Digital Product Designer [AQ-25101]
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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Original job description
Aquent is partnering with a visionary organization dedicated to revolutionizing how businesses manage their finances. As a **Digital Product Designer**, you will be at the forefront of innovation, driving the conceptualization, development, and deployment of an industry-leading platform. This is your unparalleled opportunity to directly influence how businesses interact with their money, crafting groundbreaking, user-centric experiences that redefine an entire industry and leave a lasting impact on commercial clients globally.
In this pivotal role, your expertise will be critical in ensuring solutions are not only functional but also groundbreaking and user-centric, delivering experiences that are intuitive, impactful, and set new benchmarks for the industry. This is your chance to lead with design, transform complex financial processes into elegant solutions, and significantly contribute to a platform that empowers businesses worldwide.
What You’ll Do
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment - one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
In this pivotal role, your expertise will be critical in ensuring solutions are not only functional but also groundbreaking and user-centric, delivering experiences that are intuitive, impactful, and set new benchmarks for the industry. This is your chance to lead with design, transform complex financial processes into elegant solutions, and significantly contribute to a platform that empowers businesses worldwide.
What You’ll Do
- Act as a strategic partner to product owners and business analysts, translating complex business requirements into elegant, user-centric experiences.
- Lead dynamic collaboration and co-creation sessions with cross-functional stakeholders, building trust through design expertise and clear communication.
- Collaborate with Design Researchers, Visual Designers, and Content Designers to deliver holistic solutions that balance user needs with business goals.
- Mentor and support design peers, helping them navigate competing demands and manage their workloads effectively.
- Identify common design patterns and contribute to robust design systems and asset libraries to ensure consistency across the platform.
- Work hand-in-hand with development teams to ensure design integrity is maintained throughout the implementation process.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize your workload independently, and adapt gracefully to client feedback or technical constraints.
- Maintain clear documentation of design decisions, user flows, and wireframes to keep the broader team aligned.
- 10–15+ years of dedicated experience designing complex digital products with deep interaction design expertise, including intricate user flows, detailed wireframing, and interactive prototyping.
- 3–10+ years of experience collaborating deeply with or managing content strategy workflows.
- 5+ years of experience leveraging data and user research to rigorously guide the design process.
- Demonstrated lateral and design thinking, with the innate ability to re-frame problems, draw inspiration from diverse domains, and solve root client needs.
- Strong systems thinking, capable of designing holistically across highly interconnected digital experiences while respecting technical boundaries.
- Deep knowledge of accessibility best practices (including WCAG guidelines) to champion inclusive experiences for all users.
- A proven track record of resilience and agility, handling stakeholder feedback with grace, adapting to change, and celebrating collective wins.
- Familiarity with front-end technologies and a strong understanding of how design translates into development.
- Prior experience or deep understanding of financial services or commercial banking.
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment - one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
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Responsibilities
Translate complex business requirements into user-centered digital experiences and lead collaboration with product, research, visual design, content, and development teams. Contribute to design systems, mentor peers, document design decisions and flows, and manage multiple projects while maintaining design integrity through implementation.
Requirements
Requires 10–15+ years of complex digital product design experience, 3–10+ years working with content strategy workflows, and at least five years using data and user research to guide design. Candidates should bring strong interaction and systems thinking, accessibility knowledge including WCAG, resilience with stakeholder feedback, and familiarity with front-end technologies; financial services experience is preferred.
Skills
- Digital Product Design
- Interaction Design
- User-Centered Design
- User Flows
- Wireframing
- Interactive Prototyping
- Content Strategy
- User Research
- Data-Informed Design
- Systems Thinking
- Accessibility
- WCAG
- Design Systems
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Front-End Technologies
- Design Documentation
Benefits
- Subsidized Health Plans
- Subsidized Vision Plans
- Subsidized Dental Plans
- Paid Sick Leave
- Retirement Plan With Employer Match
- Free Online Training
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Art & Design
- Creative & Media
- Technology
- Finance & Accounting
Keywords
- Digital Product Design
- Interaction Design
- Complex Digital Products
- User-Centered Experiences
- Business Requirements
- Product Owners
- Business Analysts
- Design Research
- Visual Design
- Content Design
- Content Strategy
- User Research
- Data-Informed Design
- User Flows
- Wireframes
- Interactive Prototyping
- Design Systems
- Asset Libraries
- Accessibility
- WCAG
- Systems Thinking
- Front-End Technologies
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Stakeholder Management
- Financial Services
- Commercial Banking