Senior UI Designer (Hybrid - Toronto)

Senior UI Designer

Capco is a distinctly and positively different place to work. Much more than consultants, we are active participants in the global financial services industry. Our passionate business and technology professionals enjoy a unique environment where they are actively encouraged to apply intellect, innovation, experience and teamwork. We are dedicated to fully supporting our world class clients as they respond to challenges and opportunities in: Banking, Capital Markets, Finance Risk & Compliance, Insurance, and Wealth and Investment Management, and Energy. Experience Capco for yourself at capco.com

Let’s Talk About You

You want to Own Your Career. You want to work closely with our clients within Capco’s Innovation and Design practice to improve their user experience across customer and employee-facing apps and online platforms.

Let’s Get Down To Business

Capco is looking for Senior UI designer with experience in the financial services or government ministry sector to join our Innovation & Design practice. Any applicants must have extensive UI design and interface design reflected in their portfolio.

About the Role

As the Senior UI Designer, you will work hand-in-hand with technologists and analysts at Capco and our clients to create high-fidelity UI designs for the team to build-out the applications and create experiences that are competitive and user-friendly. You will work with technologists to build out the interface and interactions, with hand-off meetings and ongoing design support as needed. When required, you will research interaction and UI designs in order to inform the design decisions and direction of products, services, and experiences to ensure that user centred design principles are being applied. We collaborate constantly to share learnings and brainstorm solutions. You will also educate clients on the value of great UI design, design accessibility, and balance rigor with speed when delivering work.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with clients and the Innovation & Design team to improve the user experience for customers and employees
• Collaborate with specialists across different teams to deliver the best solutions for our clients.
• Brainstorm solutions to tough client problems, speaking up and sharing your knowledge
• Collaborate on and influence the different stages of a digital product—this includes shaping deliverable scope, contributing to internal and external strategy, designing the digital experience for the end-user
• Work closely with product and business teams, as well as other designers and researchers, to identify important visual, interface, and experience design decisions

About You

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of industry experience in digital design role.
• Ability to lead and mentor junior/intermediate UI resources to ensure work is consistent, usable and on time.
• Strong online portfolio demonstrating a range of relevant work is essential.
• Experience in an agile team environment is a benefit.
• Proficient with industry standard tools (e.g. e.g. Figma, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch).
• ‪Strong communications skills to clearly articulate - and evangelize - solutions
• Solid understanding of user experience design principles.
• Ability to use, create and maintain a design system
• Apply brand design guidelines and user interface best practices appropriately to create innovative solutions that meet user and business needs
• Must have understanding of accessible design (A, AA, AAA standards)
• Strong organizational skills used to prioritize, multi-task, and meet tight deadlines.
• Experience with creating high-quality, high fidelity UI designs directly from requirements or wireframes.
• A creative imagination coupled with attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build good working relationships.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Apply usability & experience best practices to design and map out framework of applications, backed with findings through design research & ensuring that user centred design principles are being applied appropriately to create innovative solutions that meet user and business needs.
• The ability to support a project from start to finish
• The ability to think strategically and connect design thinking back to specific business use cases
• Strong influencing, negotiation and communication skills (written, verbal, presentation) with the ability to be a thought partner/coach to clients and internal team

Nice to have

• Experience working with large-scale data in mixed-method studies
• Working knowledge of statistics and experimental design
• Fluent with French language
• Experience in the financial services industry
• Experience in government ministry industry

Professional experience is important. But it’s paramount you share our belief in disruptive innovation that puts clients ahead in a tough market. From Day One, your key skill will be to perceive new and better ways of doing things to give your clients an unfair advantage.

Now Take the Next Step 

If you’re looking forward to progressing your career with us, then we’re looking forward to receiving your application.

Capco is well known for its thought leadership and client-centric model that distinguishes it from other consulting firms. Capco’s strong technology and digital knowledge base, it’s global experience of the Financial Service enables us to deliver projects from strategy through to delivery. We are committed to providing new areas of expertise from which our clients will greatly benefit.

We have:

• Access to industry-focused talent globally
• Ability to leverage best-of-breed, innovative products and solutions for complex architecture and large-scale transformation
• Extended global geographic market reach
• Ability to capitalize on our client footprint and deep domain expertise within financial services

For more information about Capco, visit www.Capco.com.