Digital Product Designer

We are looking for a Digital Product Designer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Digital Product Designer
Term: 6 months (with extension) – 37.5 hours/Week
Location: Toronto – Hybrid (3 days on-site)
Job ID number: C1229

Brief Description of Duties:

• Collaborate closely within a cross-functional squad of designers, a product owner, and developers
• Work with a team to deliver exceptional features for our clients and advisors – they will see features through from discovery to release
• Partner with other designers and our product & technology peers to apply systematic thinking in their designs

We’re looking for a user experience designer with a product mindset.  Collaborative, humble, open, critical thinkers, curious, data-driven.

More specifically:

• Collaborative: The ability and openness to collaborate with designers as well as our partners in product and technology.
• Thrives in Agile environments: We work in an Agile framework where speed and efficiency are key to our success.
• Product mindset: Keen understanding of our product goals and technology constraints when making design decisions
• Integrative thinker: focuses on of how their work impacts other features and our products as a whole and looks for opportunities for scale

Must Have Skills: 

• Strong communication, collaboration and influence skills
• Has a Product Mindset (ie. Considers how business objectives are met through their design decisions)
• Has worked in an Agile setting and a proven track record of working closely with product owners and developers
• Comfortable ‘working in the abstract’ before moving into screen designs; ie. Deep experience in ux architecture concepts like establishing frameworks, creating flow diagrams, and defining interaction models.
• Proficient in Figma

Nice to Have Skills: 

• Experience using data/analytics to make and iterate on design decisions
• Understands front-end development and its constraints
• Experience building platforms or reusable components

Soft Skills: 

Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to collaborate with other designers and cross-functional team members, ability to manage stakeholders and build relationships. Experience in facilitating workshops is a nice to have.