarios, personas, user flows, design mockups, wire-frames, prototypes, specifications, navigation maps, UI standards documents and other design documents
• Ensure standards and best practices are appropriately communicated and documented in Style Guides and other related UX Centre of Excellence assets
• Work to make sure that the workflow reflects the user’s needs and ensure consistency among features
• Define compelling and innovative user interfaces and interaction styles which result in improved user productivity for computer-based web and mobile interfaces
• Share user-centric design best practices through education and informal sessions across the organization.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in design / user experience
• University degree or certification in User Experience related field or equivalent work experience
• Portfolio demonstrating impactful customer experiences, including experience developing digital products from initial concept through to implementation
• Design experience ranging across web, mobile (mobile web and native applications) and social channels
• Strong knowledge and experience designing wireframes and interactive prototypes using industry software (e.g. Axure, Balsamiq)
• Well versed in current accessibility standards
• Proven track record and a passion for designing compelling, award-winning user interfaces
• Excellent design, verbal, writing and presentation skills
• Experience working with clients and various departments within a team environment
• Proficiency in HTML5 and CSS
• Knowledge of current web standards and the latest trends
• Ability to successfully manage and deliver on multiple projects

Note: depending on the specific resource hired for this role, more emphasis may be placed on specific responsibilities listed above.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com

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We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Job: Senior User Experience Designer at OpenText

Company: OpenText
Location: Waterloo, Ontario

Enabling the digital world

OpenText enables the digital world by simplifying, transforming, and accelerating enterprise information needs, on premises or in the cloud. We embrace all things digital and are committed to being the Best Place to Work for our Employees in over 140 locations around the world.

We obsess over our customers to ensure they are wildly successful in embracing the Digital World. Our customers entrust us with their most important information, we need to be their most trusted partner. What we do, we do well. What we create, we do purposefully to impact the world. If you believe in this and are passionate about enabling the Digital World then let OpenText turn your career vision into reality.

The Opportunity

User Experience Designers at Open Text research, identify, and solve complex software design problems in an innovative, highly collaborative environment. We translate product requirements into designs that deliver compelling experiences that solve business problems. We’re responsible for designing the user experience framework, interaction and interface design for complex enterprise software applications.

User Experience Design works intimately with development to steer implementation details by advocating on behalf of the customer- in an in an agile/iterative product development environment.

You are great at

• Support Program and Product Management by performing user research, developing ongoing relationships with customers to build a shared understanding of their problems and needs
• Work with Product Management in helping to create the product backlog and define the user experience vision for the product.
• Identify and create user personas, buyer personas, and scenarios.
• Conceptualize, design and deliver intuitive and compelling designs for a complex product suite, or suites, that clearly support customer needs and business objectives.
• Advocate user needs throughout the development lifecycle in an agile/iterative environment to inspire the engineering team to develop the right product.
• Validate designs with customers and other stakeholders in order to drive iterative improvements throughout the development lifecycle.
• Coordinate among multiple designers supporting a suite of products, line of business or business unit.
• Maintain a cohesive user experience strategy for area of immediate responsibility; may lead or coordinate among other designers on cross-company UXD strategy. Researches and evaluates new product UXD support opportunities.
• Participate in customer site visits, beta test visits, customer briefings, customer councils, user group meetings, technical conferences, seminars, etc. as appropriate and as budget permits. Creatively engage with customers via virtual councils, webex sessions, and other remote technologies, especially when limited budget opportunities persist.
• Mentor peers, stakeholders, and teammates on customer-centered design principles and methodologies.
• Contribute to and help champion User Experience Design team initiatives, such as creation of design guidelines, process enhancements, toolkits, etc., fostering a customer-centered culture.
• Bring awareness of competitive software and emerging advances in the User Experience field, including interaction design, usability, user-centered design methods and state-of-the-art user interface technology into the company. Visit domestic / international customers and project teams (may travel 25% of time).
• Assist management to ensure proper workload balancing among other user experience designers as appropriate.
• Provide budget information to management for planning purposes. Assists management in developing budgets to ensure foresight and accuracy.
• Assist management in recruiting and staffing efforts, helping with initial applicant screening, on-site interviews and evaluations.
• Help drive awareness of the UXD team both inside and outside the company.

