We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior UX Designer for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take on a premier design capacity within user experience, product discovery, and human-centered digital solutions, specializing in crafting intuitive, responsive, and mobile-first user interfaces.
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As a principal UX designer, you will bridge the gap between complex business requirements, cross-functional technical teams, and user needs across the entire product delivery lifecycle (Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live). Operating fully onsite in Toronto, you will lead user research, facilitate design workshops, produce interactive prototypes, iterate on user feedback, and enforce accessibility standards to ensure high-performing digital services.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Onsite (5 days per week)
Contract Duration: 7-month contract (with potential for 1-time extension)
Advantages
Full-Lifecycle Ownership: Lead end-to-end user experience design across Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live product delivery phases.
Agile & Design Sprints: Drive user story creation, Google Ventures Design Sprints, and rapid prototyping within multi-disciplinary Scrum squads.
Modern Tooling Ecosystem: Utilize industry-leading design software (Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, InVision, Axure, Zeplin, JustInMind).
High-Impact Human-Centered Scope: Conduct user research, usability testing, and digital accessibility compliance validations to build accessible, user-focused digital services.
Responsibilities
Facilitate kickoff workshops and discovery sessions to define problem statements, user personas, business goals, strategy maps, and stakeholder journeys.
Lead user research activities, authoring interview topic maps, scripts, research synthesis, and comprehensive research findings reports.
Execute Design Sprints and produce clickable, interactive prototypes to explore and validate multiple solution approaches with users.
Participate actively in Agile/Scrum ceremonies (Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Demos, Retrospectives) and create user stories ahead of development sprints.
Conduct usability testing sessions and iterative design updates based on direct user feedback and synthesis.
Execute digital accessibility compliance testing across product iterations to guarantee inclusive design standards.
Establish and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), analyze user behavior patterns, and iterate live solutions for continuous service improvement.
Collaborate closely with product owners, technical architects, and developers to align design solutions with technical capabilities and delivery schedules.
Qualifications
Core Requirements & UX Expertise
Senior UX Tenure: 10+ years of progressive experience as a User Experience Designer using UX design best practices, mobile-first strategies, and responsive web design.
Agile Product Delivery: 3+ years of experience embedded within balanced project/product teams utilizing user-centered design processes and Agile (Scrum) delivery frameworks.
User Research & Usability Testing: Proven experience facilitating end-to-end user research, interview synthesis, usability testing sessions, and authoring research findings reports.
UX Software Mastery: Advanced expertise using industry UX tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, InVision, Axure, Zeplin, or JustInMind.
Education: Degree or diploma in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability, Technical Writing, or a related discipline.
Preferred Assets
Accessibility Testing: Direct experience executing digital accessibility compliance testing.
Front-End Development Familiarity: Working knowledge or exposure to HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React, Angular, or Node.js.
Soft Skills & Relationship Management
Consultative Communication: Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills to effectively articulate design processes, ideas, and solutions to stakeholders.
Stakeholder Mediation: Strong interpersonal, negotiation, and mediation skills to align business goals with user needs and navigate change management.
Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior UX Designer" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior UX Designer for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take on a premier design capacity within user experience, product discovery, and human-centered digital solutions, specializing in crafting intuitive, responsive, and mobile-first user interfaces.
As a principal UX designer, you will bridge the gap between complex business requirements, cross-functional technical teams, and user needs across the entire product delivery lifecycle (Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live). Operating fully onsite in Toronto, you will lead user research, facilitate design workshops, produce interactive prototypes, iterate on user feedback, and enforce accessibility standards to ensure high-performing digital services.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Onsite (5 days per week)
Contract Duration: 7-month contract (with potential for 1-time extension)
Advantages
Full-Lifecycle Ownership: Lead end-to-end user experience design across Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live product delivery phases.
Agile & Design Sprints: Drive user story creation, Google Ventures Design Sprints, and rapid prototyping within multi-disciplinary Scrum squads.
...
Modern Tooling Ecosystem: Utilize industry-leading design software (Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, InVision, Axure, Zeplin, JustInMind).
High-Impact Human-Centered Scope: Conduct user research, usability testing, and digital accessibility compliance validations to build accessible, user-focused digital services.
Responsibilities
Facilitate kickoff workshops and discovery sessions to define problem statements, user personas, business goals, strategy maps, and stakeholder journeys.
Lead user research activities, authoring interview topic maps, scripts, research synthesis, and comprehensive research findings reports.
Execute Design Sprints and produce clickable, interactive prototypes to explore and validate multiple solution approaches with users.
Participate actively in Agile/Scrum ceremonies (Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Demos, Retrospectives) and create user stories ahead of development sprints.
Conduct usability testing sessions and iterative design updates based on direct user feedback and synthesis.
Execute digital accessibility compliance testing across product iterations to guarantee inclusive design standards.
Establish and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), analyze user behavior patterns, and iterate live solutions for continuous service improvement.
Collaborate closely with product owners, technical architects, and developers to align design solutions with technical capabilities and delivery schedules.
Qualifications
Core Requirements & UX Expertise
Senior UX Tenure: 10+ years of progressive experience as a User Experience Designer using UX design best practices, mobile-first strategies, and responsive web design.
Agile Product Delivery: 3+ years of experience embedded within balanced project/product teams utilizing user-centered design processes and Agile (Scrum) delivery frameworks.
User Research & Usability Testing: Proven experience facilitating end-to-end user research, interview synthesis, usability testing sessions, and authoring research findings reports.
UX Software Mastery: Advanced expertise using industry UX tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, InVision, Axure, Zeplin, or JustInMind.
Education: Degree or diploma in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability, Technical Writing, or a related discipline.
Preferred Assets
Accessibility Testing: Direct experience executing digital accessibility compliance testing.
Front-End Development Familiarity: Working knowledge or exposure to HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React, Angular, or Node.js.
Soft Skills & Relationship Management
Consultative Communication: Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills to effectively articulate design processes, ideas, and solutions to stakeholders.
Stakeholder Mediation: Strong interpersonal, negotiation, and mediation skills to align business goals with user needs and navigate change management.
Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior UX Designer" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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