UX Designer

Job Description

About Thales Canada Inc. A Canadian leader in research and technology, Thales Canada combines over 50 years of experience with the talent of more than 2,000 skilled people located coast-to-coast. With revenues of over $800 million, Thales Canada offers leading capabilities in the urban rail, civil aviation, defence, digital identity and security sectors, meeting the most complex needs and requirements of its customers across all operating environments.
Duties:• Work with product management team to define product experience and champion the user.
• Responsible for researching and designing the overall user experience for key new projects, as well as supporting ongoing improvements of current product, including conducting user testing, prototyping, creating wireframes and UI concepts, field research and combing through analytics.
• Present design solutions and project deliverables to team members and stakeholders. Be able to drive consensus and negotiate trade-offs effectively.
• Deliver appropriate level of design specifications needed to engineering to ensure high quality development on time. Collaborate as appropriate on creating user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Work independently against deadlines. Finds ways to maximize the efficiency in an agile process• Minor to moderate travel expected.Click on link to learn more on our products to be working on: https://safenet.gemalto.com/data-protection-on-demand/services/Qualifications: • 3+ years of experience in user experience design for software products or in a consulting environment. BA degree in HCI, graphic design or related field.
• Sketching, concept creation and wire framing, producing user flows, creating clickable prototypes.
• Experienced in research methods - usability testing (lab), phone interview, focus groups.
• Strong sensibility of best design practices for production delivery across platforms, ie desktop and mobile.
• Knowledge of interaction architecture practices in UX and the ability to take wireframes through to well-executed visual designs.
• Good presentation skills and able to present to stakeholders and good stakeholder management skills.
• Proficient in key software packages such as Axure and Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator. Sound knowledge of web and mobile technologies.
• Demonstrated success working in a cross functional team. Excellent interpersonal and communication (verbal & written) skills in English are required.
• Previous design experience working on B2B solutions for the enterprise market desired.