What it takes

• Strong technical background or the ability to quickly understand and articulate interactions in a complex technical environment
• Experience designing complex enterprise applications
• Experience in ECM, SAP, RM, BPM, ERP, WCM preferred
• UI development experience on web, desktop, or mobile platforms a plus
• Knowledge of UI development languages and tools (e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Java, C++) an asset
• 5+ years working with an experience design team… applicants with eclectic backgrounds welcome
• Passionate about creating products that best serve the needs of the user
• Effective at influencing and convincing colleagues, and highly motivated to effect change
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to conceptualize complex systems
• Demonstrated results-oriented work ethic and consistent record of meeting deadlines
• Excellent listener, facilitator, communicator, and team player
• Self-reliant, used to taking initiative, and great at follow-up
• Creative, with solid understanding of interaction design best practices / principles
• Requirements gathering and analysis
• Creation of user personas
• Task and workflow analysis
• Light prototyping (paper and click-through interactive)
• Heuristic evaluation and expert walk-throughs
• Usability testing and analysis of results and/or working with user researchers/usability engineers to convert test recommendations to design decisions
• Good analytical and organizational skills including the ability to organize and prioritize tasks
• Ability to work both independently and in a highly collaborate environment as part of a global User Experience Design team
• Ability to shift among multiple projects as needed in rapid, agile software development environment
• Goal driven; plans and manages toward achieving goals, anticipates problems and issues and proactively drives their resolution
• Prior experience doing UX within an Agile environment would be an asset
• Experience with a variety of UI design and prototyping tools, e.g. Visio, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Axure, Balsamiq, Flash, etc.
• Web Development (HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript) and Flash experience a plus
• Knowledge of GUI accessibility standards (Section 508, WCAG, etc.) a plus
• Knowledge of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products would be an asset

At OpenText we understand and value diversity in our employees and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire the best talent regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental condition, marital status, sex, age, veteran status or sexual orientation. We draw on our diversity and collective genius as we continue to shape a better future for our customers and be the Best Place to Work for our employees- nothing is off the table at OpenText. If you require accommodation in completing the application process please email accommodationrequests@opentext.com

Apply now

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Job: UX Developer at LBMX

Location: London, Ontario

Are you half designer half developer? Do you love to create beautiful and user friendly experiences, then help turn them into a reality? Then you’re the candidate for us.

We (LBMX Inc.) are looking for an individual that can help guide the look, feel and user experience of our line of business applications as an engaged member of our software development team.

The Must Have Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Interaction Design, Information Systems or related discipline.
• 2 or more years of experience in UX design and development.
• Proven ability to coach others on design and development techniques.
• History of designing and building excellent User Experiences.
• Solid understanding of Web Application design principles and what makes a good UX.
• Experience presenting data in a clear and workable fashion to users from a back end services.

The Must Have Technical Qualifications

• Experience programming with an emphasis on developing for the web.
• Expertise utilizing a graphic suite like Adobe Creative Suite.
• Mastery of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and 3rd part JavaScript libraries and frameworks.
• Knowledge of how to properly utilize LESS or SASS.
• Experience with UX testing.

The Nice To Have Qualifications

• Familiarity working with Microsoft Tools and Languages.
• Working knowledge of SQL Server and NoSQL packages.
• Knowledge of MVC and MVVM patterns.
• Familiarity with Telerik Controls.
• Knowledge of software development best practices.
• Previous experience as a member of an agile software development team.

How to apply

E-mail a resume and cover letter with salary expectations to jlediet@lbmx.com. The subject line of your e-mail must read “Job Application – UX Developer”.

Job: Senior User Experience Designer at McAfee

Type: Full-time
Location: Waterloo

As the world’s largest dedicated security technology company, McAfee delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to securely browse, shop and socialize on the Web through PCs, Macs and mobile devices. Our consumer products now extend well beyond anti-virus to include protection of identity, family, data, and mobile devices. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel, McAfee enjoys the benefits of independent operation but now with Intel’s global reach, access to world-renowned technology leadership, and even greater financial stability.

