Senior UX Designer

Wirehead
CA - Ontario - toronto
January 14, 2025

Client: Government

Type: Contract

Role: Senior UX Designer

Term: 180 Business Days + extension option

Pay Rate: $95.00

Start date: 2-3 weeks

Location: Toronto / Hybrid

Req ID: RQ08384

Requirements: What you'll need

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications:

User Experience / Product Design

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
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
Demonstrated experience creating design deliverables such as mood boards, collaboration boards, empathy maps, user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and interactive prototypes
Demonstrated experience creating deliverables such as design blueprints, information architecture, presentations and reports.
A solid understanding of generative and evaluative user research methods and how user research can be incorporated continuously in the digital product lifecycle
Hands-on experience creating user research plans, recruiting participants, facilitating user research, analyzing findings and delivering insights
Synthesize research findings into insightful and concise user research documents, such as user journey maps, personas, service blueprints, and affinity maps.
Experience researching and applying industry best practices to support your design deliverables
The ability to incorporate web analytics, visitor feedback, performance metrics and other data to inform design decisions
Practice providing rationale for design decisions in group settings with multiple stakeholders
Experience with Figma, XDstudio is a must
Experience coding in HTML, CSS and JavaScript is an asset

Communications

Ability to communicate designs in clear and understandable manner, present recommendations and provide advice to the stakeholders
Ability to collaborate with technical experts and business subject matter experts to elicit key information relevant to user experience and service design
Strong facilitation skills leading design discussions and negotiations

Agile Product Development

Experience working in an agile product teams
Demonstrated willingness to iterate work output based on feedback
Experience collaborating and sharing design tasks with multiple designers on complex product deliveries

Must Have:

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
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
Experience with Figma, XDstudio is a must
Experience coding in HTML, CSS and JavaScript is an asset
Ability to communicate designs in clear and understandable manner, present recommendations and provide advice to the stakeholders

PREFERRED SKILLS

UX Design + Figma / XDstudio + HTML + CSS + Javascript

HOW TO APPLY

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