Finance Professionals Inc.: Senior Product Designer

Product Designer is needed in Toronto, ON, Canada, Canada.

Client: Finance Professionals Inc.

Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

Contract: Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Develop concise user experiences using various product design techniques such as user flows, wireframes, prototypes and/or documentation to effectively communicate your thought process to larger audiences and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of product managers, engineers, researchers, strategists, and business.
• Collaborate with fast-moving engineering teams to QA high-quality and intuitive experiences.
• Spot new trends, implement fresh insight-driven experiences, and collaborate with stakeholders to shape our products’ experiential direction.
• Work on and with design strategists to facilitate discovery sessions, map out journeys, and develop strategic design plans that will enable a seamless transition of ideas during the design process and boost business metrics.
• Work on and with design researchers to conduct interviews, usability testing, and other research to provide insights that will drive design decisions and positively improve client experiences.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior designers to foster the growth mentality within the design team.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years in a product design environment with a portfolio of demonstrated shipment of products, sites, or apps.
• Attention to design details (patterns, techniques, end-to-end design processes)
• A strong understanding of human-centered design principles, thinking, processes, and aesthetics.
• Be a strong communicator and advocate for the client, the brand, and its impact.
• Be comfortable communicating and collaborating with key stakeholders.
• Be comfortable being involved and occasionally running design thinking facilitation sessions with cross-functional teams.
• Deadline-driven and results-oriented; able to meet consistently high-quality standards while handling a variety of tasks and deadlines simultaneously.
• You are human-centered, empathetic, humble, and willing to advocate for what’s best for client-first.
• Proficiency in design, prototyping and collaboration tools: Figma/FigJam, MURAL, Adobe Creative Suite, Confluence, JIRA etc.
• Mastery of visual design skills (i.e. color theory, typography, grids), understanding of the principles of atomic design including symbols, layer styles, and variables, and experience working with and growing a design library.

Preferred Skills:

• Undergraduate degree in Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, or related Design field
• Front-end (HTML, CSS, JS, React) experience.
• Experience in the Financial Industry
• Illustration, micro-interaction, and / or animation skills