UI Designer

Responsibilities

Design user experiences and interface visuals with a keen eye for visual design, ensuring every interaction is intuitive, playful, and resonates with kids and aligns with our brand.
Sketch, wireframe, and prototype to quickly develop and implement creative assets for early user testing.
Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, artists, animators, and developers to shape and refine products.
Meticulously create interactive and intuitive experiences tailored to platform capabilities, ensuring interactivity and user engagement are at the forefront.
Present your designs and iterate based on collaborative feedback and insights from user testing.

Skills

Experience: 5+ years in visual design, experience design, marketing, or a related field, with a portfolio showcasing impactful work.
Technical Skills: Proficient in Figma, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop; expertise in interface design and UX principles.
Information Architecture: Skilled at turning business and user needs into clear IA artifacts focused on usability.
Education: Degree in interaction design, visual design, or related field.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills, with a knack for storytelling.
Detail-Oriented: Precise in design and documentation.
Project Management: Capable of prioritizing and meeting deadlines in fast-paced environments.

Benefits

💡 Have an eye for design
🤝 Collaborate effortlessly
📚 Are user-centric
🌟 Own your work
📖 Tell compelling stories
🔍 Navigate ambiguity

Qualifications

Experience: 5+ years in visual design, experience design, marketing, or a related field, with a portfolio showcasing impactful work.
Technical Skills: Proficient in Figma, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop; expertise in interface design and UX principles.
Information Architecture: Skilled at turning business and user needs into clear IA artifacts focused on usability.
Education: Degree in interaction design, visual design, or related field.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills, with a knack for storytelling.
Detail-Oriented: Precise in design and documentation.
Project Management: Capable of prioritizing and meeting deadlines in fast-paced environments.

Benefits

💡 Have an eye for design
🤝 Collaborate effortlessly
📚 Are user-centric
🌟 Own your work
📖 Tell compelling stories
🔍 Navigate ambiguity

About the Role

Sago Mini is looking for a UI Designer to join our team and contribute to our innovative, playful learning products designed for children. In this role, you'll collaborate with product owners, the principal UX designer, developers, and artists to create engaging and delightful experiences for children ages 2–8 and their parents. You will be a key advocate of the child experience, applying insights and research to establish and iterate on the details of interaction and visual design. This intermediate-level position is ideal for candidates with 5+ years of relevant experience.

This is a 8-12 month contract position covering maternity leave.

This role is hybrid and requires the successful candidate to attend our downtown, Toronto studio at least once a week.

Nice to Haves

Experience with gamification principals and practice
Experience working in Ed tech or game design.
Experience designing for children and families.
Proficient in video and motion graphics design.

About the Process

You’ll get an email response confirming we’ve received your application, and we’ll let you know within a few weeks if we’d like to schedule a follow-up.
If you’re moving ahead, we’ll book a call to learn more about your experience.
If that goes well, we’ll send you a short homework assignment to get a better feel for your skillset.
If the assignment goes well, we’ll book a few more interviews with you and the hiring team to dive deeper prior to making a decision.

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Based in Toronto, Sago Sago Toys of Spin Master Limited a leading global children’s entertainment company that creates, designs and manufactures a diversified portfolio of innovative toys, games, products and entertainment properties. We hire humble and collaborative people who care about doing great work. Sago Mini is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company.