UX Designer – Retail & Operational Systems

Job Title: UX Designer – Retail & Operational Systems

Location: 100% Remote, Canada
Experience: 4+ Years
Employment Type: Full Time
Rate: $60k CAD to $70k CAD

Role Summary: NearSource is looking for a UX Designer to lead the design of intuitive, efficient, and highly usable in-store technology interfaces supporting frontline retail and financial operations. This role focuses on optimizing Team Member interactions with transactional systems used in fast-paced, compliance-driven store environments. The selected candidate will drive workflow efficiency, accuracy, and usability across critical retail and financial processes while balancing operational realities, regulatory requirements, and technical constraints.

Key Responsibilities

• Observe in-store Team Member workflows to identify friction, workarounds, training gaps, and adoption barriers
• Lead UX design for high-frequency, compliance-driven retail and financial transactions
• Architect workflows for item intake, pricing, customer profiles, loyalty enrollment, inventory management, loan processing, payments, and fraud mitigation
• Design UI logic focused on data accuracy, keyboard-first and mobile navigation, validation, and error prevention
• Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, risk, compliance, and legal teams to align on business rules and disclosures
• Create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and annotated design specifications for transactional systems
• Deliver pixel-perfect, production-ready UI designs balancing usability and visual polish
• Validate designs through usability testing, workshops, and iterative reviews
• Identify opportunities to reduce keystrokes, shorten learning curves, streamline flows, and minimize operational errors
• Contribute to and evolve design systems with components optimized for operational workflows
• Apply AI-assisted design tools to accelerate prototyping and iteration while maintaining design quality

Must-Have Skills

• 4+ years of UX/UI design experience focused on operational workflows, internal tools, or transaction processing systems
• Strong expertise in information architecture, form design, workflow optimization, and conditional logic
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining design systems and component libraries
• Advanced visual design skills with attention to typography, color, spacing, and hierarchy
• Proven ability to translate regulatory and compliance requirements into clean, usable UI flows
• Proficiency with Figma, including Figma AI features and Figma Make
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, product, operations, and compliance teams
• Clear communication of design rationale to technical teams and leadership
• Curiosity and adaptability toward emerging design technologies and AI-assisted workflows
• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with item valuation, customer onboarding, identity verification, loyalty programs, or payment capture systems
• Background designing task-oriented interfaces for non-desk users in high-volume retail environments
• Experience with AI-assisted prototyping tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Figma AI
• Understanding of stateful prototyping, including focus states, transitions, loading states, and interaction sequences
• Experience with prompt engineering for design workflows
• Familiarity with voice, conversational, or multimodal interface patterns
• Exposure to AI-assisted features with trust, transparency, and override mechanisms
• Understanding of computer vision interfaces for retail or checkout use cases
• Portfolio demonstrating AI-assisted design iterations and workflow evolution

Apply now, or share your resume with salary expectations at careers@nearsource.ca.
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About NearSource: NearSource Technologies is a trusted partner for future-ready software consulting, enabling Fortune 500 enterprises to accelerate digital transformation. Our global engineering teams deliver impactful, scalable solutions while working directly on long-term initiatives for some of the world's most admired brands.

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