Senior UX Designer

Job Description

<p><b>Role: Senior UX Designer</b></p><p><br></p><p><b>Client:</b> Government, Broader Public Sector</p><p><b>Job Type:</b> Contract</p><p><b>Term:</b> 12 Months</p><p><b>Workplace Type:</b> Hybrid / Onsite</p><p><b>Pay Rate:</b> Negotiable</p><p><b>Start date:</b> 2-3 weeks</p><p><b>Location:</b> Toronto, ON</p><p><b>Language:</b> English</p><p><b>Clearance:</b> N/A</p><p><b>ATS ID #: 9816</b></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>Requirements: What you'll need</b></p><p><b>Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications:</b></p><p><br></p><p>Senior UX Designer </p><p><br></p><p>User Experience / Product Design</p><ul><li>Design experience and expertise in developing and executing strategies that improve overall user interactions with digital, user-centric products and services, resulting in measurable enhancements and positive user feedback </li><li>The ability to lead the design of complex digital services from concept to production and the ability to draw on your expertise to develop and maintain a high bar for user experience standards and performance measures </li><li>Demonstrated experience creating design deliverables such as mood boards, collaboration boards, empathy maps, user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and interactive prototypes </li><li>Demonstrated experience creating deliverables such as design blueprints, information architecture, presentations and reports. </li><li>A solid understanding of generative and evaluative user research methods and how user research can be incorporated continuously in the digital product lifecycle </li><li>Hands-on experience creating user research plans, recruiting participants, facilitating user research, analyzing findings and delivering insights </li><li>Synthesize research findings into insightful and concise user research documents, such as user journey maps, personas, service blueprints, and affinity maps. </li><li>Experience researching and applying industry best practices to support your design deliverables </li><li>The ability to incorporate web analytics, visitor feedback, performance metrics and other data to inform design decisions </li><li>Practice providing rationale for design decisions in group settings with multiple stakeholders </li><li>Experience with Figma, XDstudio is a must </li><li>Experience coding in HTML, CSS and JavaScript is an asset </li></ul><p> </p><p>Communications</p><ul><li>Ability to communicate designs in clear and understandable manner, present recommendations and provide advice to the stakeholders </li><li>Ability to collaborate with technical experts and business subject matter experts to elicit key information relevant to user experience and service design </li><li>Strong facilitation skills leading design discussions and negotiations </li></ul><p> </p><p>Agile Product Development</p><ul><li>Experience working in an agile product team</li><li>Demonstrated willingness to iterate work output based on feedback </li><li>Experience collaborating and sharing design tasks with multiple designers on complex product deliveries </li></ul><p> </p><p>Design Portfolio </p><ul><li>Candidate to include the link to their portfolio of work </li></ul><p><br></p><p>Must Have:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Design experience and expertise in developing and executing strategies that improve overall user interactions with digital, user-centric products and services, resulting in measurable enhancements and positive user feedback </li><li>The ability to lead the design of complex digital services from concept to production and the ability to draw on your expertise to develop and maintain a high bar for user experience standards and performance measures</li><li>Experience with Figma, XDstudio is a must </li><li>Experience coding in HTML, CSS and JavaScript is an asset </li><li>Ability to communicate designs in clear and understandable manner, present recommendations and provide advice to the stakeholders</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>PREFERRED SKILLS</b></p><p><br></p><p>Figma + XD Studio + HTML, CSS + JavaScript + Agile</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>HOW TO APPLY</b></p><p><br></p><p><b>Patrick Marsan</b> is hiring for this position. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Follow Wirehead on LinkedIn </p><p><br></p><p>Interested in working with us in the future?</p><p>members who follow a company they’re interested in, like Wirehead, are 5x more likely to receive a message from a recruiter than those who don’t.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>We thank all candidates for their interest but advise that only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.</b> Rest assured that your resume will be kept on our database and will be considered for all future opportunities.</p><p><br></p><p>Applicants must be authorized to work in Canada.</p><p><br></p><p>Copyright 2007 - 2025 | Wirehead Talent | All rights reserved</p><p></p>