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Job Title: Sr. User Experience Designer
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid 3 days onsite / 2 days remote)
Duration: 04+ Months (Possible Extension)

Job Description:
Evaluation Criteria
User Experience Design 40%

• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• Ability to iterate your designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in participating in complex projects (products) of different sizes, ensuring alignment to plans, and best practices, and incorporating user-centered design processes and agile (scrum) methodologies.
• Degree or diploma in graphic design; degree or certification in usability, human-computer interaction, and technical writing a plus
• Experience in facilitating User Research and Usability testing. Accessibility compliance testing is a plus.
• Experience in facilitating User Research and Usability testing activities to produce such outputs as:
• User Interview Topic Maps
• User Interview Scripts
• User Interview Synthesis (collection, aggregation and analysis) of written observations recorded during each interview
• User Research Findings Report

• Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client projects (products) are progressing according to schedule
• Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies
• Ability to deliver on a (project) product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) by participating in Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies

• Expertise in UX software such as JustInMind, InVision, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, Axure, Figma, and Zeplin. HTML5, CSS3, and JS skills (React, Angular, NodeJS), are a plus.

• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

• Expertise in UX software such as JustInMind, InVision, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, Axure, Figma, and Zeplin. HTML5, CSS3, and JS skills (React, Angular, NodeJS), are a plus.
• Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.