Description:
We're a performance driven Digital Agency with a focus on purpose-driven nonprofits and social sector. We're passionate in making the world a better place.
This role is responsible responsible for building and maintaining a robust website that conveys industry leadership and inspiration. You will work closely with a management team to design and develop a company website and ensure incremental enhancements long-term.
The primary responsibility will be creation of wireframe, prototyping, UI, UX, and web development of a new website project with a focus on user-centric design accessibility on both mobile and desktop. We embrace an integration of strategy, experience, design, development, and analytics in driving visual compositions and website functions.
The ideal candidate for this the Full Stack UX Designer & Web Developer role is an advocate of best practices and is highly proficient in using Adobe Photoshop, Figma, Webflow and Wordpress.
Responsibilities:
UX Design (45%)
- Conduct user research and management needs analysis to determine core demographics of users develop project strategy accordingly
- Create layouts and wireframes for the website design
- Design user journey by creating user stories and user flows
- Design website pages with user interactions
- Design and/or source website elements such as icons, photos, thumbnails
- Conduct usability testing to ensure user centric design that is accessible on mobile and desktop
Front End Web Development (45%)
- Develop, create, implement UX led website and landing pages
- Adopt a mobile-first speed responsive design
- Maintenance and updates of existing web pages
- Ensure UX implementation of load transitions, animations, resolution responsive designs
- Implementation of technical UI/UX designs with optimal website speed performance alignment
- Perform quality assurance testing to ensure optimal display and speed on various browsers and devices
Back End Web Development (10%)
- Maintaining code from planning to building back-end website elements such as Forms, API Integrations
- Develop and maintain funnel, ecommerce, mailing, analytics codes and integrations for merchandise store, email tags, redirects, payment forms, user forms
- Develop high quality integrations with analytics tools, mailing lists, API
- Build first-party data integrations in the new cookieless world
As Needed (5%)
- Configure domain and web servers for staging or production
- Configure domain name and dns records & authentication records
- Minor page coding or configuration fixes
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 5 years demonstrated track record experience in creating and implementing UI and UX Design, Web Development with a top-notch portfolio
- Full stack in-depth experience with use of front-end languages and libraries – HTML, CSS, LESS, SASS, PHP, Javascript, XML, jQuery, Angular, React, Laravel, Bootstrap
- Strong proficiency with Figma for UX prototyping tool
- Strong proficiency with Photoshop to design and edit web elements
- Strong knowledge of integration and using website-based APIs
- In-depth experience with CMS platforms – Wordpress, Webflow, Shopify
- Experience with Google Analytics GA4, Meta Conversions API, Google Tag Manager
- Experience with code versioning tools such as Git, Bitbucket
- Working knowledge of WCAG, WAI-ARIA is an asset
- Working knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, Kanban, Scrum is an asset
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or post-graduate education in Marketing, Business, Design, Computer Science, Digital Marketing or equivalent
- Solid understanding of user-centered design, usability, accessibility and testing methodologies
- Solid understanding of responsive design and the ability to design for both mobile and desktop layouts
- Solid understanding and ability to create UI assets for design porting to development
- Solid understanding and ability to both code and implement website page designs
- Demonstrated ability to advocate and implement best practices website response and animations
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects or campaigns at the same time in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, across different time zones
- Strong communications skills, including experience communicating effectively within a team environment
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
- Passionate about all things UX, design, innovation
- Knowledge of ranking factors, search engine algorithms, backlinks, internal linking, optimized content, layout is an asset