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Posted: August 28th, 2018 | Author: Mark Connolly | Filed under: Jobs | Tags: job | No Comments »
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
Posted: August 1st, 2018 | Author: Adam Euerby | Filed under: Jobs | Tags: job | No Comments »
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!
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P: 647.495.7921
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Posted: July 17th, 2018 | Author: Adam Euerby | Filed under: Jobs | Tags: job | No Comments »
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.
Posted: June 21st, 2018 | Author: Adam Euerby | Filed under: Jobs | Tags: job | No Comments »
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.
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Apply!
Apply through the ConsenSys website.
Posted: April 17th, 2018 | Author: Mark Connolly | Filed under: Jobs | Tags: job | No Comments »
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.
Posted: March 25th, 2018 | Author: Mark Connolly | Filed under: Jobs | Tags: job | No Comments »
Summary
We’re a team of Product Designers and User Experience Researchers with a diverse set of skills and some serious UX chops. We create experiences for people who learn and teach in K-12 schools, higher education, and business.
We’re looking for someone who’s familiar with the broad UX tools and activities with particular strength in visual design
What we offer
- A design team like no other
- A place for you to learn and grow as a designer and a person.
- Projects that will make you feel good again about working in tech.
- A chance to change the way the world learns.
We also offer a strong team environment and a strong commitment to work/life balance. Your quality of life matters.
What we’re after
Passion – We want to see your passion for people, for design, and for working collaboratively, both with other talented designers and user researchers and with members of cross-functional teams.
Portfolio – You don’t need to have launched products that have changed the world. But, you’ll need to show us your designs and artifacts and talk to us about the business and user problems you were trying to solve and how you approached your work.
Point of view – We want to hear what you have to say. We’re looking for designers who can provide rationales for 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.
Collaboration – You’re a team player, a self-starter who wants to collaborate with others. You understand that everyone can be a leader. You’re comfortable collaborating with other disciplines and with facilitating sessions with colleagues and with users.
Experience – You have real experience – about 2+ years’ worth. You should be able to share examples of artifacts you created and activities you facilitated, how they had an impact, and what you learned. Points for experience in an agile environment and for knowledge of Lean UX, Design Sprints (Google Ventures version of Design Thinking process) & Story Mapping. Bonus points for experience designing and facilitating user research.
About D2L…
Learn more about us, check out D2L.com & Brightspace.com or find us on Instagram & Twitter – because this role description is way too long already…
Posted: March 25th, 2018 | Author: Mark Connolly | Filed under: Jobs | Tags: job | No Comments »
Miovision’s mission is to provide the foundation for tomorrow’s smart cities by transforming the way traffic networks are managed today. Backed by the world’s most advanced traffic AI, Miovision’s innovations in traffic signal planning and operations have made it possible for cities to improve the transportation experience for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians since 2005. With offices in Kitchener, Canada and Cologne, Germany, Miovision serves over 17,000 municipalities worldwide. For more information, visit www.miovision.com
Miovision is looking for a Intermediate/Senior UX Designer to work alongside a team of talented engineers solving complex problems in the traffic and transportation space. The ideal candidate should be able to understand and align customer and business goals, to create highly engaging customer experiences. You are someone who is killer in Interaction Design, strong in Visual Design and Prototyping, capable in User Research and Information Architecture.
Why your work will matter:
Miovision’s mission is built around helping cities use data to solve big and impactful problems. Our hardware helps cities to connect to their infrastructure and sensors, and unlock the data trapped inside. Our software conveys the insights that enable cities to make critical decisions that ensure a safe, efficient, and productive city. As a UX/UI designer, you’ll ensure that city engineers and decision makers can understand the data they’re looking at and make it actionable. How does a city planner sort through mountains of data to understand what the most dangerous street crossings are? How does a non-technical city executive look at a dashboard to understand what parts of her city have the largest mobility problems and need more investment? We see great and thoughtful design as one of the essential pieces to solving these sort of challenges, and we’re looking for designers who are passionate about creating a massive impact in how cities operate.
Things we’d like you to do:
Delivery
- You develop the process/approach for tackling a design problem, using known methods, and can anticipate future design implications.
- You are confident in applying best practices to common design problems.
- Working with PMs, you lead the solution of specific customer problems, while connecting to the broader product vision.
Communication
- Communicates design rationale to PMs and Devs
Validates designs with key stakeholders / users.
- Prepares and delivers validated mockups for the product development team.
Leadership
- Clarifies success metrics with PMs in order to tie design efforts toward delivering business value.
