Job: UI/UX Developer at Equitable Life of Canada

Description

Equitable Life of Canada is looking for an experienced UI/UX developer for a 3-4 month project to redesign our salesforce web portal. This exciting opportunity allows you to redesign the portal from the ground up using industry best practices and innovative ideas.

As a UX designer at Equitable, you will interact regularly with the project team, project stakeholders, and end users to come up with easy to use designs that are innovative and engaging.

What you will do

• Identify design problems in current applications and devise elegant solutions
• Turn concepts into mockups that lead to intuitive user experiences
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new functions and features based on research and analysis
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs
• Take smart risks and champion new ideas
• Work ahead of and create assets (images, HTML, CSS) for the developers
• Facilitate design sessions and use iterative UX techniques to transform findings and feedback into an informed user-centric design
• Lead design sprints and collaborative working sessions with team members and partner stakeholders
• Ensure level AA accessibility compliance (following standards for Ontario, Canada)
• Ensure designs are mobile responsive

What you need

• 2-4 years’ experience working in UX for web-based platforms.
• Experience in user research, interaction design and visual design for the web.
• Strong creative research, writing, and design skills.
• Strong communication skills, but better listening skills.
• Experience with wireframe software

Nice to have

• Ability to create interactive prototypes in HTML, JavaScript, CSS or other tools
• Experience working in Agile development environment

Education

• 3-year diploma or 4-year degree in design, computer science, human-computer interaction, or similar

How to apply

Please send your resume and cover letter to Lisa Pagnacco at lpagnacco@equitable.ca. Please include your portfolio and/or samples of your work to be considered for this position.