ASICS Apps - Race Roster Product Designer

ASICS Apps lives by ASICS’ founding philosophy, "Anima Sana In Corpore Sano” or “A Sound Mind in a Sound Body.” We believe in the positive benefits of movement and aspire for people all over the world to live healthful and happy lives in both body and mind. 
 

The ASICS Apps provide digital services and goods focused on helping runners and running events every step of the way. To strengthen our commitment to runners, we are expanding our investment in endurance-related digital services, such as endurance event technology (Race Roster), leading mobile running app (the ASICS Runkeeper app), and other exciting platforms that will help us better serve the endurance industry. Combined, these projects and products makeup ASICS Apps. 
 

Our mission?in the past, today, and into the future?is to contribute to a healthful and sustainable society and to bring joy to the people of the world through movement. Movement is an important element in living longer healthy lives, in feeling more fulfilled, and in crossing national and cultural boundaries to bring the world together. If you are looking to join a fun and innovative company focused on the booming digital health and fitness industry, this is the place for you!

Position Overview

Race Roster is an online event registration platform geared towards endurance events. We’re looking for a product designer to help us continue building Race Roster to be the top registration platform in the endurance industry. You’ll be an incredibly collaborative team, which will hopefully lead you to the best work of your life. Product designers at Race Roster are customer-focused, creative and constantly trying new things, showing them off when they work well, and discarding them when they don’t. You’ll work in the entire production environment. You can easily go between systematic thinking and microscopic design detail. You love working closely with customers, developers, and stakeholders.

Product Line 

This role will be working on the Race Roster product. 

Work Location

The successful candidate for this role can be either a satellite employee (working 100% remotely from a designated location within Canada or US), a hybrid employee (flexibility to work in the office or from home at a location within 75 km/45 miles from the London, ON/Boston, MA office), or an in-office employee at our London, ON/Boston, MA office.

Responsibilities

• Working with our team to design new features across a variety of products and applications
• Working with other designers to grow our design system
• Creating consistent, modular, and usable interfaces and experiences
• Updating legacy designs to our new modern standards
• Working with the marketing and sales team to create eye-catching design deliverables
• Creating and building emails, presentations, illustrations, etc.
• Meaningfully participate in diversity and inclusion initiatives across the ASICS Apps teams

Education & Experience

• 3+ years of experience in a product designer or related role
• Ability to work in a team and independently on assigned tasks
• Ability to prioritize incoming tasks
• Ability to work within a design system to create standardized user interfaces
• Ability to design a strong user experience (user research, testing, prototyping)
• Enough knowledge of HTML and CSS to implement straightforward designs
• Strong visual design skills to create illustrations, photo manipulations, print layouts and digital designs
• Solid handle on typography and colour theory

 Bonus Education, Experience and Skills

• Motion design
• Photography skills
• Video skills
• Javascript (React & jQuery)
• Experience working in a front-end framework like bootstrap
• Experience designing with AODA accessibility standards in mind
• Ability to use common graphic design programs such as Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign or equivalent
• Relevant industry experience

 Performance Measures

• Effective completion of assigned tasks
• Efficient use of time and resources
• Continuously learning and improving in your role
• Quality of work performed
• Ability to communicate effectively with other employees at all levels of the organization