Lead UX Designer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Develop user flows, diagrams, wireframes, and designs that align with product requirements and design standards.

• Produce high-fidelity visual designs and prototypes that showcase user flows.

• Provide design specifications and supporting materials to the development teams.

• Engage in design reviews and gather feedback from fellow designers and stakeholders.

• Lead collaborative workshops that foster innovation.

• Advocate for the Product Triad and motivate impactful collaboration.

• Refine application features to enhance usability and influence key metrics.

• Assist in planning and estimating design tasks, coordinating workflows, and setting expectations.

• Conduct product research, usability studies, discovery interviews, and competitive analysis.

• Investigate domains, customer needs, technologies, and competing products and services.

• Contribute to and uphold design pattern libraries.

• Mentor and support other members of the design team.

• Collaborate with designers, product stakeholders, engineering, and international cross-functional teams.

• Maintain implementation quality while enhancing design processes, systems, and overall culture.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of professional experience in UX design, UI design, product design, and/or web development.

• Self-motivated individual with exceptional time management skills, capable of managing multiple projects with changing priorities.

• A portfolio that showcases conceptualization and visual communication abilities; recommended process and design methodologies.

• Solid understanding of user-centered design processes and methodologies, particularly for enterprise software, PaaS, and on-premises applications.

• Expertise in design principles, including grid systems, typography, and color theory.

• High attention to detail and consistency in design outputs.

• Background in coordinating and executing qualitative and quantitative research, usability studies, discovery interviews, and analyzing product analytics data.

• Proven experience collaborating with cross-functional, international teams.

• Demonstrable systems-thinking abilities.

• Proficient in Figma, Figma Make, Zeplin, and other relevant AI-assisted design and prototyping tools.

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field is required, or equivalent experience.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English are essential.

• Experience with cloud, on-premises, and hybrid data platforms or similar technologies.

• Preferred/additional: curiosity and experimentation with AI in design.

• Preferred/additional: working knowledge of HTML, CSS, front-end JavaScript frameworks, and mobile-centric design approaches.

• Preferred/additional: experience in designing for data streaming, data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning, and AI applications.

🏝️ Benefits

• All employees are provided with a comprehensive benefits package.

• Eligibility for a corporate incentive plan for non-sales positions.