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CIBC are hiring a

Sr. UX Designer

Were building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world.

We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing whats right for our clients. At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

What Youll Be Doing

As an integral part of the CIBCs Digital Platforms and Client Engagement groups Frontline Experience team, and reporting to the Sr. Manager, User Experience, the Sr. UX Designer will support and facilitate the development of CIBC Frontline experience across multiple digital properties.

The Sr. UX Designer is a master storyteller, user experience evangelist and creative problem solver. You can drive design objectives and deliver innovative concepts while maintaining brand & design standards to ensure cross-site consistency. Youre passionate about inclusive design, usability and performance. You enjoy keeping abreast on the latest design trends as well as collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver optimal design solutions and a cohesive/compelling experience for our clients.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Youll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where youll spend 1-2 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote.

How Youll Succeed

  • Concepts & Designs – As a Sr. UX Designer you will lead the development and manage the end-to-end UX/UI process to deliver creative digital design concepts and solutions for CIBC Frontline digital properties. This includes participating in design workshops, as well as developing storyboards, sketches/wireframes, prototypes, mockups and visual assets.
  • User Research & Usability Testing - Participate and contribute planning usability testing & stakeholder interviews with the intention of incorporating the feedback into concept and/or application development.
  • Standards & Guidelines – You will help define, create and maintain the CIBC Frontline design and standards documentation to help enforce CIBCs brand coherence, accessibility standards and cross-site consistency.
  • Project Delivery – Define and deliver the design component (e.g. wireframes, user workflows, and interaction rules) for all assigned projects by working collaboratively with key team members from various disciplines (e.g. editorial content, visual design, business analysis/product, development & quality assurance) within an agile/iterative design & development environment where timely delivery of design deliverables is critical.
  • Relationship Building - Build and manage complex stakeholder relationships, ensuring all partners and stakeholders are appropriately engaged for design-related deliverables. You will also act as mentor and coach to new team members and will collaborate with other Sr. Designers maturing our design practice.
  • Innovation and Design workshops - You will drive activities and tasks that promote innovations during the delivery cycles and will collaborate closely with UX Strategy on ideation and early project stages with the goal to achieve a smooth and continued transition into UX Delivery.

Who You Are

You have education and/or 8+ years of experience in Digital Design, UX Design and/or Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction or equivalent and have experience coordinating and leading Design Thinking Workshops at large scale with multidisciplinary teams.

You can demonstrate advanced expertise or knowledge in Figma, Sketch, Invision, user-centered design principles, UX research methods, mobile and responsive design, inclusive design and WCAG accessibility standards.

Youre digitally savvy. You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.

Your influence makes an impact. You know that relationships and networks are essential to success. You inspire outcomes by making yourself heard.

You put our clients first. You engage with purpose to find the right solutions. You go the extra mile because its the right thing to do.

Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program, defined benefit pension plan, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.

Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.

We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.

What you need to know

CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact Mailbox.careers-carrieres@cibc.com.

CIBC is committed to clarity in our hiring process. All roles posted are opportunities were actively recruiting for, unless stated otherwise.

You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.

We may ask you to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills test (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency). We use artificial intelligence tools during the recruitment process. Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us.

Job Location

Toronto-81 Bay, 27th Floor

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

Accessibility Standards, Digital Content, Group Problem Solving, Leadership, Persona Creation, Researching, User Behavior, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI) Design, Wireframing