UX Designer

Darkvision

The Role

Overview

Design and improve desktop UX for industrial imaging software and client deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

  • deliverable design
  • wireframing
  • design system
  • user research
  • ux improvement

Tasks

-Design customer-facing deliverables: DarkVision currently delivers highly differentiated industrial inspection datasets, visualizations, and reports as our final product to oil and gas companies worldwide. We have a high bar for quality, impact, and consistency. You will work on improving the look, feel, and experience of our existing customer deliverables and support the design of new customer deliverables. You will foster consistency across our brand and products. -Design new software products: DarkVision is rapidly expanding our industrial inspection services into new market verticals. These product developments require significant software systems and bring significant opportunities for career growth. You will work with our internal teams to design effective user flows that allow product users to accomplish their goals seamlessly. You will create user-centered experiences, lead product discovery sessions, and create wireframes and prototypes for our upcoming new software products. -Design system: You will establish DarkVision's design system that will ensure consistency across our products. You will also evangelize user-centered design principles and best practices by giving presentations and workshops. You will help the software team put users front and center when developing useful and usable software. -UX research: You identify product pain points and usability issues by using various UX research techniques like interviews, surveys, and focus groups. You will use your user research findings to guide your product design and lead usability testing. You will also help identify the underlying assumptions and validate or challenge them based on your research. You will also conduct foundational research to guide the direction of our new software products. -Improve and manage existing software products: You will work closely with the In-line Inspection and Downhole product teams to improve the UX of our existing software products. You will come up with effective design solutions that will improve product usability and reduce analysis timelines and pain points. You will collaborate cross-functionally with the Product Management Team, Software Engineering Team, Data Team, Field Team, Sales Team, and Machine Learning Team to take new features from ideation to prototyping, to user testing, and launch.

Requirements

  • figma
  • adobe
  • design systems
  • ux/ui
  • 4+ years
  • autonomous

What You Bring

-Able to work in our North Vancouver office on a daily basis. -Experience creating or contributing to design systems. -4 or more years of experience designing UX/UI for desktop applications. -Expertise in Figma and/or Adobe design suite. -Ability to work autonomously and manage projects independently. -Meticulous attention to detail.

The Company

About Darkvision

-Founded in 2013 in North Vancouver, the company pioneered industrial acoustic imaging to peer inside critical assets. -Secured Series A funding and earned a Deloitte Fast 50 award. -Acquired majority stake by Koch Industries to expand and fuel R&D. -Their HADES™ downhole tool captures sub-mm 3D ultrasound data from wells thousands of feet deep at high pressure. -Projects span oil & gas well integrity, pipeline inspection, public infrastructure, and aerospace component analysis. -The in-house stack blends sensor arrays, cloud-based AI, signal processing, and photorealistic defect visualizations. -Known for delivering insights in extreme environments.

Sector Specialisms

Industrial

Energy

Aerospace

Manufacturing

Oil & Gas

Pipeline

Utilities

Security Clearance

-successful candidates will be required to complete a criminal background check.