Senior Product Designer, Scotiabank

Requisition ID: 192632
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

We are seeking a talented and experienced Senior Product Designer to join our dynamic Advice+ team. In this team you'll work closely with product managers, dedicated researchers, developers and designers across the platform to provide innovative financial products to our clients. As we continue to reshape the Advice+ toolbox, to are looking for someone to lead numerous exciting initiatives from discovery through to delivery.

Is this role right for you?

• You will participate and influence the design decisions for banking digital experiences that impacts our customers every day.
• You will understand our customers' motivations and needs, leveraging rigorous design research and usability principles along with your intuitive design sense.
• You will consider customer interactions and journeys and act as an advocate for their constant improvement through accessible and inclusive design principles and implementation.
• You will partner and collaborate with product management, Engineering, research, designers across multiple platforms and other key players to envision and build products that make our customer's experience useful, engaging, and effective while supporting our business goals.
• You will consume and contribute to a design system, and advocate for its usage.
• You will understand our users, leveraging rigorous design research and usability principles as well as your intuitive design sense.
• You will meticulously consider user interactions and journeys and act as an advocate for the constant improvement of both.
• You bring a high level of technical acuity with an understanding of front-end technologies; you will need to understand limitations and constraints, as well as when to push boundaries.
• You are open, persuasive, engaging and love to have a good laugh - you also know when it's important to get serious and be a champion for the end-user. You participate actively in a collaborative, innovative, challenging, and supportive team environment.
• You will independently plan for upcoming deliverables. You will deliver high quality results in a timely manner.
• You will run and participate in design jams and workshops with other designers and stakeholders.
• You will produce compelling visual deliverables to illustrate desired customer experiences and provide detailed specifications for software developers.
• You will provide feedback and coaching to other Designers at different levels of experience.
• You will drive Lean/agile UX approaches pervasively throughout the product lifecycle; helping designers to become the collaborative glue that facilitates decisions across the dimensions of value, usability, and feasibility.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• 5+ years of experience designing for and maintaining responsive web and native mobile platforms.
• A portfolio of work (professional and/or personal) which presents the story of projects you have worked on, your role, and examples of your problem-solving methods from low-fidelity sketches to detailed designs and your story-telling skills.
• Post-secondary education in interaction design, or a closely related field
• Expertise in the use of Figma for digital design and prototyping.
• Ability to work within the constraints of a Design System with flexibility, and a desire to push existing standards to the next level by contributing back to our Design System library.
• Ability to communicate concepts, ideas and strategies using rapid visual design techniques.
• A positive and resilient personality. You must be able to embrace feedback and have a desire for continuous iteration and improvement.
• Comfortable working in an independent, self-guided manner
• Comfortable collaborating with other designers and stakeholders
• Excellent leadership, communication, and teamwork skills
• Effectively able to prioritize and pivot in response to evolving business constraints and new requirements.
• Ability to plot and map a user journey from product discovery through enrollment, down multiple engagement routes and through to journey completion.
• A fast learner who has an appetite to learn what's behind both simple and complex financial solutions.
• A demonstrable history of applying design thinking tenets and user centered design principles to design problems.
• Expert understanding of Human-centred Design practices, including Design thinking methodologies, research, and user testing protocols, as well as Agile frameworks.
• A high level of technical acuity with a thorough understanding of front-end technologies and will factor it into your work limitations and constraints knowing when to push boundaries.
• Studies and/or experience in complementary fields to Product Design, like visual design, animation, research, data analysis, applied arts, writing and communications, etc.

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove, and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Work arrangements: Hybrid

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Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.
At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.