Sr. UX Designer

TRSS; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Sr. UX Designer to enhance customer experiences through innovative design. In this role, you will collaborate with a talented team to create user-centered solutions, leveraging your expertise in responsive design and prototyping. Your ability to communicate effectively and advocate for users will be essential in driving product development. Join a company that values diverse perspectives and empowers employees to grow in a flexible work environment. If you're passionate about shaping the future of user experience, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of design experience creating simple solutions for complex challenges.
• Strong portfolio illustrating design process and results.

Responsibilities

• Create journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes for user-centered experiences.
• Collaborate with UX Designers and Content Strategists to develop features.

Skills

User-Centered Design

Responsive Design

Prototyping Tools

Agile Methodology

Communication Skills

Critical Thinking

Problem Solving

Time Management

Education

BA/BS in Graphic Design

Equivalent Industry Training

Tools

Industry-Leading Prototyping Tools

Job description

Sr. UX designer

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading for both content and technology? If yes, we’re looking for you.

Join our team! As a Sr. UX designer you’ll work closely with product managers, content strategists, UI designers, developers, and researchers to create an elegant customer experience. As a creator of bar-raising experiences, you inherently look for ways to remove the difficult and make complex experiences feel easy, intuitive and have a seamless flow that helps our customers feel empowered. You confidently make — and defend decisions while creating user-centered online experiences in an agile environment.

About the Role

As a Sr. UX Designer, you will:

1. Create and build: Rapidly iterate through journey maps, storyboards, user flows, sketches, wireframes, and other design artifacts to effectively communicate interaction and a dynamic content strategy. Have deep experience with responsive UI design methodology and processes (user-centered and iterative design). Create and maintain prototypes for UX research testing with industry-leading tools.
2. Be part of a collaborative team: Work closely with the UX Designers, Content Strategists, and UX Researchers in a collaborative team-oriented environment to create new products, features, and functionality. Advocate for the user’s needs while developing features that align to the needs of the user.
3. Be an Effective Communicator: Share ideas, participate in peer-reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills. You justify and articulate design decisions during design reviews. You lead brainstorming and sketching sessions with product teams.
4. Be Curious & Innovative: Continuously update yourself by learning and leveraging new technologies and best practices within the field of user experience in order to enhance our practices. Turn user research and usability feedback into easy-to-use solutions. Gather, analyze, and synthesize UX needs for complex product and user requirements.

About You

You’re a fit for this role if you have:

1. 5-8 years design experience creating simple solutions for complex challenges
2. Experience in responsive design with case studies in your portfolio
3. Experience in complex application design
4. Experience with industry-leading prototyping tools
5. Strong portfolio of work that illustrates your process, your level of craft, and the results you have driven
6. Familiarity with Agile development
7. Confidence in working with a strong, passionate, fast-paced team environment
8. Strong time-management, multi-tasking, and prioritization skills
9. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
11. BA/BS in graphic design, fine art, visual communications, HCI or related field (or equivalent industry training / experience)
12. Familiarity with: Web standards (W3C and 508) / best practices for interaction design and Accessibility

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world-leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.