Job Title: UI/UX DesignerJob ID: KB91528446Location: Toronto, ON – HybridContract Duration: Up to Dec. 31, 2022Overview:We are seeking a UX/UI Designer to drive creative direction in an agile development environment together with the Delivery & Product Teams for our investment industry client's customer-facing website. You will be involved in every aspect of the design process, from discovery and ideation, to wireframing, prototyping, designing, user testing, and iterating for new features and products. You will be expected to create research driven, compelling, and optimal user experiences as well as bring web products to life with exciting visual designs. You will also participate in evolving the Product design system and mentoring intermediate and junior designers. In addition, while advocating empathy for the user, you should be an analytical thinker What you will be doing:

• Drive the User Experience and Creative design process: rapidly develop information architectures, user flows, wireframes, high fidelity designs, prototypes and specs
• Facilitate UX design workshops between a variety of cross-organizational teams of product owners, engineering and end-users using industry-standard tools and techniques
• Translate business problems and ideas into clear design tasks and communicate these to product owners, engineering and end-users
• Perform usability testing to gather feedback and incorporate them in further product iterations
• Define/refine visual and UX design language and components as part of the design system
• Design in an agile, iterative manner with light documentation, when required
• Keep up to date with best practices and trends in the marketplace and with competitors
• Take personal ownership (going beyond assigned tasks to make projects better, identifies and reports issues, demonstrates strong concern for client and initiatives)
• Work with delivery team to make sure that technical aspects can be achieved, while ensuring that the user experience remains the top priority
• Collaborate with and mentor junior and intermediate UX/UI designers

What you must have:

• Bachelor's Degree/Certificate in HCI, Design, or similar discipline, or the equivalent education and experience
• 5+ years of professional design experience for consumer or enterprise web applications with a strong portfolio of websites that demonstrate visual design principles translated into working production systems
• Exceptional design skills with strong working knowledge in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Suite, Balsamiq or similar tools
• Prior relevant experience as a UX/UI Designer or equivalent is required
• Experience with responsive design for enterprise web applications
• Passionate about amazing product design and an appreciation for elegant user experiences
• Experience or familiarity working with a design system is desirable
• Results-oriented, forward thinking strong team player
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, manage multiple activities with multiple teams in an agile environment

Nice to have:

• Experience working in financial services industry is desirable

*Hourly rate: $50-55/hour For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.comBy applying to TEEMA on any job portal implies you are entering into a business relationship with us and therefore grants TEEMA consent to send you further job updates or industry and company-related information.