Product Designer

Ascendion; Canada; Remote; CAD 85,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion is seeking a Product Designer to join the Answer Card Framework Team. The role focuses on enhancing user experiences through intuitive design, requiring expertise in design systems and collaboration with engineering teams. Ideal candidates should possess strong skills in Figma and a deep understanding of user interface patterns.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience with Design System Experience.
• 5+ years experience in collaboration with engineers.
• 5+ years experience with Figma.

Responsibilities

• Create high quality wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver user experiences.
• Perform usability tests with end users and stakeholders.

Skills

Design System Experience

Collaboration with Engineers

Documentation & Communication

Figma

Attention to Detail

Curiosity and Proactiveness

Job description

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Base pay range

$85,000.00/yr - $98,000.00/yr

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About Ascendion :

Ascendion is a full service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently engineer the next.

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and handsome experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone the their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:

Position: Product Designer

Location: Remote (Canada)

Summary:

This role is for the Answer Card Framework Team (ACF) in Microsoft, with a core focus centered on user experience and core building blocks, that could span multiple form-factors, devices and ecosystems. You will help to contribute to the execution of our Human Interface Guidelines (its documentation, maintenance and scaling for a very large base of existing and potential users), and the design of framework components of the search results page, all while driving design coherence of the product. You’ll be joining a set of designers, with whom you can partner, learn from, and contribute towards. You will be an integral part of the engineering team and will have the opportunity to partner closely with Program Managers and the Developers that are directly involved in creating and evolving user experiences.

An ideal candidate would have experience with simplifying complex user scenarios, and good knowledge in UI Patterns, Frameworks and scaling Design Systems. You are forward-thinking, passionate about improving our users experience, on top of current UX trends, and excited about exploring new possibilities and opportunities. You can quickly bring new ideas to life from low fidelity sketching to clickable prototypes. You can take big picture ideas and help translate them to ownable concepts with your design and storytelling skills. Most importantly, you love pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, crafting experiences that fulfill direct user need while also adding a sense of delight.

• Create high quality wireframes, mockups, and prototypes, in a timely and iterative environment.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams throughout all stages of design process to deliver useful and efficient end-to-end user experiences.
• Scope and prioritize work across multiple projects and tasks.
• Perform usability tests, working with end users and stakeholders to ensure problems and needs
• Present work to teams

Top 4 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

• Minimum 5+ years experience with Design System Experience ( building, maintaining, or scaling a design system, including understanding component libraries, design tokens, and accessibility standards)
• Minimum 5+ years experience with Collaboration with Engineers (candidate should be
• comfortable working with front-end developers to implement or refine components and have knowledge of how design translates into code)
• Minimum 5+ years experience with Documentation & Communication ( clearly document guidelines, usage patterns, and provide patterns to partner design teams, ensuring the documentation is easy to understand )
• Minimum 5+ years experience with Figma ( Highly skilled in using Figma, including Auto Layout, Variants, Components, Tokens, and Libraries ) and experience setting up scalable Figma libraries that are easy for other designers to use.
• Collaboration: The candidate should be collaborative and able to work effectively with other team members, including engineers and designers.
• Detail-oriented: The candidate must pay attention to detail, ensuring that all aspects of the design system are meticulously documented and implemented.
• Communication: The candidate should have strong communication skills to document guidelines clearly and provide patterns to partner design teams.
• Patience and Openness to Feedback: The candidate should be patient and open to receiving and incorporating feedback.
• Curiosity and Proactiveness: The candidate should be curious and proactive in finding areas of inconsistency or inefficiency and suggesting solutions.
• Demonstrated knowledge in all things UX, including accessibility and systems.
• Great eye for visual design and layout. Understanding of multiple modality design patterns and various form-factors.
• Excellent understanding of UX methodologies and implementation of design patterns.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills and an attention to detail.
• Ability to quickly learn modern design tools such as Figma.
• Systems Thinking; Thinks in terms of reusability and modularity, not just one-off screens or components. Anticipates edge cases and how changes in one component affect the broader system.
• Advocacy & Enablement; Can evangelize and educate others about the design system. Experience running audits, onboarding designers to the system, or conducting trainings.
• Curious and proactive — finds areas of inconsistency or inefficiency and suggests solutions.

Salary Range: $85,000 to 98,000 Annually Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [0910 days/hours of paid time off]

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

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Job function

• Job function

  Art/Creative

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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