- Facilitate/lead design exploration activities (eg. design sprints).
- Be a champion for design thinking and processes across the company.
Things we’d like you to have:
- You have at least 5 years’ experience in user experience(UX) design with some focus on complex products.
- You have a strong understanding of the fundamental visual and interactive design disciplines and principles.
- You’re someone who is killer in Interaction Design, strong in Visual Design and Prototyping, capable in User Research and Information Architecture.
- You’re able to quickly iterate through design concepts by sketching, wireframing, and low-fidelity prototypes.
- You’re able to deliver production-ready/customer facing high-fidelity mockups with your favourite tools (eg. Sketch, InVision, Adobe, etc.)
- You have a portfolio of works demonstrating the successful delivery of outstanding interface design solutions.
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- You have a strong understanding with an iterative design process, and able to prioritize tasks and meet tight-deadlines with minimal supervision.
- You have experience presenting your work to executives and defending it when necessary.
What Success in Your First 90 Days looks like:
First 15 days
- Meet with PMs of each product line to get an understanding of the product roadmaps and vision for Miovision product areas.
- Meet with Miovision’s brand leaders to understand brand considerations inside of our products.
- Get a general understanding of target users and overall product/market strategy.
- Conduct 1-on-1s with PMs and dev team leads to understand their goals and challenges and opportunities to improve on design involvement.
- Take inventory of design assets across various tools (eg. Sketch, Moqups, InVision) and make recommendations on design asset and prototype version management.
First 30 days
- Conduct a design review of existing products and identify key gaps in usability, information architecture, consistency and opportunities for improvement.
- Get your feet wet with a specific customer problem / product area and assist in the research and design of a solution.
- You work with PM, Customer Success, and Product Marketing to understand and support new feature/product introduction
First 90 days
- You have an intimate understanding of product goals, and user needs & motivations.
- You work closely with PMs and development team to assist in research, prototyping new solutions for discovery, and getting user feedback.
- You assist in the development of product requirements with supporting mockups / prototypes.
- You understand and consider the brand and vision for Miovision as you apply that to your design deliverables.
- Your designs are reaching customers in production, and you are providing feedback and acceptance throughout the development process.
To Apply:
Visit miovison.com/careers/and attach your resume and portfolio to your application.
Posted: March 13th, 2018 | Author: Mark Connolly | Filed under: Jobs | Tags: job | No Comments »
Zenreach was created to solve one of the most important problems in the modern economy—the majority of our time is being spent online, yet over 90% of purchasing still happens offline — and there is no link between the two systems. Brick-and-mortar merchants are working decades behind their online counterparts without essential data and tools. We created Zenreach to give them the same level of technology and transparency that anyone operating online has come to expect.
Position Summary
Greenfield Labs, the Zenreach R&D lab in Kitchener, Ontario, is seeking a highly-motivated Senior-Staff level UI/UX designer to help create and maintain Zenreach’s core product. An ideal candidate has the ability think about experiences holistically which means you have a good balance between technical knowledge, research abilities, problem-solving skills, and awesome visual design/interaction skills.
Zenreach is backed by leading investors with decades of experience in building enterprise hardware and software. We were also featured as one of the top breakout startups of 2017! Interested in closing the loop between the online and offline worlds? Join us!
What you’d be doing
You’ll join a small but mighty design team and have the opportunity to shape the design function as we continue scaling the business. You’ll have the responsibility of partaking and leading a full cycle design process, from research and developing initial wireframes/flows to creating magnificent visual designs, all while maintaining a user-centered design mindset. You’ll be spending a great amount of time with your good friends Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop, and the prototyping tools of your choice. But you’ll also be working hand-in-hand with the engineering, product, and other teams not affiliated within the EPD organization. You’ll also create, facilitate, and manage component and pattern libraries for our web and mobile experiences ensuring a holistic experience regardless of device type. You’ll provide guidance on design strategy and structure work to effectively solve design challenges. You’ll also be play a key role in mentoring junior staff, and providing oversight of their day-to-day execution work.
About You…
- 5+ years of relevant b2b experience. From discovery and ideation to documentation and implementation support.
- An inspiring online portfolio demonstrating strong and agile/Lean UX/Visual skills.
- You’re obsessed with the details and have the ability to think about features holistically.
- You have the ability to research, share, and apply new trends in design, usage, and technology.
