UX Designer

Job Description

Position Description:

CGI, one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms globally, is at the forefront of transforming digital experiences. Through practical and strategic innovations, we’re helping drive value and greater efficiencies into commercial and government organizations around the world.
Global Wealth and Capital Markets is shaping the future of banking and wealth management by infusing emerging technologies with user-centric design into the products and services we develop. Our team is constantly devising design solutions, iterating, and working together to increase efficiencies and minimizing complexities to serve our clients in managing and building their financial futures.
We’re seeking a talented Senior UI/UX Designer to join our team.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Conduct user research by employing methods and tools to provide actionable insights such as defining personas, conducting user and stakeholder interviews and contextual inquiries, mapping out user journeys, running UX workshops, performing usability tests, etc.
• Work closely with product owners, business partners, developers, and data architects to understand business and functional requirements, as well as technical considerations.
• Participate in the ideation and experience design of complex applications for web and mobile.
• Manage and own the creation of consistent experiences across products and platforms through user-centered design processes including heuristic evaluations, sitemaps, process flows, wireframes, mockups and interactive prototypes.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure the design quality is maintained down the stream.
• Present and review designs with developers, product managers, and key stakeholders.
• Educate and articulate the thinking and strategy behind your work and design decisions.
• Conduct and/or coordinate design walkthroughs, feedback sessions and usability testing to validate proposed design solutions with stakeholders and end users.
• Ensure consistency across digital experiences and contribute in growing our library of components, interaction models and style guide.
• Proactively advocate for good user experience and design practices within the organization.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Minimum of 4+ years of relevant experience bringing digital products to life. (Experience working in the Financial industry such as wealth management is a definite asset.)
• Great communicator with strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Collaborative and strong ability to build positive relationships with cross departmental teams, as well as influence decision making and educate stakeholders.
• Demonstrated proficiency in tools such as Sketch, Invision, Figma, Adobe CC, Balsamiq, etc.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating a diversity of relevant work that encompasses UX expertise, interaction design, creativity and critical thinking.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and quickly iterating your way to a well, thought-out solution.
• Able to adapt approach and process to fit project goals, timelines and other parameters.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design practices with a desire to understand the end user.
• Understanding of front-end development (HTML, CSS) and comfortable talking to developers about the details of design implementation.
• Deep understanding of responsive design.
Skills:
• Agile delivery management
• Concept design
• Financial services
• Prototyping
• Technical analysis
• UX requirements
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Skills:

• Agile UX
• Financial Services
• UX design
• UX Strategy
• Web Accessibility

What you can expect from us:

Insights you can act on
While technology is at the heart of our clients’ digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.
When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today — one of the world’s largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.
At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.
Ready to become part of our success story? Join CGI — where your ideas and actions make a difference.