Senior Product Designer (Independent Contractor Agreement)

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Company Description

Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) one of the world's premier sports and entertainment companies, owns the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL), Toronto Raptors (NBA), Toronto FC (MLS), Toronto Argonauts (CFL), Toronto Marlies (AHL), Raptors 905 (NBA D-League), TFC II (USL) and Raptors Uprising Gaming Club, the Toronto Raptors Esports franchise in the NBA 2K League. Its charitable arm, MLSE Foundation, focuses on funding initiatives to support youth through sport and recreational programs. In 2017 MLSE Foundation, with support of community and corporate partners, built MLSE LaunchPad, a 42,000-sq. ft. space dedicated to programming that support its four Pillars: Healthy Body, Healthy Mind, Ready For School and Ready For Work.

MLSE’s common purpose is to unite and empower employees to deliver extraordinary moments to our fans and each other.

Who We Are

We celebrate the diversity, individuality, and personality of our peers, striving to be the best in class, in every class. We believe in Respect, Resilience, Commitment, and Ambition. We work for, with, and around the people that inspire us to try, persist, and achieve more.

Our work goes beyond games, seasons, trophies, and tours. Our success is measured by more than a scoreboard. Our team is stronger when we stand united. We create, we celebrate, we build, and we become better!

What we choose to do next, means everything! It defines greatness, builds character, makes history, and brings the world to its feet.

So, are you in?

Job Description

As a Senior Product Designer, you will be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, wireframes and prototypes. You will also design the overall functionality of the product and iterate upon it to ensure a great user experience. The Senior Product designer is guided by user-centric design and is someone who can produce logical flows from one step to the next for the best user experience. MLSE is looking for a designer who prioritizes ease-of-use, responsive, and instinctive layout in meeting the end user’s goals while optimizing how they interact with our products.

To thrive in this role, you must be a self-starter with extensive experience in the corporate and technology sectors. You love variety, work independently and command excellent communication skills and understand and appreciate the value of team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Work with Product Managers, business stakeholders and fans to understand problems that need to be solved
  • Facilitate research, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences for digital products
  • Design and deliver wireframes, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
  • Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions
  • Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
  • Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your design

Qualifications

  • Minimum 5+ years of work experience in design
  • Strong portfolio, including depth of experience in web or mobile applications
  • Strong data-driven approach in critical design decisions
  • Outstanding record of project success, both in results achieved and in use of professional methodologies inclusive of agile methods.
  • Demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional teams and communications with various stakeholders (Technical and non-technical)
  • Designed solutions for varied internal/and external stakeholders of customers
  • Strong and current awareness of external technology trends and best practices

Additional Information

Please apply by: April 8, 2022

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Partnership will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in the job application process. If you have difficulty using our online application system and you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email [email protected]. Please note this email is only for accommodation requests. Resumes sent to this email address will not be considered.