Job Description
About Kinaxis:
In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.
At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.
Learn more about the Kinaxis UX design team here: https://www.kinaxis.com/en/product-user-experience
About the team:
our office in Ottawa, Canada (Hybrid)
About the role:
#Senior
Why join Kinaxis?:
Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more.
About Kinaxis
Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.
In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.
At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.
Learn more about the Kinaxis UX design team here: https://www.kinaxis.com/en/product-user-experience
Location
our office in Ottawa, Canada (Hybrid)
About the role
Are you ready to shape the future of enterprise SaaS design? At Kinaxis we’re revolutionizing
how businesses solve their most complex challenges. As a Senior UX Designer, you’ll be at the
forefront of crafting intuitive, scalable, and transformative experiences for our cutting-edge
solutions.
This is your chance to work in a fast-moving environment where your designs will have a global
impact. Bring your creativity, strategic mindset, and passion for user-centric design to a role
where every decision you make directly influences our customer success.
As a Senior UX Designer you will create delightful and meaningful experiences for Kinaxis users.
You will be responsible for pushing the boundaries of what our enterprise solutions can
achieve, ensuring our product is not only functional but also intuitive for our customers.
We are committed to exceptional user experiences, and at the heart of our approach is Design
Thinking, a methodology that fuels our creative process and product development. You will
follow a human-centric design process that encourages product discovery, ideation, rapid
prototyping, iterative feedback, and empathetic user experiences.
What you will do
- Use a collaborative design process from product discovery to ideation to execution, incorporating user feedback, and business requirements to create intuitive and transformative user experiences.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
- Host and facilitate Design Thinking workshops and brainstorming sessions to solve user experience challenges.
- Craft user personas, journey maps, and storyboards to guide design strategies and decisions.
- Create rapid prototypes and high-fidelity designs.
- Use user testing to drive design iteration and achieve great design solutions.
- Leverage AI tools to elevate and accelerate the design process
What we are looking for
- Education in HCI, industrial design, visual design, Psychology, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of UX design experience with a strong portfolio showcasing your advanced product design skills.
- Strong command of UX/UI design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Miro, Axure).
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and analytical skills.
- Expertise in facilitating workshops.
- Familiarity with agile UX methodologies.
- Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills to effectively share the UX vision.
- Mastery of design systems.
- A creative and strategic mindset eager to work on a wide product vision.
- Experience using AI to boost productivity and design quality.
And this will make you stand out
- Experience conducting user research and usability studies.
- Experience working with complex enterprise cloud SaaS applications.
#Senior
Why join Kinaxis?:
Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.
Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more.
Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.
People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:
- Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
- Flexible work options
- Physical and mental well-being programs
- Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
- Mentorship programs and training and career development
- Recognition programs and referral rewards
- Hackathons
Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. Please note that this contact information is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used to inquire about application statuses.
Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description, to identify candidates whose education, experience and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.
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