UX Designer - Senior

Job Title: UX Designer - Senior

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Work Model: Onsite

Duration: 12 months

Extension: 1 Time

Must Haves

• Relevant experience creating GUI designs based on user interaction and performance
• Experience as a UX designer, interactive designer, UI designer, or similar role, designing for web and mobile applications
• ability to define and lead UX projects and design workshops and alignment sessions with stakeholder, business users
• Experience conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, user journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences
• Skilled in conveying design concepts and development processes in a clear, understandable manner to diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to work with Ontario Design system or other similar Design systems.

Description / Responsibilities / Skills

Responsibilities

• Create effective, user friendly and visually appealing interfaces.
• Design the overall functionality of the product in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing.
• Design user interfaces for various projects such as digital displays, publications, media, and other creative materials as required.
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate the designs.

Experience & Skill Set Requirements

General Skills (55%)

• Managing end-to-end user research from recruiting to synthesis.
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools
• Thorough understanding of the limitations and appropriate use of web development technologies
• Experience in designing online programs with emphasis in the emotional aspects of human experience
• Experience designing the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing
• Experience designing and delivering wireframes, user stories, user flows, user journeys, mockups and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
• Experience facilitating the client's product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products and optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
• Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions
• Experience making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
• Experience gathering user feedback to configure existing interfaces
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience
• Experience with Figma, Canvas and similar tools

Communications Skills (30%)

• Demonstrated ability to prepare clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation, including reports, reviews, and assessments.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in working closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA specialists, and business stakeholders, to achieve common project goals.
• Demonstrated experience within a collaborative team working at different levels.

Desirable Skills: (10%)

• Knowledge of accessability testing
• Knowledge of digital service standard.
• Experience with complex design challenges, especially in dealing with legacy systems and nuanced stakeholder/approval relationships
• Proficient in designing with accessibility in mind, and meeting WCAG 2.1 AA requirements

Prior Public Service/OPS experience: (5%)

• Prior Public Service/OPS experience