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Job Title: Interaction Visual Designer

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 + Months

Job Purpose:

As member of highly collaborative senior design team, the designer will focus on internal web software that enables our Advisors to provide strategic advice to their clients. The designer will be engaged in the digital transformation of business banking, from the Design Thinking that drives the user experience of the tool, to the analysis and research to that distills banking complexity into user-centered information design, to the visual design that enables the user experience. You will be comfortable within agile team environments and an iterative process, you will collaborate with interdisciplinary team, Members and stakeholders as you analyze, design and convey your responsive design vision. A natural problem solver, communicator and facilitator, you will be involved in every step of the process from idea generation to implementation.

Main Responsibilities:

Interaction design:

• Facilitate design critique, evaluate interactions for inclusivity and provide expert advice and guidance to cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Understand user interface patterns and behaviours, and use that understanding to drive user comprehension, and improve task performance
• Design artifacts of high complexity to communicate task flows, touchpoints, behaviours, and the exchange of information
• Use visualizations and interactions to support analytic thinking with large data sets
• Act as an interaction design subject-matter expert for the product design team

Visual Design:

• Have primary team accountability for usage of the Design System, and act as the visual design expert on the team
• Design high complexity visual artifacts to communicate information, facilitate interaction, and drive action
• Create complex low-fidelity sketches, hi-fidelity mock-ups and prototypes to communicate intent, and/or delivery specifications for development
• Understand visual-spatial displays, and use that understanding to improve user comprehension, and improve task performance

Leadership & Collaboration:

• Facilitate ideation sessions, collaborative work activities, and provide expert advice and guidance to cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Participation in Agile ceremonies and decision making

Must have skills:

• A degree or certification in Design (interaction/product/industrial/visual design) or Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or related/equivalent experience
• Experience in 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 collaboration tools such as Figma, Mural, and design systems
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in both Interaction Design and Visual Design, with a Portfolio that includes application design examples featuring data/information design

Nice to have skills:

• Experience with facilitating or supporting user research, with an understanding of various research methods and how/when they are applied
• A BA/BS or MA/MS degree or certification in Design (interaction/product/industrial/visual design) or Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or related/equivalent

Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.