McAfee’s Consumer division is looking for a full time User Experience Designer to join the Consumer Experience Design team to design user interfaces and experiences that are useful, usable and desirable.

Key Responsibilities

• In this role, you will help create the user interaction model, information architecture, visual design, prototypes, and guidelines for McAfee user interfaces.
• You will create UI requirements based on product requirements, UI guidelines, user research, functional requirements, business goals, and company-wide strategic objectives.
• You will also participate in rapid design exploration and presentation of future product concepts, present ideas and designs in tangible forms (e.g., sketches, graphic mockups, prototypes), and work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented accurately and integrate with existing frameworks.
• You may also have the opportunity to participate in or conduct user and design research including: usability studies, ethnographic field research, user surveys, prototype testing, competitive product analysis, and latest industry & design trend research.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years designing user interfaces as a member of a user experience and design team
• Excellent understanding of principles of interface design and use of interactive technologies to build relationships with users
• Understanding of how Interaction Design relates to Web Design and Visual Design in building useful and compelling products
• Proven experience developing innovative and creative solutions to complex problems
• Ability to be self-managed while working on several projects simultaneously in a collaborative environment
• Experience with any of the following a strong plus: HTML/DHMTL, CSS, JavaScript AJAX
• Experience working on Consumer and Mobile products a strong plus
• Bachelors or Masters in Graphic Design, Information Systems, Interface Design, HCI, Human Factors, Computer Science, and/or Cognitive Psychology

To apply

Please apply online for this position.

Job: Senior UX Lead at Quarry

Type: Full-time
Location: St. Jacobs, Ontario

Quarry helps clients connect with their buyers and build their businesses by utilizing the power of customer insight. We leverage deep, global experience in persona development, strategic segmentation, user experience design, digital strategy and solution development, demand generation strategies and tactics, marketing automation, creative services and content asset development, channel marketing, and sales enablement tools to create buying experiences that fit with the way customers want to engage.

Currently, we have an immediate need for a full-time Senior UX Lead to join our fast-paced, talented team. The UX Lead will champion the role, contributions and practices of information, and interaction design, working to bring the power of well-designed experiences to Fortune 500 clients. The UX Lead will work alongside our creative arts, digital development and project management professionals, collaborating firsthand with clients to produce effective designs on time and on budget. As the Senior UX Lead on the team, you will also leverage your leadership and coaching abilities to nurture the talents and contributions of other UX Designers under your supervision

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading and acting as champion for the user throughout the user-centered design process
• Conducting contextual research for user and task analysis
• Gathering and incorporating the needs, requirements and perspectives of product managers and end users into designs
• Generating consistent and compelling user experiences across all products and services you work on
• Constructing prototypes and writing design specifications
• Designing and facilitating usability tests and other assessment activities
• Presenting to both colleagues and clients, as required

What we’re seeking:

• Bachelor’s degree with 4–5 years of industry experience
• Expertise in key tenets of engaging interface design and methods
• Proficiency in designing UI architecture and creating wireframes that address interactions, behaviors and page layout
• The ability to bring simplicity and usability to complicated data interactions and flows
• Experience with Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Visio, Axure and similar tools is required
• The ability to create functional prototypes would be an asset
• Experience with Responsive Web Design (RWD) principles and practices would be an asset
• An understanding of current front-end web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, etc. would be an asset
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well as part of a team
• The ability to effectively express ideas and opinions in a constructive and productive manner, both verbally and in writing
• Experience with coaching and leading a team of UX Designers to help them contribute effectively as well as grow in their professional capacity
• A positive and optimistic attitude towards the role, confidence to tackle tough design challenges and a desire to exceed client expectations

About Quarry

Quarry is the buyer experience agency for savvy marketers who want to transform their brands. Our clients span a broad range of industries and audiences, with one element in common: all market highly engineered goods and services across a complex buying journey.

Interested applicants, please send an email to Shelley Facey, Director of People (careers@quarry.com) with your resume and cover letter to let us know why you’re the perfect fit for this role.