User Experience Designer

J5 is a service design consultancy dedicated to creating a kinder, more beautiful future. We collaborate with healthcare institutions, governments, non-profits, and communities to create human-centred services, strategies, and experiences. Our multidisciplinary team combine kindness, industry expertise, and creativity to offer a distinctive consulting experience. Learn more about us at https : / / www.jfive.com.

Role Description

This is a full-time role for a User Experience Designer, located in Edmonton, AB . This role will support a multidisciplinary team on various digital transformation projects and programs. The ideal candidate will have a broad skillset across research, interaction design, and visual design domains to be able to work on holistic design solutions, from early-stage idea generation until detailed design of service features and user stories in a digital product.

You’ll be part of a culture with passion for changing the world through human-centred design and systems thinking. Surrounded by creative and friendly co-workers, you will have the opportunity to work on projects that make a difference for people and communities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in UX design and digital product design
• Highly developed design skills, demonstrated in your portfolio of recent work
• Experience collaborating in multifunctional teams
• Proficiency with contemporary design and prototyping tools and methods
• Affinity with J5’s values, and a passion for creating products that meet peoples functional and emotional needs
• A university degree in Interaction Design, Visual Communications, Human Computer Interaction, or a related design or behavioural science discipline
• Experience working with HTML, CSS, Angular, React and other frontend design frameworks as required to deliver functional prototypes
• Experience with frontend design applications such as Axure, Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, etc.
• Experience with leadership, relationship building, and project planning skills
• Experience building and maintaining component libraries / design systems
• Experience developing UX artifacts, including streamlined scenarios, storyboards, wireframes, flows and interactive prototypes
• Experience using accessibility standards and principles including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

What We Offer

Equal Opportunities and Non-Discrimination

At J5, we are committed to creating a diverse environment. All suitably qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. In addition, during the various stages of recruitment, specific measures can be taken to ensure equal opportunities for candidates with disabilities or special needs.

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