UX Designer - Senior (Java)

Innosystech Inc; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Innosystech Inc in Toronto is seeking a senior UX Designer (Java) to lead the design of complex digital services from concept to production. You will create user-centered interfaces for a range of projects and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality experiences.

The role emphasizes hands-on design delivery, rapid iteration, and strong communication to stakeholders, with an onsite work model in Toronto.

Qualifications

• Experience designing user-centric digital products with measurable UX improvements.

Responsibilities

• Create effective, user-friendly interfaces.

Skills

UX design

User research

Figma

XDstudio

HTML/CSS/JS

Communication

Agile

Prototyping

Visual design

Tools

Figma

XDstudio

HTML/CSS/JS

Job description

Job Title: UX Designer - Senior (Java)

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Work Model: Onsite

Duration: 6 months

Extension: 1 Time

Must Haves

• Design experience and expertise in developing and executing strategies that improve overall user interactions with digital, user-centric products and services, resulting in measurable enhancements and positive user feedback
• The ability to lead the design of complex digital services from concept to production and the ability to draw on your expertise to develop and maintain a high bar for user experience standards and performance measures
• Demonstrated experience creating design deliverables such as mood boards, collaboration boards, empathy maps, user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and interactive prototypes
• Experience with Figma, XDstudio is a must
• Experience coding in HTML, CSS and JavaScript is an asset
• Ability to communicate designs in clear and understandable manner, present recommendations and provide advice to the stakeholders

Description / Responsibilities / Skills

Responsibilities

• Create effective, user friendly and visually appealing interfaces.
• Design user interfaces for various projects such as digital displays, publications, media, and other creative materials as required.
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate the designs.
• Conceive and conduct user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes

General Skills

• Experience in designing online programs with emphasis in the emotional aspects of human experience
• Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions
• Experience making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
• Experience gathering user feedback to configure existing interfaces
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience

Experience & Skill Set Requirements

User Experience / Product Design (40%)

• Demonstrated experience creating deliverables such as design blueprints, information architecture, presentations and reports.
• A solid understanding of generative and evaluative user research methods and how user research can be incorporated continuously in the digital product lifecycle
• Hands-on experience creating user research plans, recruiting participants, facilitating user research, analyzing findings and delivering insights
• Synthesize research findings into insightful and concise user research documents, such as user journey maps, personas, service blueprints, and affinity maps.
• Experience researching and applying industry best practices to support your design deliverables
• The ability to incorporate web analytics, visitor feedback, performance metrics and other data to inform design decisions
• Practice providing rationale for design decisions in group settings with multiple stakeholders

Communications (20%)

• Ability to collaborate with technical experts and business subject matter experts to elicit key information relevant to user experience and service design
• Strong facilitation skills leading design discussions and negotiations

Agile Product Development (20%)

• Experience working in an agile product teams
• Demonstrated willingness to iterate work output based on feedback
• Experience collaborating and sharing design tasks with multiple designers on complex product deliveries

Design Portfolio (20%)

• Candidate to include the link to their portfolio of work