Website UX/UI Designers and Partners (solo and/or agencies) - government focus
Radical I/O Technology Inc., Canada
Job Description
Hiya! We’re Radical I/O, a people-first enterprise software development consultancy and lab that develops technology with purpose. We work with cities and organizations to develop meaningful, data-driven solutions that provide people with easy access to information, when and where they need it.
We are now focusing on our SimpliCity SaaS website and integration platform for Canadian municipalities that is currently in development with our first early adopter customer. SimpliCity is the combination of a flexible API-first headless CMS, a content creation web console, and a highly performant Canadian cloud-hosted website publishing platform to support municipal digital transformation goals.
THE POSITION
As we aim to expand SimpliCity across Canada in 2024 and beyond, we know that we can't take on all the website design work ourselves (particularly because we are staying focused on designing and building new product features). Therefore, we're on the lookout for skilled (Senior) Website UX/UI Designers and Partners with experience and strong portfolios in client facilitation, design sprints, user research, and UX/UI design for enterprise, government, education, and non-profit websites. You will primarily be working on designing municipal and other public sector websites that will be built and hosted on our SimpliCity CMS platform, but you may also be asked to help on some other public sector customer design work from time-to-time.
We particularly love working with people who are purpose/values-driven, empathetic, genuine, accepting, open-minded, collaborative, communicative, and who like to tackle solving user and business challenges. SimpliCity is woman-led by Founder amp; CEO Briana Sim; therefore, inclusive and flexible hiring amp; partnering processes, and working conditions are important to us. We hope they are important to you too! Our purpose is to support municipalities and other public sector organizations to better inform, serve, and engage the public, and we're eager to see you become as passionate as we are about tackling this challenge.
LOGISTICS
We're essentially looking to partner up with solo designers and/or agencies on various public sector RFPs and resulting implementation projects, along with our own pilot projects with municipalities when they request website design services as part of that work. We'd like to put together a strong roster of qualified designers/agencies who we can collaborate with in order to ensure winning bids and project success. We will always give you the option to opt in or opt out of opportunities, and to adjust budgets and scope depending on each project.
We're open to independent contractor/consulting agreements, or we can also work with folks who prefer to be paid as employees under limited-term/hourly employee agreements.
Alternately, if you're a larger agency with extensive public sector website experience and RFP wins, we are open to being a sub to your submissions, and solely act as the CMS platform (and implementation developers if/where applicable).
You/your team will be working remotely from within Canada (sorry, partners physically located outside of Canada will not be considered). Therefore, you will need to provide your own comfortable workspace, equipment, and design environment.
Our website design budgets are typically in the $40/hr to $70/hr range depending on skills and experience levels, and projects may be hourly or fixed-price depending on the opportunity. Please share your expectations and rates in this area to ensure budgetary alignment.
Our first round of shortlisting partners will occur from Fri Feb 23 to Fri Mar 8, 2024, with interviews taking place within the week or two after that (or earlier if more urgent opportunities come up during that time).
We may do rolling shortlisting and interview rounds, and we may keep this posting up for an extended period of time in order to ensure our qualified design partner list is robust enough to meet our current and future growth needs.
Requirements
You'll do well in this role if you:
- Are comfortable working professionally with customers and users in larger organizations, especially if you have experience in government and other public sector organizations.
- Enjoy, and are skilled at, facilitating workshops, user research sessions, and design sprints with customers and/or their users.
- Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with project/product manager and engineers, and then prepare and present rough drafts, including advocating for the whys behind your solutions, to the team and key customer stakeholders.
- Effectively conceptualize and communicate your ideas and designs, early and iteratively.
- Find creative and effective ways to solve UX and UI challenges.
- Are knowledgeable in,