Hire Intellect - UI/UX Designer

UI Designer is needed in Toronto, Canada.

Client: Hire Intellect

Location: Toronto, ON, ca

Contract: Contract

Job Description

This is a remote position.

Job Title: UI/UX Designer

Job Type: Contract; Full-Time

Location: Canada (Remote)

Term: 2025/01/06 – 2025/03/31

About the Company:

Our client is a Crown corporation providing specialized and personalized financial services to farming operations. Our client offers financing, insurance, software, learning programs, and other business services to producers, agribusiness owners, and agri-food entrepreneurs across the country.

Responsibilities:

• Design user-centered products and services, addressing the full spectrum of users’ touchpoints, motivations, and needs.
• Provide UX support during design sprints, including consulting and delivering low to mid-fidelity wireframes and prototypes tailored to project requirements.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders and developers to ensure designs are implemented efficiently, meeting both user and business needs with minimal iteration.
• Deliver consistent, well-crafted, and user-friendly UI designs for web and mobile applications.
• Create detailed wireframes, prototypes, and other design artifacts to represent ideal or current user experiences for customers and employees.
• Ensure all designs meet digital accessibility standards, including creating compliant interfaces, conducting QA, and performing holistic audits to support company-wide accessibility initiatives.
• Plan and conduct user research sessions (e.g., usability testing, interviews) to uncover insights and translate findings into actionable design recommendations.

Requirements

Required Experience:

• 8+ years of UX/UI design experience, preferably for both web and mobile platforms, with a portfolio showcasing:
• Data entry interface designs for web and mobile applications.
• Clear communication of design requirements and decisions to product stakeholders, both verbally and in writing.
• Proficiency in Figma, with strong skills in prototyping and collaborative design workflows.
• Proven experience working closely with developers to ensure effective implementation of designs, including providing quick-turnaround solutions during sprints.

Required Skills:

• Experience designing enterprise-level products, preferably within the financial sector.
• Familiarity with contributing to or managing a design system to ensure consistency across applications.
• Expertise in designing accessible interfaces and conducting accessibility audits.
• Ability to plan and conduct user research (e.g., usability testing, interviews, surveys), analyze findings, and translate insights into actionable improvements.
• Familiarity with Canadian agriculture or experience with agricultural software.
• Experience using Jira for task tracking.
• Knowledge of Scrum or Agile methodologies, with experience delivering rapid, iterative designs under tight deadlines.