Senior UX Designer Contract

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Client: Ontario Health
Location: Downtown Toronto (hybrid)
Role: Senior UX Designer
Term: 178 Days + extension
Rate: Open DOE
Start date: 2/3 weeks
Req ID: 5729
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Requirements: What you’ll need

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications
Must haves:

• Hands-On experience using Figma to design web application features and assets.
• Provide UX/UI leadership and defining best practices and methodologies: user-centered design, design thinking, and design sprints.
• Proficient in UX design for web applications, preferably enterprise portals and websites, mobile, and responsive experiences (8 years+)
• Must have strong facilitation skills and experience leading client workshops remotely
• Work within a fast-paced and Agile environment
• Proven UI design skills and experience

Deliverables:

• Using Figma, design mockups and assets for a custom Web Application (Enterprise BI Platform).
• Supporting product management and delivery with mockups, and design solutions.
• Leading and facilitating product discovery and design sessions.
• Establish a Design System and framework

Responsibilities:

• Work with product management and lines of business to gather and analyze customer requirements and translate them into engaging and effective UI experiences
• Ideate and conceptualize innovative UI solutions to solve complex end-user challenges.
• Produce, personas and customer journey maps, wireframes and prototypes
• Lead design review sessions with internal stakeholders, reaching consensus and getting approvals on designs
• Work closely with front-end developers other product team members to successfully build, test and deploy cutting-edge user interfaces and UI components
• Establish product specific UI/UX vision and standards while adhering to branding and accessibility guidelines
• Lead customer experience and usability studies
• Perform other duties as assigned by management

Desired Skills:

• A degree in design or a design-related discipline (user-centred design, visual design, human factors, human-computer interaction, etc.) or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience designing web enabled digital solutions
• Experience with UX design for Web Portals (5 years+)
• Expert knowledge of information architecture and interaction design, user-centered design process, and user experience principles and techniques
• Demonstrated knowledge of branding, layout, color theory, typography and photography
• Experience in Agile, Scrum, user stories, user flows, low and high-fidelity designs and prototyping.
• Experience with UI design.
• Proficiency with design tools such as Adobe XD, Figma, Axure – 3 years
• Experience in usability testing and accessibility compliance (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA))
• Understanding of current and emerging technologies, design patterns, industry trends and standards, device and browser capabilities
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas and solutions to team members
• Comfortable working within tight timeframes and with working creatively within specific constraints.
• An impressive portfolio of recent work demonstrating UI/UX expertise in designing web and mobile applications

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

**Please include a portfolio with your resume.

Must haves:

• Hands-On experience using Figma to design web application features and assets.
• Provide UX/UI leadership and defining best practices and methodologies: user-centered design, design thinking, and design sprints.
• Proficient in UX design for web applications, preferably enterprise portals and websites, mobile, and responsive experiences (8 years+)
• Must have strong facilitation skills and experience leading client workshops remotely
• Work within a fast-paced and Agile environment
• Proven UI design skills and experience

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply for this opportunity by sending your resume directly to careers@wirehead.com

We thank all candidates for their interest but advise that only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted directly. Rest assured that your resume will be kept on our database and will be considered for all future opportunities.

***This opportunity is in Toronto; preference will be given to local candidates. Wirehead does not offer a relocation package. We encourage you continue to refer to our Job listing page as new opportunities become available and updated on a regular basis. Thank you again for your interest in Wirehead!