Senior UI Designer
Job Description
Job title: Senior UI Designer
Company: Global Relay
Job description: Your Role:Global Relay’s enterprise applications have a substantial footprint in the messaging & archiving space for compliance. This role provides an excellent opportunity to help solve challenging problems and create incredible experiences that significantly impact high-profile customers.The UI Designer focuses on visually guiding the user through a product’s interface via interactive elements across multiple platforms (web, desktop and mobile). This will involve creating high-fidelity mock-ups, iconography, UI illustration and other graphic assets for a range of products and services. The UI Designer will be responsible for taking Global Relay’s Design System to the next level by delivering pixel-perfect designs that bring clarity and unity to our visual language.Working with other UI and UX Designers, Product Managers and Engineering teams in a highly customer-focused agile environment, you will be involved in the product development lifecycle from concept to delivery to help define our products’ vision.Your Job:
- Design and evolve the look and feel of Global Relay’s visual language
- Follow a Human Centred Design approach and adhere to UX best practices
- Apply with conviction the best principles of layout composition, typography, visual hierarchy and motion design
- Deliver pixel-perfect graphic assets that are aesthetically vibrant
- Lead and create user interfaces that are sleek and easy to use
- Translate high-level requirements and interaction flows into intuitive and functional user interfaces
- Communicate your design ideas with conviction within the UX team and non-creative stakeholders
- Develop storyboards, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes to communicate design ideas and solutions effectively
- Design and document new components and interaction patterns for Global Relay’s Design System
- Ensure new components and designs meet WCAG and WAI-ARIA accessibility standards
- Adhere to existing patterns and apply consistency accordingly
- Identify opportunities for UI improvement or differentiation
- Facilitate workshops to get cross-team alignment on new standards
- Support engineers focused on building the design system
- Measure and monitor the performance of the components you work on
- Champion and establish a solid UI practice and be accountable for the UI output
- Work alongside engineering teams to test and iterate on the interface design
- Guide engineering teams through the build and QA process
- Collaborate closely with other UI and UX Designers to find practical solutions to challenging workflows
- Coach and support junior UI designers in the team
About You:We’re looking for a UI designer with true artistic talent and a clean, strong visual aesthetic. Relevant training and work experience are important, but we’re really looking for your talent to shine through in the work you have done.
- 5+ years of experience doing visual/UI design for web, desktop and mobile applications
- Portfolio of relevant UI design work from shipped products/ apps/ services
- Bachelor’s degree in a design-related discipline is preferable
- Solid understanding of user-centred design best practices
- Strong typographic and colour theory knowledge
- Ability to create icons, illustrations and other graphic assets for the web
- Ability to create and quickly iterate on high-fidelity mock-ups
- Ability to create high-fidelity prototypes to communicate motion and screen transition
- Ability to communicate UI ideas verbally and visually in an efficient and clear manner
- Ability to take ownership and solve problems creatively
- Experience working with and contributing to design systems and component libraries
- Knowledge of responsive design and mobile design guidelines
- Knowledge of accessibility best practices and approaches
- Knowledge of conventional design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch etc.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to multi-task and keep organized in a dynamic environment
- Motion design experience is an asset
- Experience in an enterprise business environment and Agile is definitely an asset
