Senior Visual Designer

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Our goal is to become our industry’s leader in exceptional digital experiences. We’re putting strategy, research, design principles, and technical innovation at the centre of everything we do and we need exceptional digital professionals to bring our process to life.

As a Senior Visual Designer you’ll instinctively weave iconography, typography, colour, space and texture together to simplify and improve how our customers navigate our products and services. You’ll delight users with designs that inspire, engage and excite. Working in an agile environment, you’ll collaborate with interdisciplinary team members and stakeholders as you analyze, design and convey your design vision.

What will you do?

• Understand visual-spatial displays, and use that understanding to improve user comprehension, and improve task performance and create visual components considering the broader context, to be used in multiple situations, to bring about efficiency and consistency.
• Use dynamic visualizations to support analytic thinking with large data sets and facilitate ideation sessions and collaborative work activities and present visual design work to more senior stakeholders.
• Use a comprehensive understanding of visual design theory, research data and best practices to inform design decisions and design high complexity visual artifacts for digital media (web or native app) to exchange information, elicit emotion and facilitate interaction.
• Create complex low-fidelity sketches, hi-fidelity mock-ups and prototypes to communicate intent, or delivery specifications for development and facilitate design critique, evaluate visual designs for inclusivity and provide expert advice and guidance to cross-functional teams.
• Contribute practical direction to the larger design team on RBC’s visual communication standards, tools, channels, and processes.
• Facilitate usability testing, participate in or initiate research activities, research visual design and communication strategies in the financial services sector and perform competitive audits pertinent to specific design or business goals.
• Perform visual design audits where appropriate.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• BA/BS degree in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), HCI, CS, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Portfolio that includes web and/or mobile design samples.
• Solid knowledge of design tools (Figma, Sketch, InVision and presentation software) and principles (typography, grid systems, visual hierarchy, colour, white space, etc.).
• Understanding of responsive design and experience in the agile process.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to build good working relationships.

Nice-to-have

• Experience working in the Financial industry specifically with Wealth Management is an asset
• General understanding of HTML/CSS (able to produce web-ready assets and designs)
• Experience with high-fidelity prototyping or animation products (After effects, Lottie)
• Experience with Content Management Systems (CMS)

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• You’ll find yourself in a culture where designers feel included, valued, and heard; in a supportive environment surrounded by peers who exceed in their area of expertise.
• You’ll work on solutions used by millions of people and contribute to a company that truly values customer experience and remains a Global Digital leader.
• You’ll be part of team that’s pushing the boundaries of digital product design as we strive to improve the lives of the people and communities we serve.
• Work/life balance is important to us; you will be part of a company that values your time.

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JOB SUMMARY
City: Toronto
Address: 155 Wellington Street West
Work Hours/Week: 37.5
Work Environment: Office
Employment Type: Permanent
Career Level: Experienced Hire/Professional
Pay Type: Salaried
Required Travel(%): 0
Exempt/Non-Exempt: N/A
People Manager: No
Application Deadline: 12/23/2020
Platform: Wealth Management
Req ID: 299401
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