- You’re a person that works openly, is able to continuously share progress, and solicits feedback from other verticals outside of product and design
- You’re extremely fluent in working with Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and various prototyping tools
- You’re self motivated with a positive attitude and always consistently looking for ways to improve our product
- In addition to your design-thinking skills, you also have great soft skills and want to help cultivate our company culture
- You’re always hungry for more, embraces challenges, and always is open to new ways of thinking
Perks & Benefits
- Excellent and comprehensive health plans
- Flexible Vacation Policy
- Fully stocked kitchen with healthy (and unhealthy) snacks and beverages
- Catered lunches
- Enhanced Paternity/Maternity Programs
- Organized volunteer events to give back to our community
- Off-sites, events and happy hours
Not ready to apply, or have some questions first? Feel free to email our Recruiter, Gary Good, directly at gary@zenreach.com.
If you’re interested in this role, please apply on our website here.
Zenreach is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law.
Posted: February 8th, 2018 | Author: Mark Connolly | Filed under: Jobs | Tags: job | No Comments »
At Carnegie Technologies, we are a strong technical team that builds communications products for the multitude of networks available today. Whether that’s combining LTE and Wi-Fi together for better-quality VoIP calls that aren’t disrupted when you switch networks, aggregating networks together for smoother video streaming, giving your smartphone the ability to place calls over satellite from anywhere on the planet, or constructing end-to-end IoT systems that take advantage of the latest wireless protocols, we’re always looking for ways to get the best experience at the lowest operational cost.
We come from many different backgrounds and levels of expertise – but to all of us, craft and functionality are equally important. We constantly learn and hone our skills and incorporate those experiences into every line of code. We don’t ship “fast” solutions – we ship the right ones for our customers. We’re also leaders that create quiet time to solve hard problems and the space to focus on the best result.
Our engineering team is spread across our offices in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada; Austin, Texas; and Romsey, UK. You’ll have the opportunity to work with our super talented team of people, from experts in networking, machine learning, and applications to some of the pioneers of Wi-Fi itself. You might even get your name on a patent!
UX at Carnegie
The UX Lead will be responsible for tackling the UX challenges across all facets of our product portfolio, like those we’ve worked on in the past year:
- Visualizing a wide variety of Internet-of-Things devices on mobile phones, tablets, and laptops
- Eliciting user preferences on cost versus performance when aggregating bandwidth
- Guiding users through pointing a satellite antenna towards the closest satellite
- Distilling the information from dozens of IoT devices into simple, actionable alerts
- Explaining the difference between single-flow and multi-flow bandwidth aggregation, visually
- Designing the “out of the box” experiences for new sensors
- Communicating success and errors using minimal LEDs on hardware devices
- Preventing activation of satellite emergency services by accident, but not introducing delay in a real emergency
- Visualizing sensor locations in urban, rural, and indoor environments using different types of maps
- Designing mobile web apps for multiple screens devices that don’t feel “lowest common denominator”
- Testing applications with outdoor workers, in rural locations, in the middle of summer. In Texas.
The Role
The UX lead will be responsible for interaction design and user testing across our product lines.
- You’ll be a player, and a coach – actively designing the user experience of our products, and leading others to achieve the best result
- When you are designing, you’ll be designing user interfaces, developing pattern libraries, eliciting requirements from our product teams, writing personas and user stories, troubleshooting existing designs, and doing hallway usability tests
- When you are leading, you’ll be doing design reviews, setting internal best practices, locating great UX teams to work with, building our internal team, and coordinating UX activities
- Your early wireframes will be quick sketches on paper, on a whiteboard, or with other tools – to elicit ideas or to explore a concept
- You’ll do later designs in HTML – to capture interactive elements of the design, and hand them off for implementation to our development teams
- You’ll initially be the only UX professional at Carnegie – but lead a global set of UX teams working on specific products and industry verticals
- You’ll be working across all our products – network convergence, IoT, and Satellite (and more to come)
- You’ll be pushed by your colleagues to deliver quality products in a reasonable timeframe – and trusted to seek input from then take the best action
About You
- You have a wide knowledge of user experience/human factors/interaction design/user interfaces – through a related degree or diploma, or practical experience
- You are self-motivated and independent, and excel at taking high-level guidance and just getting things done
- You have very strong verbal and written communications skills
- You are comfortable programming in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – enough to be dangerous, though you won’t need to work on production code
- You are comfortable working with visual design tools, whether Photoshop, Illustrator, or others – though you’ll work with our marketing team on the final look and feel
- You are experienced with writing and maintaining personas, scenarios, user story maps, and other artifacts that place the design in context
- You have deep knowledge of designing for mobile, including multi-screen and multi-device limitations
- You have experience working in a cross-functional role, bringing together engineering and product to make applications that delight users
