Product Designer

3 hours ago

Remote Canada Speer Technologies Remote Full-time $50,000 - $70,000 Contract

Overview

  • Design beautiful interfaces for web and mobile digital products across different industries.
  • Share and revise your designs based on internal feedback and feedback from our partners as well as UX research and best practices.
  • Be involved in all aspects of product design, working closely with the team to execute the products efficiently.
  • Create high fidelity designs and prototypes for new projects.
  • Create a simple design system for new products.
  • Create logos and branding materials for our partners.
  • Occasionally create graphics, illustrations and social media assets internally for Speer and for our partners.
  • Research and stay on top of new design trends and best practices


Responsibilities

  • Deliver design iterations that meet deadlines and product requirements.
  • Take in constructive feedback and iterate to improve design concepts, aesthetic and usability.
  • Present and deliver iterations to the team in the form of a sharable link, design files or prototypes.
  • Take initiative to ask questions, research best practices and expose yourself to design resources available to you.
  • Work with the development team during design handoff to insure pixel perfect execution of the design

Skills Required

  • 2 years of experience with mobile and web design.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Design or similar program or UX/UI certificate course.
  • Experience using website building platforms like: Wordpress, Squarespace, Framer etc.
  • Give and receive constructive feedback on your team’s work.
  • Strong understanding of creating components and building and maintaining design systems in Figma.
  • Stay organized and meet deadlines.
  • Able to interact professionally with a diverse group of people.
  • You have experience working with agile design processes, iterative prototyping.
  • Comfortable using tools like Adobe XD, Ai, photoshop, sketch, invision etc.
  • Strong wiliness to learn, ask questions, seek guidance from your peers and improve your skills.
  • Strong understanding and execution of basic design principles.

Preferred Skills

  • Enthused to work in an agile / high-paced environment.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Self-starter with initiative.
  • Keep your skills up-to-date and make recommendations on best practices for user experience, accessibility and more.
  • Effectively contribute suggestions and new ideas to improve the product’s design and usability.
  • An Agile mindset with experience working in Agile environment.
  • A spirit of collaboration and transparent communication.
  • A natural curiosity for new design trends, best practices and innovation.
  • Team spirit and a sense of humour is always great.
  • Experience or willingness to learn new skills like illustration, motion design, animation.
  • Desire to think outside the box and push your design skills to the next level.
  • Fluency in French is an asset.

Job Details

  • Job Type: Full-Time
  • Pay: $50,000.00-$70,000.00 a year
  • Flexible language requirement: French not required
  • Schedule: Monday to Friday

Benefits

  • Dental care
  • Paid time off
  • Vision care
  • Wellness program