Interaction Designer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid | Downtown, Toronto

Duration: 12 months

Our client a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto is looking for an Interaction Designer to collaborate and support agile team with day-to-day needs. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

  • Provide design solutions for complex, ambiguous problems
  • Collaborate and support agile team with day-to-day needs
  • Support product delivery through planning, assigning and executing.
  • Promotes and advances design practice within the team

Must-Have Skills:

  • Design Thinking and ability to demonstrate process
  • Interaction design with advance knowledge of current best practices for Responsive Web and Mobile
  • Product Development best pratices and working with cross functional agile teams
  • Decision Making and Critical thinking
  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills 
  • A minimum of 5 years of experience in designing usable interfaces across multiple channels and platforms
  • Experience in an applied research setting including experience integrating user research into product designs and design practices
  • Demonstrated ability to articulate design strategy, rational and logic; describing benefits and highlighting risks associated with design decisions
  • Demonstrated expertise with design, prototyping, and research tools such as Figma, Mural, UserTesting.com

Nice-To-Have Skills:

  • Proficient in visual Design and Research
  • Proficient in French
  • Strong understanding of strengths and shortcomings of different research methods, including when and how to apply them during each product phase
  • Appreciation for the potential of ‘design thinking’
  • Experience working within a large organization and within an agile environment

Soft Skills Required:

  • Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to collaborate with other designers and cross-functional team members, ability to manage stakeholders and build relationships. Experience in facilitating workshops is a nice to have.

Education:

  • BA/BS degree in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science (CS), or a related field or equivalent practical experience
  • MA/MS degree or certification in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science (CS), or a related field

Finance professional is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.