- You are comfortable using version control (we use Git), video conferencing, Slack, and running commands on the command line
- You have some experience leading a UX team and shipping products
- You want to work in a small, fast-moving team with lots of responsibility (and few roadblocks to getting things done)
- You want to understand how the Internet works at a deep level, and why rebooting your router fixes it when it breaks
Work Location
You’ll be working out of our office in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada, with occasional travel to our office in Austin, Texas
Apply Now
Send your resume and a few examples of your work to dev-jobs@carnegietechnologies.com
Posted: December 14th, 2017 | Author: Adam Euerby | Filed under: Jobs | Tags: job | No Comments »
If you’re interested, share your resume and portfolio with Adam Euerby, Sr Product Designer, at the Lab: aeuerby@fairventures.ca
User Experience Designer
Are you a UX designer early in your career looking for experience in a number of industries and projects? Interested the early inception stages of the product lifecycle? At FairVentures Lab, we’re looking for a UX Designer to help us work with Fairfax companies spanning insurance, restaurants, and retail industries to explore new markets and create innovative digital products and services. In the position, you’ll help with doing UX research to explore market and customer opportunities, rapid prototyping for mobile and other digital channels, and visual design for clear and realistic presentation of design concepts to customers and stakeholders. You would also contribute to the FairVentures Innovation Lab research agenda, exploring new digital experience channels and techniques including VR, AR, voice, chatbot, using applications of data analytics, behavioural economics, game design, and persuasive design.
FairVentures Innovation Lab is the innovation initiative of Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. We’re a diverse and experienced team of passionate technologists in the areas of product, design, data, startup investment, and software development. We research, develop, partner and invest in innovative solutions to support the Fairfax family of companies. We’re centrally located in Downtown Kitchener in one of the largest corporate innovation spaces of the Communitech Hub. The beautifully retrofitted heritage tannery building has full kitchens with espresso machines, a fitness center, an indoor basketball court, games room, private showers, and a patio with BBQs; all in proximity to the buzz of over 100 start-ups within the local incubation programs.
Come join us in this exciting opportunity to help shape the future of world-class Canadian company operating on the global stage. For more information on Fairfax Financial Holdings please visit www.fairfax.ca
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Quick learners with a creative and analytical mindset.
- Systems thinkers who are always looking for new ways to frame problems and design solutions.
- Motivated team players who are capable of owning and driving assignments.
- Desire to explore new technologies, methodologies, and tools.
- Entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to explore the unknown.
RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:
Interaction Design
- Design prototypes for web, mobile, chatbot, data visualization, and other digital applications based on input from user research, design sprints, and other requirements sources.
- Create mockups, workflows, conceptual models, and other design documentation to communicate design concepts to the Lab team and Fairfax stakeholders.
- Elicit feedback on design concepts to drive iteration and refinement of design concepts.
User Research and User Testing
- Recruit participants from sources such as Fairfax companies, local sources, and agencies.
- Plan research activities including objectives, research questions, hypotheses, methods, interview scripts, and surveys questions.
- Coordinate interviews such as participant scheduling; remote calling; prototype set-up and instructions; notetaking; and other tasks required of those attending the interview.
- Analyze data (notes, photos, videos, etc.) for patterns to develop user personas, context scenarios, and other user and context models.
- Communicate findings and implications from user research with Lab team and Fairfax stakeholders.
Visual Design
- Clear and realistic presentation of design concepts to customers and stakeholders.
- Design with a consistent look and feel that conveys a believable brand concept.
Research and Lab Support
- Create visuals such as diagrams, infographics, logos, presentation slides to support the Lab’s outreach and communications to Fairfax companies.
- Research in UX issues of emerging technology (ex. AI, voice UI, chatbots, AR, VR, Game-based design, advanced web technologies).
- General UX support (FV website, presentation visuals, newsletter contributions, etc.).
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, & OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
- Portfolio of work that demonstrates your approach to solving user experience design problems.
- Product design experience preferably within a software, hardware, and/or start-up environment.
- Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Balsamiq, Axure, Framer, Principle, etc.
- Experience with responsive web and mobile design.
- Experience conducting primary research including user research interviews and user testing.
- Comfortable facilitating or supporting the facilitation of design-related workshops.
- Excellent visual communication skills including whiteboard sketching, presentations slides, diagrams, etc.
- Excellent communication skills (spoken and written).
- Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office and Google Products.
- Familiarity with software development processes, Agile and Lean methodologies is an asset.
- Experience working a UX designer on an agile development team.
- Front-end development experience not required, but an asset.