Product Designer

Jarvis Consulting Group; Ontario; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech firm in Canada seeks a Product Designer to enhance digital experiences for independent Portfolio Managers. The role involves user research, prototyping, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to create impactful design solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience designing web-based software applications.
• Experience in agile/lean environments with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to product design from user research to validation.
• Create hi-fidelity prototypes and manage accessibility concerns.

Skills

Design Thinking

Human-Centered Design

Communication

Prototyping

Tools

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Job description

Our client is Canada’s market leader in custody, trade execution and brokerage solutions to independent Portfolio Managers, Investment Dealers and Investment Fund Managers. With over 30 years of continuous service and a team of more than 200 professionals, we serve 400 independent firms with over $200 billion in Assets under Administration.

The Product Team is deeply committed to helping our member free up time and grow through intuitive, flexible, and powerful digital experiences that seamlessly support their day-to-day operations. We are on a mission to be our market’s leading FinTech partner and you will be part of the team that gets us there.

Product designers on the team have : a curiosity and drive to understand the user expectations for each persona, an ability to communicate them clearly to the team, in order to create product experiences that are useful and usable. The ideal candidate is interested in and willing to learn about wealth management and the craft of designing world class products.

You Will :

• Contribute to the full spectrum of product design responsibilities, from user research to user validation.
• Break down abstract needs and research into clear and feasible user interface assets for the engineering team.
• Balance business & user impact with development effort to make economic design decisions.
• Work within the design team to expand UX and UI design patterns.
• Create hi-fidelity prototypes of components and interactions.
• Help manage product wide concerns such as accessibility, white labeling / theming and atomic design.
• Work with the platform team to develop components and tools to be used across the platform.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience designing web-based software applications; B2B experience is an asset.
• Experience working with cross-functional product, design and engineering teams in agile / lean environments.
• Expertise in design thinking and human-centered design methodologies.
• Experience with visual and interaction design of software products.
• Proficient with design specification of interactions and design attributes like spacing, color and typography.
• Prototyping and great interaction design instincts, either with graphic tools or in working HTML / CSS / JS.
• Great written and spoken communication skills.
• Self-starting on projects and working from a position of ambiguity is very beneficial.
• Familiarity with accessibility guidelines and techniques for making web-based software accessible is an asset.