Senior UX Designer

Who We Are

Sid Lee is a multidisciplinary creative collective striving to make a difference and celebrate culture with bold ideas. Its 700 professionals work as one team from offices in Montreal, Toronto, New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles and Seattle. Their mission is to create what matters through brand building, brand expression and brand experience. Its creative community also includes Yard, Digital Kitchen, BIMM and Haigo.

Alongside progressive clients, Sid Lee draws on its rich collection of disciplines, from design to data and experiential communication and technology to advertising and architecture, empowering its clients to outperform their competitors, earn the trust of their customers and increase their influence on culture.

Sid Lee is a member of kyu, a collective of top-tier global creative companies established by Hakuhodo DY Holdings. Sid Lee also imagined C2 Montréal, one of the largest creative-business conferences in the world.

Role of a Senior UX Designer

Working on the digital team, the Senior UX Designer aims to improve the user experience by creating user-friendly and effective interfaces. Using their creative and technical skills, they participate in the realization of projects of all sizes. Their communication skills allow them to understand client needs and their analytical mind bases their decisions on research and available data.

Responsibilities

• Deliver creative, intuitive and user-centered interfaces and customer journeys, and ensure usability throughout the experience.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders (VP and C-level) to execute on their customer journeys and digital strategies.
• Provide guidance to other disciplines to help ensure that their work meets the requirements of the project and delight users.
• Plan and lead user research and usability tests to help identify and solve usability and accessibility issues.
• Create and validate design prototypes.
• Build design system and create reusable patterns and components libraries.
• Follow-up on the final implementation of all features to ensure the proper execution of the user experience design.
• Act as a UX mentor to designers and advocate within Sid Lee.

Requirements

• 7+ years’ experience creating interfaces, large-scale digital experiences, or applications.
• Diploma in user experience, interactive design, graphic design, e-commerce, or any other relevant field.
• Digital-savvy and informed on innovations, trends and technologies in the digital space; expert understanding of the best approach to implement new strategies that impact outcomes and drive digital transformations.
• Extensive experience working closely with product managers to define the strategy and rationale for product features.
• Expert at designing a brand experience across multiple channels, including web, social, mobile, etc.
• Adobe Creative Suite, Figma are software you will use daily. Prototyping using Axure is a plus.
• Fluency in spoken and written French is required. Fluency in English, both spoken and written, to work with national and international clients and colleagues (50% of the time) is also required.

Key skills/competency

• User Experience (UX) Design
• Interface Design
• Customer Journey Mapping
• Usability Testing
• Design Systems
• Prototyping
• Client Collaboration
• Digital Strategy
• UX Mentorship
• Accessibility
• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Axure
• Multi-channel Design
• E-commerce