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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, under our Unified Communications products.

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 responsibilities:

• 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.

• 7+ years of experience doing visual/UI design for web, desktop and mobile applications
• Recent mobile experience with native apps
• 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