Introduction

It’s an exciting time in GovTech as the digital revolution has fully taken hold and design and innovation are at the forefront. You will be part of developing our design practice, as we pave the way for existing and new product offerings. 

The ideal candidate is someone who can bring ingenuity and apply a proactive approach to solving meaningful design problems through innovation and design thinking. Our work environment appeals to self-motivated, flexible team players that have great interpersonal skills and lots of curiosity. We encourage hybrid talents with multidisciplinary expertise. 

Company

Regulatory, Compliance & Government Technology 

Based in Toronto, Canada with operations expanding rapidly into the United States and Europe, Thentia offers a range of enterprise technology solutions designed specifically for regulation, compliance and government needs across a variety of professions and occupations. 

Thentia has consulted with both self-regulated and private business clients to develop a sophisticated process; ensuring our custom solutions are designed, architected and quality-assured in a timely and professional manner. We also employ former regulatory professionals as we know their expertise and insight is invaluable to ensure all variances in client legislation and process are understood and represented accurately. 

With a significant share of the professional regulatory market in Canada and key business compliance clients both in Canada and around the globe, we continue to learn, adapt, and expand the scope of custom capabilities to meet the niche requirements of our industry. 

Every organization is unique, and our mission is to constantly improve and refine our platform by keeping pace with changes in regulatory practice and supporting technologies, and to provide complete solutions that are secure, user-friendly, responsive, comprehensive, and accessible. 

Our commitment 

At Thentia, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. 

Position Overview

Reporting to the VP + Chief Design Officer, you will be responsible for defining, evangelizing, and driving the implementation of the overall design vision for Thentia’s products. You will contribute towards Thentia’s UI/UX principles and will maintain UI/UX frameworks for all our products. 

You have deep experience and practical expertise in Mobile/In-browser User Interface Design. A balanced understanding of strategy, usability, interaction, and visual design is a must. You obsess over details that impact the experience as a whole and insist on iterating until we’ve gotten it right. You see feedback as a good thing. You’re a great story teller who is at ease presenting and discussing work with clients and stakeholders. You will mentor, guide, and provide support for members of the experience design team. We are looking for a profoundly engaged and experienced designer to spearhead new creative and strategic thinking. 

You know the experience design process and develop a complete range of UI/UX artifacts. You are adept at working with multiple stakeholders and comfortable working collaboratively with development team members, as well as those from diverse disciplines and industries. 

Company

Minimum Requirements 

• Minimum 5 – 10 years of experience as an UI-UX Designer or similar role 
• Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in relevant field 
• Impressive portfolio that demonstrates a variety of projects, exploration, design styles, platforms and processes and communicates the goals, process, and outcomes of your work 
• Experience leading design workshops to help define our product’s strategy, then guiding that through iteration, testing, shipping and beyond 
• Experience with interaction design using tools such as Principle, Lottie, After Effects, HTML/CSS, Framer.js, etc. 
• Experienced with end-to-end, human-centered Product Design 
• Market and user research, information architecture, wireframing, user flows, user experience design, interface design 
• prototyping and user testing a must 
• Proficiency with  Figma, Sketch, Photoshop + Illustrator (Creative Cloud Suite), Invision or Keynote 
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to convey and debate design strategy 
• Passionate about empathizing with users' needs, motivations and behaviors, and can translate that empathy into actionable deliverables 
• Strong organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines 
• Your attention to detail lets nothing slip through the cracks 
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Nice to haves 

• A passion for illustration, copywriting, photography, public speaking or any other special skills  
• Coding knowledge — HTML5, CSS3, .JS 
• Design team mentorship experience 

Perks 

• Family Medical Benefits  
• Sick / Family Leave 
• Flexible remote working