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Senior Manager, User Experience (Kinaxis)

Job Opening: Senior Manager, User Experience

Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Kinaxis® is a leading edge software company located in Ottawa, Canada. Our RapidResponse® on demand software provides business solutions to some of the largest companies in the world. Many of their products you likely use in your everyday life: it might be the car you drive (Ford, yep they’re a customer), the camera you take pictures/video with (Nikon and GoPro, they’re customers too), the phone you have in your hand all day (Samsung, them too), the shoes you wear (ASICS), critical medications you take (Bristol Myers-Squibb) or the ATM you use at your bank (NCR). These are just a few of the household names that use our industry leading technology and solutions. For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com/.

User Experience and Design is HIGH PROFILE at Kinaxis. Our design team works side-by-side with Product Management and Development teams to build visual, elegant, efficient and intuitive interfaces that push the boundaries of our business solutions to rival those of leading consumer applications.

If you are looking to make a difference, enjoy challenging work, and want to contribute to next-generation world class technology, then Kinaxis is the place for you! With the stability of an established company, combined with the passion and innovation of a start-up, Kinaxis is a GREAT place to work. Our success and growth means we are expanding. We are currently looking for: Senior Manager, User Experience

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Product Designer (Kinaxis)

Job Opening: Product Designer

Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Kinaxis® is a leading edge software company located in Ottawa, Canada. Our RapidResponse® on demand software provides business solutions to some of the largest companies in the world. Many of their products you likely use in your everyday life: it might be the car you drive (Ford, yep they’re a customer), the camera you take pictures/video with (Nikon and GoPro, they’re customers too), the phone you have in your hand all day (Samsung, them too), the shoes you wear (ASICS), critical medications you take (Bristol Myers-Squibb) or the ATM you use at your bank (NCR). These are just a few of the household names that use our industry leading technology and solutions.

User Experience and Design is HIGH PROFILE at Kinaxis. Our design team works side-by-side with Product Management and Development teams to build visual, elegant, efficient and intuitive interfaces that push the boundaries of our business solutions to rival those of leading consumer applications.

If you are looking to make a difference, enjoy challenging work, and want to contribute to next-generation world class technology, then Kinaxis is the place for you! With the stability of an established company, combined with the passion and innovation of a start-up, Kinaxis is a GREAT place to work. Our success and growth means we are expanding. We are currently looking for: Product Designer

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User Experience Manager/Director (Ottawa)

Position: User Experience Manager/Director

Location: Ottawa

The UX Manager/Director is the senior user experience advocate that guides the creation of intentional experiences through conducting user experience strategy, research, testing and design for both Akendi internal and external clients. You strategize and problem solve to ensure that the work that is delivered to clients will meet project objectives, follows the Akendi process and inspires them with perfectly executed user experience insights and solutions.

You guide a team of Akendians with skills and experience related to user experience research and design and other related industry fields and manages their projects to produce final outcomes that reflect positively on Akendi and our clients. You are an ambassador for the Akendi brand and a key stakeholder in user centred UX research and design related decision-making, ensuring state of the art approaches, methods and assures the quality of Akendi user centred research, testing, information and interaction design. You participate in the execution of UX research and UX design projects for websites, software interfaces, mobile interfaces, hardware interfaces is a plus, from kick-off to completion.

You possess a deep understanding of user research techniques, information design and interaction design principles and approaches with core strengths in information plus interaction design and user research. You work with a deep understanding of user-centered research and how to apply it successfully to final user experiences.

You ensure that projects meet the requirements of the client and are completed on time and within budget while respecting client business goals as well as being responsible for maintaining day-to-day client relationships. You oversee the execution of projects from external vendors such as recruiters, freelancers, front end coders and coordinates estimates, scheduling, production and delivery of final deliverables of these vendors. You participate in delivering Akendi’s training courses related to UX, as well as in making recommendations for changes or updates to the training curriculum and program.

Key Responsibilities

  • Contribute to development of “best in class” UX research and design services
  • Manage user experience team, project planning and work flow
  • Manage day-to-day responsibility to user experience team and outside vendors as required
  • Plan and estimate effort for projects
  • Contribute to blog writing
  • Deal with conflict management and resolution
  • Personal appraisals, year plan creation, coaching and support team members in growing their career
  • Responsible for the proper application of UCD principles, Akendi’s Experience Thinking process
  • Be fully knowledgeable in user centered design and how the Akendi experience thinking process fits with UCD
  • Provide quality assurance of research and design deliverables
  • Contribute to the development of the user experience team’s culture and quality standards
  • Elevate the level of the work coming out of the user experience team
  • Educate project teams from other disciplines on the user centered design process and its value
  • Communicate the user centred approach, process, value and experience thinking to clients
  • Be an Akendi user experience ambassador
  • Take a supporting role in Akendi’s UX training program, creating curriculum, course materials
  • Manage partner relationships
  • Limited project travel as required (5-10%)
  • Manage multiple deadlines and conflicting priorities
  • Deliver UX training courses and make recommendations for curriculum updates

Experience

6+ years of working in the UX field. Advanced degree in UX related disciplines:

  • Cognitive science
  • Computer science
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Human Factors
  • Psychology

Please send your resume to humanresources [at] akendi.com

Thank you to all applicants, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

About Akendi

Akendi is a user experience & service design firm, leveraging equal parts user experience expertise and creative design excellence. We provide insights and analyses about user behaviour, combine this knowledge with inspired creative design, and scientifically architect the user’s experience to meet an organisation’s goals. The result is informed product and service experiences that enable organisations to increase their outreach, engage users, and improve customer experiences.

www.akendi.com

UI Developer Team Lead

Organization: Tiree Consulting Inc.

As the UI Developer Team Lead, your main responsibilities will be to lead a team to develop leading edge, user-centered solutions for  eCommerce clients through both front and back and development expertise. You will be expected to develop new applications and functionality including modifying existing websites, micro-sites, and application sites for B2B and B2C web portals, develop and document functional specifications, convert system requirements into logical program designs, code modules and stable application systems. To achieve this, you will be working in a collaborative environment alongside Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, Team Leads and fellow Developers. Your contributions will enable to deliver world class, innovative, eCommerce solutions to its clients.

The Requirements

  • Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, or Information Technology, Graphic Design or equivalent
  • Experience in creating HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery
  • 6+ years of relevant work experience in web development or similar
  • Verbal and written communication in fluent English
  • Strong skills in time management, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and superior attention to detail

Your Qualifications

  • Strong Skills implementing UI design using HTML 5, CSS 3, Precompiled CSS – LESS / SCSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Consuming JSON web-services, AJAX.
  • Experience with Responsive Design
  • Good understanding and knowledge in Frameworks like: Twitter Bootstrap and others
  • Experience building JavaScript Libraries/Plugins
  • Understanding/Exposure to Java Server Pages and JSTL or PHP and ASP
  • Basic knowledge of Object Oriented Programming and MVC
  • Basic knowledge of Image Manipulation Tooling like: PHOTOSHOP
  • Experience of Version Control Systems like GIT
  • Knowledge of Issue Tracking Systems like Jira
  • English Language (Fluent)

Preferred:

  • Strong creative and visual design skills including colour theory, typography, layout, user interface design and production techniques
  • Experience with ATG or hybris
  • Experience with eCommerce application development.

Interested candidates can contact Kent Blackburn:

Kent Blackburn CSP
Managing Director
Tiree Consulting Inc.
424 Parkdale Ave., Suite 200
Ottawa, ON K1Y 1H1

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