UX Designer

Cella by Randstad Digital is seeking a highly skilled and passionate UX Designer who is a strong advocate for the customer. In this role, you will be dedicated to customer-centric innovation, taking pride in iterating until an experience is finely tuned. You are an excellent storyteller, comfortable presenting and discussing your work with clients and stakeholders, and someone who naturally puts the user at the center of everything you do. If you are eager to collaborate with top design talent to create industry-leading experiences across all customer touchpoints, we want to hear from you.

This is a 6-month contract, which requires the talent to work onsite at our client's office in downtown Toronto 4 days per week.

Advantages
• You will work on highly complex datasets, personalized dashboard architectures, and intricate workflows. Successfully simplifying these into elegant user experiences provides elite resume material that proves your senior-level capabilities.
• This role isn't just about pixel-pushing; you are expected to shape the strategic experience design approach for major initiatives, challenge old ways of thinking, and act as a true strategic partner to development and business teams.
• You will join a sophisticated team of top-tier design talent. This environment fosters rapid professional growth through peer-to-peer feedback, exposure to cross-channel methodologies, and the opportunity to utilize cutting-edge tools (including AI asset generation).
• If you view feedback as a tool for growth, you will thrive here. This organization values design storytelling and provides a supportive platform where your rationales are heard, your iterations are encouraged, and your role as a user advocate is respected.

Responsibilities
• Experience Innovation: Transform complex problems into elegant, intuitive experiences through strategic ideation and concept development.
• Artifact Creation: Produce high-quality sketches, wireframes, specifications, prototypes, scenarios, and storyboards.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to ensure design intent is fully realized and successfully achieved.
• User Advocacy: Champion the user's needs throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Research & Testing: Participate in observational studies, usability testing, and other customer research initiatives.
• Communication: Effectively communicate conceptual ideas, detailed designs, and design approaches/rationales to a diverse audience.
• Industry Alignment: Stay abreast of current design methodologies, practices, and evolving industry trends.

Qualifications
• Education & Experience: A degree in design or a design-related discipline (e.g., industrial design, user-centered design, design strategy, human-computer interaction, human factors) along with 5+ years of experience as a UX Designer.
• Design Tool Expertise: High proficiency and expertise with standard design tools, specifically Figma, Axure, and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Prototyping & Visualization: Strong prototyping skills across various mediums (sketch, paper, wireframe, interactive prototypes) and a strong capability in data visualization design to turn complex datasets into clear, meaningful visual stories.
• Dashboard Design: Proven experience designing personalized dashboards that adapt to user roles, behaviors, and preferences.
• Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Excellent organization, logic, and analytical skills, with a proven ability to simplify complicated workflows and translate conceptual ideas into compelling experiences.
• Communication & Feedback: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to ask insightful questions, present to diverse audiences, and constructively integrate feedback.
• Portfolio: A creative and visually compelling design portfolio demonstrating a keen eye for detail and meticulous execution.
• Experience within the Financial Services (FI) or Business Banking industry.
• Expertise using AI-driven tools to generate or transform design assets.

Summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a technical data professional to influence the measurement strategy of a major digital marketing and AI group. If you are a proactive problem-solver who stays current with product updates from Adobe, Meta, and CoPilot, and you thrive in a fast-paced, enterprise-level environment, we want to hear from you.

Please note that our client values stability; candidates should demonstrate a history of consistent project engagement. Apply today to ensure your profile is considered for this immediate opening.

Cella by Randstad Digital uses artificial intelligence to help our recruiters screen, assess and select qualified talent for this role and others within our database. Although Cella by Randstad Digital uses A.I. as a tool, candidate selection and hiring decisions are made by our employees.

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