Digital Six Consulting is a different kind of company, and we are proud of that. Our growing team consists of experienced, intelligent and ambitious individuals, who are committed to developing a sphere of positive influence with our clients, and in our community.
We are seeking highly enthusiastic, positive and self-motivated Consultants who care about people and want to be part of a different kind of company. The successful candidate will have had a successful track record as a consulting practitioner and have a reputation as a leader amongst their peers, in their field and in their community.
Immediate Position: Senior UX/UI Designer
Location: St. John’s, NL, Halifax, NS, remote
Digital Six is looking for an experienced individual to fill a Senior UX/UI Designer role on project-based and client-facing service engagements. Specifically, qualified candidates should possess experience, knowledge and skills that allow them to execute on the following responsibilities:
Required Experience/Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in UX design, interaction design, or equivalent professional experience
- Minimum 5+ years of UX/UI design experience
- Extraordinary portfolio of shipped work demonstrating impactful UX design leadership and exemplary understanding of user-centered design principles
- Experience developing UX across different types of devices and screen sizes.
- Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as wire-framing (Azure, Figma, Sketch) and graphic design (Photoshop, Illustrator).
- Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and sitemaps
- Demonstrated experience and understanding of user-centered design, user testing methodologies, usability, and accessibility standards and practices (WCAG 2.0, 2.1)
- Fluency in information architecture
- Experience designing large-scale systems and applications
- Experience working in a collaborative team, partnering closely with key stakeholders to define use cases and requirements, and working directly with developers on implementation of your designs.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments
- Experience working in public sector would be considered an asset
- Very strong verbal and written communication skills including presentation, teaching, and coaching
- A service-oriented attitude is essential
- Willingness to travel as required
Specifically, qualified candidates should possess experience, knowledge and skills that allow them to execute on the following responsibilities::
- Deliver a bold vision and iterate quickly on concepts to arrive at an amazing customer experience
- Think critically about user experiences and be able to put yourself in a user’s shoes.
- Create personas, user journeys and storyboards to support research and understanding.
- Work closely with the Product team as well as Engineers in creating concepts, designing and building experiences and software products.
- Define information and UI architectures, developing conceptual diagrams, wireframes, low fidelity prototypes and visual design for the screen.
- Actively participate in product development sprints, design workshops and brainstorming sessions.
About Digital Six:
You might want to work with us if you like the following:
- A company that balances profit and the common good
- A group of people who are passionate about our team, our clients, and our families
- A company focused on embracing the local – and global – community we are part of, fostering pride in our accomplishments and rewarding our hard work
- A company that values “work-life integration” our objective to enable team members to fully ‘live’ each day
- A place where people can achieve life goals. This transcends the business of work alone… in the belief that happy, contented people will make more meaningful contributions in their lives to their families, their clients and their colleagues and friends.
To Apply:
Please send your expression of interest clearly indicating the languages, software and platforms you work with to [email protected].
Only applicants considered for interviews will be contacted.