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Our client is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join their Response Management team. This agile team’s mission is to make it easy for the company’s clients to complete high-quality responses. The Response Management team works on features such as importing/exporting projects, reporting, and MS Excel add-in, just to name a few. This is an opportunity to join a highly collaborative and supportive design team where you can leverage your 3+ years of practice experience to help them create an industry-leading B2B software.
Responsibilities
- Be deeply involved in all aspects of product development and delivery, from early-stage designs through to hands-on testing and implementation.
- Study and solve complex user problems by exploring a wide breadth of ideas and converging on solutions using a strategic blend of user research, data, peer feedback, and professional intuition.
- Design and confidently conduct UX research using a thoughtful blend of generative and evaluative mixed methods.
- Leverage user data from digital experience analytic tools to inform your designs.
- Track and own the performance of your designs post-launch and optimize.
- Lead design discussions with your Agile team, design peers, other Loopers, and even customers to effectively solve user problems with solutions that are innovative, effective, and technically feasible.
- Bring experience mentoring and coaching designers in design best practices
- Advocate for design thinking throughout the entire organization, shaping and living our design culture
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in a product design role on a product design team working across the entire product development lifecycle and successfully shipping products.
- Strong knowledge of the end-to-end design process: you can develop and leverage UX research, user flow diagrams, journey mapping, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, and high-fidelity visuals to achieve human-centred design solutions.
- Highly proficient in interaction design: you have a passion coupled with extensive experience in tackling complex design problems.
- Strong UI design abilities: you have a solid grasp of how to apply concepts of space, layout, visual hierarchy and affordance to digital user interfaces.
- Holistic thinking; you think in systems and can anticipate the impacts of any one solution upon the entire platform and the holistic user experience.
- Persuasive communication: you can clearly express complex concepts and confidently share the ‘why’ behind your design decisions.
- Facilitation skills to ensure everyone on your team understands the full context of a problem, opportunity, or solution with a strong shared understanding.
- Curious, growth mindset: you humbly see critical feedback as a gift.
Location
- Remote, Canada