UX/UI Designer

Job#:
Job Description:
Sr. UX/UI Designer
Client
: Big 5 Bank

Duration
: 6 month rolling contract

Location
: On-site every Wednesday and every 3rd Friday each month @ downtown Toronto, ON

Shift
: 37.5 hours/week

What You'll Be Doing
The UX/UI Designer will support and facilitate the development of banks Frontline experience across multiple digital properties.

As a UX/UI designer, you're a master storyteller, user experience evangelist and creative problem solver. You can drive design objectives and deliver innovative concepts while maintaining brand & design standards to ensure cross-site consistency. You're passionate about inclusive design, usability and performance. You enjoy keeping abreast on the latest design trends as well as collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver optimal design solutions and a cohesive/compelling experience for our clients.

How You'll Succeed

• Concepts & Designs – As a Sr. Designer you will lead the development and manage the end-to-end UX/UI process to deliver creative digital design concepts and solutions for banks Frontline digital properties. This includes participating in design workshops, as well as developing storyboards, sketches/wireframes, prototypes, mockups and visual assets.
• User Research & Usability Testing - Participate and contribute planning usability testing & stakeholder interviews with the intention of incorporating the feedback into concept and/or application development.
• Standards & Guidelines – You will help define, create and maintain the banks Frontline design and standards documentation to help enforce banks brand coherence, accessibility standards and cross-site consistency.
• Project Delivery – Define and deliver the design component (e.g. wireframes, user workflows, and interaction rules) for all assigned projects by working collaboratively with key team members from various disciplines (e.g. editorial content, visual design, business analysis/product, development & quality assurance) within an agile/iterative design & development environment where timely delivery of design deliverables is critical.
• Relationship Building - Build and manage complex stakeholder relationships, ensuring all partners and stakeholders are appropriately engaged for design-related deliverables. You will also act as mentor and coach to new team members and will collaborate with other Sr. Designers maturing our design practice
• Innovation and Design workshops - You will drive activities and tasks that promote innovations during the delivery cycles and will collaborate closely with UX Strategy on ideation and early project stages with the goal to achieve a smooth and continued transition into UX Delivery.

Who You Are

• You have education and/or 8+ years of experience in Digital Design, UX Design and/or Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction or equivalent and have experience coordinating and leading Design Thinking Workshops at large scale with multidisciplinary teams.
• You can demonstrate advanced expertise or knowledge in Figma, Sketch, Invision, user-centered design principles, UX research methods, mobile and responsive design, inclusive design and WCAG accessibility standards.
• You're digitally savvy. You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.
• Your influence makes an impact. You know that relationships and networks are essential to success. You inspire outcomes by making yourself heard.
• You put our clients first. You engage with purpose to find the right solutions. You go the extra mile because it's the right thing to do.

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview:
Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview:
Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.

Apex Systems is part of the Commercial Segment of ASGN Incorporated.

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