Senior UI Designer

Base Salary Range: $90000 - $110000

Job Title: Senior UI Designer
Job ID: 83846
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia - Hybrid


Overview:
Our enterprise applications have a substantial footprint in the messaging and archiving space for compliance. This role provides an excellent opportunity to help solve challenging problems and create incredible experiences that significantly impact high-profile customers. The UI Designer focuses on visually guiding the user through a product’s interface via interactive elements across multiple platforms (web, desktop, and mobile). This will involve creating high-fidelity mock-ups, iconography, UI illustrations, and other graphic assets for a range of products and services. The UI Designer will be responsible for elevating the Design System by delivering pixel-perfect designs that bring clarity and unity to the visual language. Working with other UI and UX Designers, Product Managers, and Engineering teams in a highly customer-focused agile environment, you will be involved in the product development lifecycle from concept to delivery to help define the vision for our products.


What you will be doing:

• Design and evolve the look and feel of the organization’s visual language
• Follow a Human-Centred Design approach and adhere to UX best practices
• Apply the best principles of layout composition, typography, visual hierarchy, and motion design
• Deliver pixel-perfect graphic assets that are aesthetically vibrant
• Lead and create user interfaces that are sleek and easy to use
• Translate high-level requirements and interaction flows into intuitive and functional user interfaces
• Communicate design ideas with conviction within the UX team and to non-creative stakeholders
• Develop storyboards, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes to communicate design ideas and solutions effectively
• Design and document new components and interaction patterns for the Design System
• Ensure new components and designs meet WCAG and WAI-ARIA accessibility standards
• Adhere to existing patterns and apply consistency accordingly
• Identify opportunities for UI improvement or differentiation
• Facilitate workshops to achieve cross-team alignment on new standards
• Support engineers focused on building the design system
• Measure and monitor the performance of the components you work on
• Champion and establish a solid UI practice and be accountable for UI output
• Work alongside engineering teams to test and iterate on interface design
• Guide engineering teams through the build and QA process
• Collaborate closely with other UI and UX Designers to find practical solutions to challenging workflows
• Coach and support junior UI designers in the team

• 5+ years of experience doing visual/UI design for web, desktop, and mobile applications
• Portfolio of relevant UI design work from shipped products, apps, or services
• Bachelor’s degree in a design-related discipline is preferable
• Solid understanding of user-centred design best practices
• Strong typographic and colour theory knowledge
• Ability to create icons, illustrations, and other graphic assets for the web
• Ability to create and quickly iterate on high-fidelity mock-ups
• Ability to create high-fidelity prototypes to communicate motion and screen transitions
• Ability to communicate UI ideas verbally and visually in an efficient and clear manner
• Ability to take ownership and solve problems creatively
• Experience working with and contributing to design systems and component libraries
• Knowledge of responsive design and mobile design guidelines
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices and approaches
• Proficiency in design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and Sketch
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multitask and stay organized in a dynamic environment
• Motion design experience is an asset
• Experience in an enterprise business environment and Agile is an asset