Expected Earnings: $65,000 – $110,000 + benefits, 10% bonus, stock options, 4 weeks holidays
Job type: Full time
Work experience: 5+ years
We’re looking for a proven, experienced, innovative and ambitious UX / UI Front End Designer – Vancouver to take on a leading role within our client’s front-end design team. If you’re that someone, read on!
You’ll work very closely with Product, Marketing, and Front-end development teams. You’ll design, architect and help to implement fundamental pieces of online user experience.
We’re looking for a UX / UI Front End Designer – Vancouver (Pixel Artist) to be an essential part of overall online customer experience. We need someone who has an above-average eye for design, a portfolio stacked with award winning online experiences. You will work within the front-end team among talented designers and developers and collaborate with product owners to create UX & UI solutions for some fundamental pieces of online user experience – website landing pages, product applications, member portal and other parts of online customer experience. The designer we’re looking for is fluent in a mobile-first & responsive design with a strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, frameworks & grids and can expertly navigate the Adobe Creative Cloud.
If you’ve got 5+ years of experience in the field, consider yourself a “design thinker” and an expert at researching and solving challenging UX/UI problems, and have experience working with larger, distributed teams, we’d love to talk to you.
Required Skills & Experience – UX / UI Front End Designer – Vancouver
Degree in a design-related discipline (digital media, interaction design, etc.)
3- 5 years professional experience with visual design for mobile-first & responsive websites and SaaS interfaces
A strong portfolio that includes UX & UI designs for e-commerce websites (B2C), and shows approach to user experience
A passion for data-driven designs, and ability to support UX & UI solutions with data & research
Proficiency in industry tools including Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch, Omnigraffle, Balsamiq and Axure
Strong knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, frameworks and responsive grids with an understanding of how design choices translate in development
Advanced experience with user-centric design, with a functionality and usability-first approach
Ability to take feedback, without ego, and turn it into rock-solid design solutions
Ability to multitask, prioritize projects, communicate progress and expected milestones and work independently
Experience working within agile design and development teams
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Experience and high comfort-level when working with stakeholders to gather requirements, perform user research, and write/maintain user acceptance criteria
Advanced experience with tools and principles of user-centered design, human-computer interaction, human factors, information architecture, heuristic analysis, content strategy, usability testing and UX best practices
Ability to translate research and requirements into specifications and prototypes that can be referred to by our front-end and back-end development teams during implementation
Ability to multitask, prioritize projects, and communicate progress and expected milestones
Advanced ideation skills and original thinking with an eye for innovation
A multitasker; comfortable juggling multiple tasks, projects and requirements with ease and ability to shift between projects at a moment’s notice
Willingness to go above-and-beyond required tasks and prescribed duties when required
Have a strong online portfolio available for review
TO APPLY:
If you have the skills and experience required for this position, please forward your resume to:
E-mail: info@tm8.ca