Senior UI Designer

Global Relay

  • Vancouver, BC
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
About Us:Global Relay's enterprise applications have a substantial footprint in the messaging & archiving space for compliance. This role provides an excellent opportunity to help solve challenging problems and create incredible experiences that significantly impact high-profile customers.The UI Designer focuses on visually guiding the user through a product's interface via interactive elements across multiple platforms (web, desktop and mobile). This will involve creating high-fidelity mock-ups, iconography, UI illustration and other graphic assets for a range of products and services. The UI Designer will be responsible for taking Global Relay's Design System to the next level by delivering pixel-perfect designs that bring clarity and unity to our visual language.Working with other UI and UX Designers, Product Managers and Engineering teams in a highly customer-focused agile environment, you will be involved in the product development lifecycle from concept to delivery to help define our products' vision.Your Job:
  • Design and evolve the look and feel of Global Relay's visual language
  • Follow a Human Centred Design approach and adhere to UX best practices
  • Apply with conviction the best principles of layout composition, typography, visual hierarchy and motion design
  • Deliver pixel-perfect graphic assets that are aesthetically vibrant
  • Lead and create user interfaces that are sleek and easy to use
  • Translate high-level requirements and interaction flows into intuitive and functional user interfaces
  • Communicate your design ideas with conviction within the UX team and non-creative stakeholders
  • Develop storyboards, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes to communicate design ideas and solutions effectively
  • Design and document new components and interaction patterns for Global Relay's Design System
  • Ensure new components and designs meet WCAG and WAI-ARIA accessibility standards
  • Adhere to existing patterns and apply consistency accordingly
  • Identify opportunities for UI improvement or differentiation
  • Facilitate workshops to get cross-team alignment on new standards
  • Support engineers focused on building the design system
  • Measure and monitor the performance of the components you work on
  • Champion and establish a solid UI practice and be accountable for the UI output
  • Work alongside engineering teams to test and iterate on the interface design
  • Guide engineering teams through the build and QA process
  • Collaborate closely with other UI and UX Designers to find practical solutions to challenging workflows
  • Coach and support junior UI designers in the team
About You:We're looking for a UI designer with true artistic talent and a clean, strong visual aesthetic. Relevant training and work experience are important, but we're really looking for your talent to shine through in the work you have done.
  • 5+ years of experience doing visual/UI design for web, desktop and mobile applications
  • Portfolio of relevant UI design work from shipped products/ apps/ services
  • Bachelor's degree in a design-related discipline is preferable
  • Solid understanding of user-centered design best practices
  • Strong typographic and colour theory knowledge
  • Ability to create icons, illustrations and other graphic assets for the web
  • Ability to create and quickly iterate on high-fidelity mock-ups
  • Ability to create high-fidelity prototypes to communicate motion and screen transition
  • Ability to communicate UI ideas verbally and visually in an efficient and clear manner
  • Ability to take ownership and solve problems creatively
  • Experience working with and contributing to design systems and component libraries
  • Knowledge of responsive design and mobile design guidelines
  • Knowledge of accessibility best practices and approaches
  • Knowledge of conventional design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch etc.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to multi-task and keep organized in a dynamic environment
  • Motion design experience is an asset
  • Experience in an enterprise business environment and Agile is definitely an asset

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