Location: This role is remote, we encourage applicants from Canada and the US to apply.

Position overview

Intelex is seeking an expert Product Designer to join our User Experience team! This role will be responsible for guiding and crafting remarkable and multifaceted digital experiences with an emphasis on crafting efficient experiences to help empower organizations to minimize negative social, environmental, and human impacts.

Are you an innovative designer who can combine user research, proven experience, and interaction design principles to help continue to refine the digital experience for Intelex’s customers? Join our team today!

Responsibilities and deliverables

• Apply user-centred design practices to influence project strategy and direction.
• Advocate for data-driven design solutions for web and mobile.
• Take ownership and help drive UX strategy - be an evangelist for UX practices across the company. Build distinctive digital experiences that are desirable and consistent across multiple products.
• Conduct user research to discover insights, and develop user scenarios, personas, user flows, design concepts, UX copy, low and high-fidelity wireframes, information architecture, prototypes, UI standards documents, and other design documents as needed.
• Working efficiently with Product Manager, Product Owner, and Internal Subject Matter Experts to convert research artifacts into the product roadmap.
• Conduct concept and usability testing to iteratively validate and improve design solutions. Collaborate with product customers to ensure a clear assessment of the needs of users and problems to be solved.
• Concrete understanding of product conceptualization and prototyping process in relation to user research. Review, interpret, and share research findings with project teams, working to build a shared understanding of user needs and difficulties
• Ensures team members fully recognize the problem before starting to explore possible solutions
• Backup design decisions with industry standard processes and guidelines (Material Design, iOS Human Interface Guidelines, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) principles, WCAG accessibility, or other proven design guidelines)

Organizational alignment

• Reports to the Manager, User Experience

Qualifications

SKILLS & WORK TRAITS

• Passionate about building products that people love
• Work autonomously in a cross-functional team with product managers, engineers, designers, and other team members
• Visual awareness with a deep understanding of design principles like typography, layout, composition, and colour theory. Solid understanding of how to animate UI elements in meaningful ways. Use timing and easing effectively. Work with engineering to implement animation to an accurate spec.
• Apply a test-and-learn approach to all your designs
• Experience effectively using standard design tools like Figma
• Have experience promoting the high-level strategy (the why) and helping your team tie design, data, and research back to that strategy
• Mentorship comes naturally

Technical proficiencies

REQUIRED

• Proficient with Figma or similar UX design tools
• Familiarity with Jira, Miro, or similar project management tools

Preferred

• Familiarity working with Material UI Design system, Lean UX, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS

Experience

REQUIRED

• 3 – 5 years in a product design-centric role
• Solid portfolio that shows your range in product design, design systems, user research, and visual design
• Solid UX Practice/UX Research knowledge

Preferred

• Experience researching, crafting a B2B SaaS product and working with Scrum or other Agile teams

Education

• Bachelor’s degree, diploma, or post-secondary training in UX/Product design-related area preferred.

Other Requirements

• Please note that this role requires a satisfactory Criminal Background Check and Public Safety Verification

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Company Overview

With more than 1000 clients and one million users, Intelex Technologies ULC. is a global leader in Environmental, Health, Safety (EHS) and Quality management software. Since 1992 its scalable, web-based platform and applications have helped clients across all industries improve business performance, mitigate organization-wide risk, and ensure sustained compliance with internationally accepted standards (e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001) and regulatory requirements. Intelex is one of Canada’s most highly awarded and fastest-growing tech companies and has been named one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Culture, Best Managed Companies in Canada, one of the fastest growing companies in PROFIT Magazine, as well as one of the country’s top employers by Aon Hewitt and Best Small and Medium Employers. For more information, visit www.intelex.com