Manager, UX Design

**About Kinaxis**: **UX Manager**: **Location**:_our office in Ottawa, Canada_**: **The Opportunity**: As UX Manager at Kinaxis you will lead a team of talented designers to create delightful and meaningful experiences for our users. Your role is a blend of design leadership and creating designs. You will be responsible for pushing the boundaries of what our enterprise solutions can achieve, ensuring our product is not only functional but also intuitive and transformative for our customers. We are committed to exceptional user experiences, and at the heart of our approach is Design Thinking, a methodology that fuels our creative process and product development. You will inspire a team of skilled UX professionals, guiding them through a human-centric design process that encourages ideation, rapid prototyping, iterative feedback, and empathetic user experiences. You will be instrumental in crafting the ultimate user journey and overseeing projects from conception to delivery. Join us in our mission to revolutionize enterprise software with unparalleled UX design, propelling businesses forward through smart, beautiful, and user-focused solutions **You'll get to do things like**: - Lead and mentor a team of talented UX designers with a mindset rooted in Design Thinking, fostering an environment where ideas flourish and innovative solutions are born. - Spearhead a collaborative design process from ideation to execution, incorporating user feedback, and business requirements to create intuitive and transformative user experiences. - Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions. - Drive the end-to-end design process, ensuring a consistent and intuitive user experience across all platform functionalities. - Drive a culture of continuous improvement, leveraging Design Thinking principles to refine our products and processes. - Engage with cross-functional teams to integrate user-centered design methodologies across all product stages. - Host and facilitate Design Thinking workshops and brainstorming sessions to solve user experience challenges. - Craft user personas, journey maps, and storyboards to guide design strategies and decisions. - Oversee the creation of wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for comprehensive user testing and iteration. **You'll need the following**: - Bachelor's or master's degree in design, HCI, Psychology, or equivalent experience. - 5+ years of UX design experience with a strong portfolio showcasing your leadership in UX projects. - At least 2 years of experience managing or leading a design team. - Proficiency in UX design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Miro, Illustrator). - Exceptional communication, presentation, and analytical skills. - Expertise in facilitating workshops. - Familiarity with agile UX methodologies. - Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills to effectively share the UX vision. - A creative and strategic mindset. **And this will make you stand out**: - Experience conducting user research and usability studies. - Hands on experience with agile UX design practices. **What we have to offer**: - **Challenging Work - **We love solving highly complex problems. And as the global leaders in our industry, we never stop innovating—our work is never "done. That's because across our teams and in all roles, every employee is empowered to bring their best ideas forward and to jump in and solve the problems they're passionate about. - **Great People - **We take our work seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously It's in our DNA to celebrate, laugh, and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open, honest, and above all, real. Every person is valued here and plays an important role in our shared success. - **Global Impact -** As a global team spanning continents, boundaries, and cultures, every day we are inspired by the impact our work has on our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world at large. - **Diversity, Equity and Inclusion** - Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than words to us. They are the guiding principles for building a culture where we celebrate each others' differences, continuously strive for equality and recognize that inclusion makes us stronger as individuals, a company and a global citizen.