Senior Staff UX Designer (6 Months Term)

Location CA-ON-Ottawa
ID 2024-31448
Category
Engineering
Position Type
Temporary
Remote
No

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About Kinaxis  

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis. 

 

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.   

 

At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers. 

Location our office in Ottawa, Canada 

Duration - 6 Months Term

About the role

As a Senior Staff UX Designer Kinaxis you will create delightful and meaningful experiences for Kinaxis users. You will be responsible for pushing the boundaries of what our enterprise solutions can achieve, ensuring our product is not only functional but also intuitive and transformative for our customers.

 

You are a seasoned professional design guru with in-depth experience designing scalable, empowering, and modern experiences for product features. You will work closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to refine requirements and produce “Wow!” design solutions that meet business goals and spark joy.

 

We are committed to exceptional user experiences, and at the heart of our approach is Design Thinking, a methodology that fuels our creative process and product development. You follow a human-centric design process that encourages ideation, rapid prototyping, iterative feedback, and empathetic user experiences.

 

Join us in our mission to revolutionize enterprise software with unparalleled UX design, propelling businesses forward through smart, beautiful, and user-focused solutions! If you're passionate about designing beautiful, user-centered solutions and eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic, collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you.

What you will do

  • Use a collaborative design process from ideation to execution, incorporating user feedback, and business requirements to create intuitive and transformative user experiences.
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
  • Host and facilitate Design Thinking workshops and brainstorming sessions to solve user experience challenges.
  • Craft user personas, journey maps, and storyboards to guide design strategies and decisions.
  • Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.

What we are looking for

  • Education in HCI, industrial design, visual design, Psychology, or equivalent experience.
  • 7-10+ years of UX design experience with a strong portfolio showcasing your UX/UI design skills.
  • Strong command of UX/UI design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Miro, Illustrator).
  • Exceptional communication, presentation, and analytical skills.
  • Expertise in facilitating workshops.
  • Familiarity with agile UX methodologies.
  • Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills to effectively share the UX vision.
  • A creative and strategic mindset.

And this will make you stand out

The ideal candidate is a passionate champion for the user, with a proven track record of delivering innovative, user-centered solutions.

 

  • Experience conducting user research and usability studies.
  • Experience working with complex enterprise cloud SaaS applications.
  • Hands on experience with agile UX design practices.
  • You use generative AI to boost productivity and design quality

 

Learn more about the Kinaxis UX design team here: https://www.kinaxis.com/en/product-user-experience

 

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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more. 

 

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more. 

 

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:

 

  • Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
  • Flexible work options
  • Physical and mental well-being programs
  • Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
  • Mentorship programs and training and career development
  • Recognition programs and referral rewards
  • Hackathons

 

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com. Kinaxis strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply to our welcoming community. We strive to make our website and application process accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. This contact information is for accessibility requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

 

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