Speer Technologies is Toronto based technology hub partnered with some of the largest technology incubators within the Greater Toronto Area. Our team consists of passionate innovators and open minded thinkers, with the drive to build unique technologies that are getting FDA approved, ADA approved or provisional patents. Speer focusses on building ground breaking technologies with partnerships in Italy, Germany, California and France. Partnering to build unique products allows our designers and developers to gain unique exposure to end to end product development lifecycles.
As a startup, we expect you to learn while delivering high quality designs and producing for our tight timelines with partners. Our fast paced environment provides exposure to many different industries, work environments and people improving your communication skills, technical and transferable skillset.
Speer’s goal is to collaborate with innovative brands to create a renown experience. We provide lots of opportunities for growth.
Speer is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will accommodate the needs of applicants under the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
Please advise Speer of any accommodations you may require to ensure your equal participation in the recruitment and selection process. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.
What You’ll Do
- Design beautiful interfaces for web and mobile digital products across different industries
- Share and revise your designs based on internal feedback and feedback from our partners as well as UX research and best practices
- Be involved in all aspects of product design, working closely with the team to execute the products efficiently
- Create high fidelity designs and prototypes for new projects
- Create a simple design system for new products
- Create logos and branding materials for our partners
- Occasionally create graphics, illustrations and social media assets internally for Speer and for our partners
- Research and stay on top of new design trends and best practices
Responsibilities:
- Deliver design iterations that meet deadlines and product requirements
- Take in constructive feedback and iterate to improve design concepts, aesthetic and usability
- Present and deliver iterations to the team in the form of a sharable link, design files or prototypes
- Take initiative to ask questions, research best practices and expose yourself to design resources available to you
- Work with the development team during design handoff to insure pixel perfect execution of the design
Skills Required:
- +3 years of experience working in mobile and web
- Bachelor’s degree in Design or similar program or UX/UI certificate course OR a current student pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Design or similar program or UX/UI certificate course
- Give and receive constructive feedback on your team’s work
- Stay organized and meet deadlines
- Able to interact professionally with a diverse group of people
- You have experience working with agile design processes, iterative prototyping
- Comfortable using tools like Adobe XD, Ai, photoshop, sketch, invision etc.
- Strong wiliness to learn, ask questions, seek guidance from your peers and improve your skills
- Strong understanding and execution of basic design principles
Preferred Skills:
- Enthused to work in an agile / high-paced environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Self-starter with initiative
- Keep your skills up-to-date and make recommendations on best practices for user experience, accessibility and more
- Effectively contribute suggestions and new ideas to improve the product’s design and usability
Ideally you will also have:
- An Agile mindset with experience working in Agile environment
- A spirit of collaboration and transparent communication
- A natural curiosity for new design trends, best practices and innovation
- Team spirit and a sense of humour is always great
- Experience or willingness to learn new skills like illustration, motion design, animation
- Desire to think outside the box and push your design skills to the next level
COVID-19 Considerations
We have shifted to an entirely virtual environment. Our team takes initiative and operates well independently or as teams so we've been working a blend of remote/in office since we've started Speer.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $60,000.00-$75,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Paid time off
- Vision care
- Wellness program
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Experience:
- Web Design: 3 years (preferred)
- Data visualization: 2 years (preferred)
- UX: 3 years (preferred)
- Mobile App Design: 3 years (preferred)
Work Location: Remote
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