Ensemble is hiringUX/UI Designer

Full TimeUI/UX Design

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Ensemble Travel Group is a leading travel agency consortium of top-tier agencies throughout the U.S. and Canada that was established in 1968. Acquired by Navigatr Group in June 2022, Ensemble provides members with access to exclusive offers, unique hosted tours, partnerships and superior marketing opportunities with best-in-class suppliers, and proprietary travel platforms such as ADX that offers agents instant commission visibility, one click insurance and more to improve efficiencies and earnings. Ensemble maintains offices in Toronto and New York.

Navigatr Group is a privately held company that invests in travel companies that elevate the customer experience and drive innovation. Our expansive and growing group of brands empowers seamless access

to a comprehensive range of luxury travel options and services globally with over $1 billion transactions annually. Navigatr Group’s goal is to create a more purposeful travel industry through its strategic investment, best-in-class services and philanthropy.

Job Description

Ensemble’s technology team is looking for an experienced designer to work as a strategic partner on key initiatives. Our multi-functional team is focused on requirements, client insights, and product design to support ongoing feature releases across our technology platform, with the goal of driving sales performance and revenue growth. You will act as the voice of hundreds of travel advisors and independent contractors who use our technology products to build and grow their business and drive profitability. You will also be working on our client-facing assets, including websites and mobile apps as well as internal assets. Your work will involve solving interesting and complex user flow and interface challenges, creating wireframes, prototypes and/or visual designs, and overseeing the visual interface for the web-based products or applications.

Key Responsibilities

Work closely with the Product and Engineering teams to develop solutions to new problems while bringing consistency, simplicity, and ease-of-use to the experience of our products.
Design and prototype elegant solutions for web and mobile environments.
Identify user needs, sketch solutions with prototypes, test ideas, and refine designs with data and user feedback.
Document detailed interaction models and UI specifications.
Iterate alongside engineers to build great user experiences.
Collaborate with other departments maintain design consistency and coherence across all of our platforms and promote the best UI practices to other designers, engineers, and product owners.

Qualifications

3+ years of experience as a UX/interaction/product designer or similar role, ideally within an Agile environment.
A diploma or degree in a related field (UX Design, Graphic Design, Interdisciplinary Design, Interaction Design) or relevant work experience.
An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns across desktop and mobile web/applications.
Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business needs, and customer expectations.
Must be organized and analytical.
Unwavering attention to detail with an acute awareness that everything counts.
Commitment to learning and expanding professional and technical knowledge.
Strong knowledge of prototyping tool with design system proficiency.
Ability to work well with others across the business.
Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Understanding of HTML/CSS/JS capabilities and limitations.
Proficiency or ability to learn Angular, Figma, Vue, CSS, JS, SaaS.
Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business needs, and customer expectations.
Curiosity, continuous learning and an open-minded attitude.
Experience working in travel industry would be an asset.

Cultural Fit

Thrives working in a technology and KPI driven organization.
Able to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment.
Highly functional in a fast paced, constantly changing workplace - building plans through iterations from learning on what’s working and not working.
Ability to build trust and work through conflict both upwards and downward.

We know that our success is dependent on the people who join our team, which is why we recruit the best. Our team is made up of owners; people who are smart, low ego, and who are accountable for their results. We all play a part in the success of the company and are proud of what we do.

TripArc is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If you require accommodation due to a disability at any stage of our hiring process, please advise us when completing your application.

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