Usability Designer

Usability Designer Opportunity at Canon Production Printing

Company: Canon Production Printing

We are looking for someone who can organize and execute usability validations to assess the usability of our products under development. Are you passionate about designing user-friendly products and ensuring optimal user experience? Then our design team in Venlo, The Netherlands, is looking for you!

What You’ll Do
As a Usability Designer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring our products provide an excellent user experience. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Organizing and executing usability validations to assess product usability during development, with a specific focus on hardware usability testing to evaluate the user experience of integrated hardware components, such as controllers and peripherals.
• Assessing ergonomic factors to optimize user comfort and efficiency and translating research findings into design solutions that address identified usability issues, enhancing user satisfaction.
• Analyzing test results and effectively communicating findings to project stakeholders and design colleagues, ensuring the implementation of usability recommendations.
• Collaborating closely with quality leads, project leaders, and cross-functional teams, including design, engineering, and service, to create excellent user experiences.
• Conducting various usability activities, including user research to understand needs and workflows, usability studies (formative and summative), and documentation (task analysis, usability study protocols/reports for regulatory submission).
• Making fundamental contributions to usability-related innovations in products or processes based on research and pre-development, influencing design decisions and product strategy.

What You Bring
We are looking for someone with a passion for the end user. You are a team player with a positive drive and an independent attitude, who enjoys taking product ownership and initiative. Furthermore, you meet the following requirements:

• A master’s or bachelor’s degree in Industrial Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.
• Proven experience with hardware usability testing as well as a strong design background.
• About 10 years of relevant work experience.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating experience with usability testing, user research, ergonomic assessment, and design. We would like to receive this portfolio together with your resume and cover letter.
• Knowledge of usability testing methodologies and tools, with a strong awareness of user-centered design principles.
• Able and enjoy working on a large variety of projects at the same time.
• You thrive in international teams and are fluent in spoken and written English. Dutch is a plus but not required.
• Available for a minimum of 32 hours per week.
• You are eligible to work in the Netherlands.

Please note that applications without portfolio will not be considered.

What You’ll Get From Us

We offer a challenging job, in which you have to combine both technical and social skills to reach your goals. You will work together with customers and stakeholders within Canon Production Printing and the total Canon group worldwide.

Besides that, you will receive an interesting package of conditions:

• a competitive salary, matching your experience and educational background
• 38 vacation days
• commuting allowance, extra 13th month pay (8.6%), and vacation pay (8%)
• a laptop and smartphone
• possibilities to update and grow your knowledge and skills by following trainings, conferences and peer consultation.

With our company values collaboration, innovation and ownership, we strive to bring out the best in each other, expand boundaries and feel empowered to take ownership of our work.

What do we stand for?

We develop and manufacture high-tech printing products and workflow software for the commercial printing market as part of Canon, a global leader in imaging technologies. With around 3,300 employees across three continents and our headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands, we innovate to create high-quality solutions that add color to the world. Guided by the philosophy of Kyosei—living and working together for the common good—our culture is built on openness, collegiality, trust and stability. We empower our people to grow, take initiative, and make an impact.

With our company values collaboration, innovation and ownership, we strive to bring out the best in each other, expand boundaries and feel empowered to take ownership of our work.