UX Product Designer

Job Title: UX Product Designer
Work Location: BMO Place 2x/week in office
Start Date: April 14th, 2025
Contract Length: Ending on Oct 31st, 2025
BR: $95-100/hour
Interview Times:
Wednesday March 19th, After 11:30am (rest of day I’ve blocked)

Thursday March 20th, 9am-11:30am

45min-1hr is ideal

Round 1: just Ben (or with 1 design peer). Behavioral + portfolio mix interview.

Round 2: panel-style.

Project Need:
Expanding digital wealth portfolio to US. Going to be working with the Canadian digital team but working on US project to support UX/product design for wealth platforms "Gateway" in the US.

Must Haves:
- Looking for a replica of Mukkaram (current TSG contractor on Ben's team)
-Articulate design exp in a large organization
-Technical Design Skills with Figma
-Wealth Management Exp (strongly desired but not 100% essential)
-Agile Methodology

Role and Responsibilities:
    • Support our growing Digital Wealth portfolio
    • Create holistic design solutions for online banking experiences across multiple platforms  
    • Shape experiences through hands-on contribution, while ensuring consistency and coordination across design teams    
    • Work side by side with customers, product managers, developers, and fellow designers 
    • Lead design sprints, mentor junior designers, and guide design efforts from concept through user research, development, and iterative feedback loops 
    • Balance business goals, customer needs, and technological capabilities to create solutions that are scalable and future-proofed
    • Rapidly sketch and prototype ideas in order to share concepts and learn from users 
    • Translate customer data and insights into design decisions, improvements, and opportunities  
    • Drive creation of customer journeys, UX strategy, and future state visions 
    • Produce UX deliverables such as user flows, site maps, and wireframes
    • Communicate design rationale and evangelize user-centered design practices
    • Contribute to planning, conducting, and analyzing usability testing and other user research  
    • Ensure use of existing design patterns, style guides, and accessibility guidelines, while contributing to their continuous improvement
    • Experience working with front-end developments teams as well as the skill to communicate your ideas clearly
    
Qualifications:
        - Degree in Computer Science, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or other relevant education
        - Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience designing digital products (strongly desired but 3yrs for a good person is ok)
        - Expertise in interaction design and information architecture
        - In-depth knowledge of UX best practices, user-centered design, and design thinking
        - 2-3 years of In-depth knowledge of Visual Design best practices, interaction design, user interface design, web technologies, prototyping with the ability to produce deliverables such as pixel-perfect mockups that follow BMO brand design standards.
        - Conceptual thinking, ability to establish direction and creative concepts and work to evolve designs under guidance of UX team and Product owners.
        - Firm understanding of responsive web and mobile app design
        - Experience working across the project life cycle, within cross-functional teams, and using lean/agile design practices
        - Proficient with design software such as Axure, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, InVision, etc.
        - Collaborative, team player with strong communication and presentation skills
        - Flexibility, adaptability, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
        - Familiar with capabilities of front end technologies (HTML,CSS, Java Script)
        - Financial industry experience would be an asset
        - Highly organized with demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects
        - Expertise in design software such as Figma (BMO only uses Figma now)
        - Familiarity with web analytics tools is a plus