Senior UI/UX Designer

You are seeking an opportunity to make a difference, bring your insights and your creative process to a unique product and sector. You want to join a rapidly scaling company that’s at the forefront of leading-edge AI technology.

Toronto, Ontario

Canvass Analytics

<p class="font_8">Canvass Analytics is a leader in automating intelligent industrial operations through its AI-powered predictive analytics platform. Canvass provides an enterprise grade platform for industrial customers to implement and scale automated industrial operations in a matter of days, using its pre-built predictive models pipeline.</p> <p class="font_8">Today, Fortune 500 companies are using the platform to automate complex production processes, generate new revenue streams and create new markets by producing higher grade products. Canvass Analytics&rsquo; customers include leading automotive, aerospace, energy, and food and agriculture companies globally.</p> https://www.canvass.io/

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Overview: <p><strong>A leader in automating intelligent industrial operations.</strong></p> <p>At Canvass Analytics, we are disrupting the way industrial operational data is being used to make critical business decisions. Our leading edge AI-powered analytics platform transforms plant operations, giving them predictive insights that enable autonomous operations.</p> <p>In mere days, the Canvass AI software platform can enable industrial companies to automate complex production processes, improve quality, reduce energy consumption, generate new revenue streams and create new markets by producing higher grade products. Canvass Analytics&rsquo; customers include leading energy, manufacturing, food and ag, oil and gas, and metals and mining companies around the globe.</p> <p>Our business is founded by a team of seasoned revolutionaries who are building the next generation of AI-powered analytics to transform the Industrial industry. As we accelerate rapidly, we are constantly looking for driven and ambitious innovators to join our team.</p> <p><strong>Who we need</strong></p> <p>We are adding an experienced Senior UI/UX Designer to the team; someone who wants to use their creativity and understanding of the human experience to influence the look and feel of products at a global AI software company. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on the successful delivery of a world-class product that gets the job done better than anything else out there - by making it an intuitive and joyful experience. Reporting to our CTO, you will work closely with Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Product to make that possible. This is an opportunity to shape a product from the early days, take ownership for major product design decisions, and work at a fast and responsive pace.</p> <p><strong>Who you are</strong></p> <p>You have deep user experience and user interface design experience. Ideally, you&rsquo;ve worked on enterprise products which encompass a lot of data visualization. You want to apply your broad and deep skills &mdash; designing beautiful graphics and intuitive workflows, researching, and prototyping &mdash; and take it a step further, testing ideas with customers, providing feedback to product, working closely with the Development team and seeing your work go-live. You are hungry and quick to learn. You want to be the owner of great user experiences that make a measurable impact on our customers&rsquo; business.</p>
Responsibilities: <p><strong>What&rsquo;s in it for you</strong></p> <p>You want to work on a UI frontier, where the rules of the game are not defined yet; implementing incremental, but essential improvements as well as big new concepts. You are seeking an opportunity to make a difference, bring your insights and your creative process to a unique product and sector. You want to join a rapidly scaling company that&rsquo;s at the forefront of leading-edge AI technology. You want to be the person that increases customer engagement and, as a result, directly grows our market share. You want to:</p> <ul> <li>Own the design process. You want to create and maintain a well thought-out design system that scales as the company grows and is easy to implement by developers. You will gather requirements, build-out concepts, and create detailed designs. You will work with Developers to create the interfaces and test them with users to learn, adapt, and improve.</li> <li>Figure things out on your own. We are a fast-moving startup and expect everyone to be a self-starter who finds out what needs to be done, then goes out and does it.</li> <li>Collaborate across the team. You want to play a critical role establishing preliminary design processes to align cross-functional teams. You want to contribute to strategic decisions, working with the Engineering, Product, and Executive teams. You will foster relationships with internal and external team members as you work closely with everyone from our CEO to individual contributors on different teams. You will be a strong advocate for our users, while balancing the needs of other people and teams in the company.</li> </ul>
Requirements: <p><strong>Our new UI/UX Designer has:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The creative experience. You have experience working on products featuring complex data (visualization) and concepts. You have several years of proven success in a design role and a portfolio of work demonstrating your ability to design, ship and refine software products with examples of interaction and visual design work.</li> <li>The technical skills. You can turn your designs into understandable visualizations. You have a broad pallet of user-centered design skills including: <ul> <li>Graphic and visual design.</li> <li>User-centered design and ideation.</li> <li>User interface design and prototyping.</li> <li>User research, need finding, and product validation.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Passion. You are passionate about not just improving the user experience but creating joyful ones where none exist. You want to balance your artistry with logic; your soft skills with your technical knowledge. You are genuinely interested in new ideas and new technology.</li> <li>Communication. You can influence and lead a design. You have outstanding presentation skills and you can clearly articulate design decisions to various internal stakeholders. You can take a consulting approach to gathering requirements and understanding needs. Your written and verbal one-on-one communication skills, including the ability to listen and provide a real solution to a client&rsquo;s issues make you unique.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Why join us?</strong></p> <p>Canvass Analytics is using AI to automate operations for the Industrial sector. We are changing the way the Industry thinks and uses AI, and it&rsquo;s getting noticed everywhere. We&rsquo;ve been recognized by Network World as a Top 10 Hot AI-Powered IoT Startup and by Canadian Innovation Exchange as a Top 20 Most Innovative Canadian Company. Our Founder and CEO, Humera Malik, is one of the 2018 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Ones to Watch Award Winners. Canvass is backed by Google&rsquo;s Gradient Ventures.</p> <p>What&rsquo;s it like to work at Canvass? This is a place where everyone is all in. From the CEO to the newest hire, we all pitch in where needed and do what it takes. We are a relatively flat organization where everyone is invited to the table, to listen in and be part of the conversation and decisions. We appreciate the efforts, innovation, and results of our team.</p> <p>If you want to be an agent of change and make a real difference ; if you want to work with and talk about AI and IIoT as part of your everyday life, join Canvass Analytics now.</p> <p><strong>Apply now</strong></p> <p>Think this job is meant for you but worried you don&rsquo;t have it all? If you feel you meet 70% of the qualifications listed and you are an innovative team player, express your interest here and we promise to consider your full profile. You can also follow us on&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/CanvassAI">Twitter</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/canvassanalytics">LinkedIn</a>&nbsp;to learn more about us.</p> <p>Canvass Analytics welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available by request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.</p>