Senior Hybrid Interactive/Visual Designer [AQ-25202]
- Toronto, ON, Canada
$60 to $63 CAD / hour · Contract
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Job details
- Pay
- $60 to $63 CAD / hour
- Job type
- Contract
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- Experience
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years of professional digital product design experience creating intuitive, responsive interfaces across web, mobile, and multi-channel platforms.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
We are seeking an experienced Hybrid Interaction & Visual Designer to shape modern digital experiences across our core customer-facing products. In this role, you will bridge the gap between complex workflows, data visualization, and polished visual execution within an iterative, agile environment.
You will act as an interaction design subject-matter expert while bringing high aesthetic standards to life, collaborating closely with product managers, researchers, engineers, and executive stakeholders to drive digital solutions from early discovery through to delivery.
What You Will Do
Design Strategy & Facilitation
Required Qualifications
Are you ready to join a distinguished financial institution that is committed to empowering clients and communities? Our client is a leading provider of banking and financial services, renowned for its customer-centric approach and innovative solutions. With a rich history of success and a strong focus on diversity and inclusion, our client is dedicated to building a better future for all. Join us in our mission to make a positive impact and drive meaningful change.
You will act as an interaction design subject-matter expert while bringing high aesthetic standards to life, collaborating closely with product managers, researchers, engineers, and executive stakeholders to drive digital solutions from early discovery through to delivery.
What You Will Do
Design Strategy & Facilitation
- Act as the interaction design subject-matter expert across cross-functional product teams.
- Translate complex data sets and multifaceted workflows into intuitive user interface patterns and visualizations that drive task performance and user comprehension.
- Lead ideation workshops, collaborative design sprints, and design critique sessions.
- Evaluate interaction systems for accessibility, inclusivity, and technical feasibility, providing clear design rationale to leadership and technical partners.
- Combine interaction principles, visual design theory, and research insights to deliver end-to-end design solutions.
- Produce everything from low-fidelity wireframes and user flows to high-fidelity UI specifications, responsive layouts, and interactive micro-interactions.
- Build advanced prototypes to validate complex interactions and supply comprehensive delivery specifications to engineering teams.
- Maintain consistency by contributing to and auditing design system components, patterns, and interaction standards.
- Partner with UX researchers - and lead targeted evaluative research - to ground design decisions in verifiable user feedback.
- Plan and facilitate usability tests, synthesize findings, and iterate rapidly based on observed user behaviors.
- Conduct competitive audits and UX benchmarking to identify market trends and opportunities for innovation.
Required Qualifications
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years of professional digital product design experience creating intuitive, responsive interfaces across web, mobile, and multi-channel platforms.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Visual Communications, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Portfolio: A portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design case studies, showing information architecture, wireframing, interaction models, prototyping, and refined visual craft for complex applications.
- Design & Prototyping Craft: Advanced proficiency in industry-standard design tools (e.g., Figma) and remote collaboration platforms (e.g., Mural, Miro).
- Research Literacy: Direct experience participating in or conducting usability testing (e.g., via UserTesting.com) and translating qualitative and quantitative research data into actionable product designs.
- Communication: Proven ability to articulate design strategy, present complex concepts clearly to senior stakeholders, and advocate for design decisions using sound rationale.
- Master’s degree or relevant advanced certification in HCI, Design, or a related discipline.
- Experience navigating large, regulated enterprise environments (such as financial services, fintech, healthcare, or enterprise SaaS).
- Strong grasp of design thinking frameworks and modern agile delivery methodologies.
- Deep knowledge of web and mobile accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA/AAA).
- Scale & Impact: Design products and features utilized by millions of users daily, solving complex real-world problems.
- Design-Forward Culture: Work within a collaborative, inclusive environment that places UX, research, and technical innovation at the center of product strategy.
- Professional Growth: Continuous learning opportunities alongside a multidisciplinary team of product designers, design system engineers, and UX researchers.
Are you ready to join a distinguished financial institution that is committed to empowering clients and communities? Our client is a leading provider of banking and financial services, renowned for its customer-centric approach and innovative solutions. With a rich history of success and a strong focus on diversity and inclusion, our client is dedicated to building a better future for all. Join us in our mission to make a positive impact and drive meaningful change.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead interaction and visual design across customer-facing digital products, translating complex workflows and data into intuitive, accessible interfaces and visualizations. Facilitate collaborative design activities, create prototypes and delivery specifications, maintain design systems, and use research and testing to refine solutions.
Requirements
Requires at least five years of digital product design experience, a relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience, and a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design for complex applications. Candidates should have advanced proficiency with design and collaboration tools, experience with usability research, and strong communication skills; enterprise experience, accessibility expertise, and a relevant master’s degree or certification are preferred.
Skills
- Interaction Design
- Visual Design
- Product Design
- Information Architecture
- Wireframing
- Prototyping
- Data Visualization
- Design Systems
- Usability Testing
- User Research
- Accessibility
- Figma
- Mural
- Miro
- Agile Methodologies
- Stakeholder Communication
Benefits
- Professional Growth
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Art & Design
- Creative & Media
- Technology
- Finance & Accounting
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Interaction Design
- Visual Design
- Digital Product Design
- User Interface
- Data Visualization
- Complex Workflows
- Information Architecture
- Wireframes
- User Flows
- Prototyping
- Responsive Design
- Micro-Interactions
- Design Systems
- Usability Testing
- UX Research
- Competitive Audits
- UX Benchmarking
- Figma
- Mural
- Miro
- UserTesting.com
- WCAG 2.1 AA/AAA
- Accessibility
- Design Thinking
- Agile Delivery
- Financial Services
- Banking
- Enterprise SaaS