Senior User Interface Designer

Toronto 4 months agoContractor External
246 - 272 / hr
The Senior Visual Experience Designer is an experience design specialist who crafts beautiful, delightful user interfaces, sets the standard for visual excellence, and solves complex challenges for our users. Our client's designers are team players who are creative in thinking beyond the expected and launch high-quality experiences our customers will love. You will work with the Visualization Solutions product team on strategic projects with broad impact, creating consistent, scalable, delightful user experiences, and embracing an experimentation mindset to help design cutting-edge products. This includes delivering a consistent UI across our client's products. This is a 6 month contract, which requires the talent to work on a hybrid basis at our client's office in Toronto. Responsibilities • Partner with designers, program managers, and engineers exploring, planning, verifying, and building solutions that scale. • Drive a design system mindset, developing scalable, reusable, design system-aligned patterns for the product UI to create cohesive user experiences across products. • Deliver delightful, intuitive designs at all levels from overall layout to subtle microinteractions that together create highly-desirable products that our customers love. • Engage as an active member of an exciting, diverse, and global design community. Requirements • 5+ years of related professional user experience design experience. • Experience with design systems and reusable UI components. • Knowledge of the primary components of visual design, including typography, color theory, hierarchy, and gestalt principles. • Experience with visualizing and prototyping solutions at multiple levels of fidelity, from conceptual presentations, prototypes, and rough sketches to detailed wireframes, high-level mock-ups, and production-ready assets with documentation. • Experience presenting work to a diverse audience, providing clear rationale and outcomes of design decisions. • Preferred Qualifications: • Experience in interaction design (wireframing, flow diagramming, rapid prototyping, understanding of usability testing, etc.) • Experience working with animation or motion design. • Knowledge of industry-standard products or experience working in related industries where customers use similar products. • A strong interest in or curiosity about AI-driven interfaces and emerging technologies, and a comfort with ambiguity and experimentation. If you're a strong User Interface Designer with experience designing software products, we want to hear from you! When applying, you must include both a resume and a portfolio, if a password is required, please provide this as well.