RQ11544 – UX Designer – Senior

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.
  
• Conceive and conduct user research, interviews and surveys,
  and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps,
  wireframes, mockups and prototypes
  

General Skills:

• 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
  
• 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 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
  
• 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
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

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
  with Figma, Canva and similar tools
• Demonstrated
  effectiveness in working closely with cross-functional teams, including
  developers, QA specialists, and business stakeholders, to achieve common
  project goals.

Nice to have:

• Prior OPS/Public sector exp
  
• Exp with Ontario Service Design
  
• Exp with UI/UX would be ideal (wireframing, Surveys,
  Questionaires, consultation, research)
  

Skill Set Requirements:

General Skills:

• 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
• 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
  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
• 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

• Demonstrated
  ability to prepare clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation,
  including reports, reviews, and assessments.
• Skilled
  in conveying design concepts and development processes in a clear,
  understandable manner to diverse stakeholders.
• 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:

• Knowledge
  of accessability testing
• Ability
  to work with Ontario Design system
• 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: