Hybrid Interaction/Visual Designer
- Location: Toronto, ON- Hybrid – (4 days onsite)
- Contract Length: 12 Months.
We at Raise are hiring a Hybrid Interaction/Visual Designer for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities
- Be the consistent day-to-day product designer dedicated to a squad that includes a content designer, researcher, and senior design leader who are shared across multiple squads.
- The designer will be relied on for communicating and managing the day-to-day design needs of their dedicated squad (with support and leadership from their Design Lead) and will be a key partner to their Product and Technology teammates.
- Depending on the complexity of the project, the designer will be responsible for leading or supporting the interaction and visual design deliverables of the squad, from early-stage concepting all the way to delivering final ready-for-dev design files
- Participate in Design Research, and in data-led design approaches
- Be accountable for following accessible design requirements and visual brand guidelines, and for ensuring that designs leverage our design system
- Collaborate with the Marketing team to ensure visual design consistency across our users’ journey
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners: product managers, project managers, business analysts, developers and quality assurance teams.
- Participation in Agile ceremonies
- This is an excellent opportunity for an Intermediate designer who is ready to take the step into a senior or lead role, but who will appreciate the more collaborative experience
- A strategic interaction designer with a strong understanding of user interface patterns and behaviours, who knows how to balance those imperatives with business requirements and marketing considerations.
- A strong communicator and presenter, and a natural leader who can facilitate ideation sessions, provide expert advice and guidance to cross-functional teams and stakeholders, and ignites design conversation by inviting and responding to feedback
- A self-starter with solid time management and project managements skills, who is comfortable providing informal project management for the squad
- Familiarity with accessible design requirements
- Familiarity with using and contributing to a Design System
Must have skills
- 5+ years of experience as a designer, with approximately 50% visual design and 50% interaction design, including 2+ years in loyalty, retail, or e-commerce.
- Experience working in Lean UX and with Agile dev teams
- Demonstrated expertise with design, prototyping, and collaboration tools such as Figma, Mural, and design systems
- Demonstrated ability to articulate design strategy, and the rationale and logic behind design decisions
Nice to have skills
- Some education or experience with facilitating or supporting user research, with an understanding of various research methods and how/when they are applied
- Experience creating user journeys, wireframes, information architecture, and visual brand design
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Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.
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