• Job Description

  Req#: 24-15568

  Job Title: UX Designer
  Location: Remote
  Duration: Contract - 1 year
  
  Project Overview:

  • GTT Canada has a customer that is launching a systems transformation and technology stack modernization initiative over the next 12+ months.
  • As such, they are building a technology team to deliver this project that will include 4 full stack developers, 2 product analysts, a data developer, ux designer, and a scrum master.
  • The technology modernization program is underpinned with HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Angular, MS Power BI, SQL Server and Python in an agile environment.
  • The systems that are being modernized support financial loans, leasing, financing and business advisory services.

  
  Position Overview:

  • As a UX Designer, you will be responsible for designing user-centered products and services that address the full spectrum of users' touchpoints, motivations, and needs.
  • Your contributions will directly impact the user experience for both web and mobile applications.

  Your responsibilities will include:

  • User-Centered Design: Design intuitive, engaging, and accessible products and services by understanding user motivations, behaviors, and needs, addressing the entire user journey.
  • UX Support in Design Sprints: Provide support during design sprints by delivering low to mid-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, and solutions tailored to project needs and timelines.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders, including product managers and developers, to ensure seamless implementation of designs, meeting both user and business needs, and minimizing iteration cycles.
  • UI Design: Create consistent, well-crafted, and user-friendly UI designs for both web and mobile platforms that align with business objectives and user needs.
  • Design Artifacts: Produce detailed wireframes, prototypes, and other design deliverables that represent current and ideal user experiences for both customer and employee-facing interfaces.
  • Accessibility Compliance: Ensure designs adhere to digital accessibility standards, conduct quality assurance (QA) testing, and participate in company-wide accessibility audits to ensure compliance.
  • User Research: Plan and lead user research initiatives (usability testing, interviews, surveys), analyze findings, and integrate insights into actionable design recommendations that improve user experiences.

  Required Experience

  • 8+ years of UX/UI Design Experience: Significant experience designing for both web and mobile platforms, with a robust portfolio demonstrating:
    • Data entry interface designs for web and mobile applications.
    • Clear communication of design decisions and rationale to product stakeholders in both written and verbal formats.
  • Proficiency in Figma: Advanced skills in prototyping, collaborative workflows, and utilizing Figma for design.
  • Developer Collaboration: Proven experience working closely with developers to ensure designs are implemented effectively and efficiently, including providing rapid design solutions during sprints.

  Preferred Skills

  • Enterprise-Level Product Design: Experience designing complex, enterprise-level products, especially within the financial sector.
  • Design Systems: Familiarity with contributing to or managing a design system to maintain consistency across multiple applications.
  • Accessibility Expertise: In-depth understanding of designing accessible interfaces, conducting accessibility audits, and ensuring designs meet WCAG standards.
  • User Research: Strong ability to plan and conduct user research (usability testing, interviews, surveys), analyze results, and implement actionable insights to improve product design.
  • Agricultural Software Experience: Familiarity with Canadian agriculture or experience designing for agricultural software solutions.
  • Task Tracking & Methodology: Experience using Jira for task tracking and familiarity with Scrum or Agile methodologies, delivering designs in a fast-paced, iterative environment under tight deadlines.

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• About the company

  Global Technical Talent specializes in recruiting and pre-qualifying senior level IT professionals for clients' immediate long- and short-term contract needs, contract to hire and direct hire positions. Because we work exclusively with high level I...

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