We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior UX Designer to drive the end-to-end design, delivery, and optimization of intuitive, accessible, and user-centered digital experiences. In this role, you will take technical and strategic ownership of crafting visually appealing web and mobile interfaces while leading comprehensive user research initiatives. Acting as a core bridge between business vision and technical execution, you will transform complex workflows into elegant design artifacts, facilitate cross-functional alignment, and ensure all digital products achieve peak usability and full regulatory compliance.
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Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Duration: 9-month contract.
Advantages
Strategic Design Ownership: Own the full experiential lifecycle from foundational user behavioral research down to production-ready specifications.
High Stakeholder Visibility: Act as the definitive design authority, running workshops and presenting approaches directly to senior leadership.
Enterprise Design Impact: Apply specialized design rules to deliver accessible-by-default applications used across diverse, large-scale user groups.
Modern Toolchain Ecosystem: Leverage an enterprise design setup focused heavily on advanced collaborative prototyping and mapping suites.
Responsibilities
User-Centered Interface Architecture: Design, iterate, and deliver high-quality, visually compelling interfaces across web, mobile, and digital platforms to maximize user engagement and adoption.
Rapid Prototyping & Design Deliverables: Formulate and maintain critical design artifacts, including detailed user flows, comprehensive customer journey maps, sitemaps, structural wireframes, mockups, and interactive clickable prototypes optimized for multiple devices.
User Research & Behavioral Analytics: Plan, execute, and analyze qualitative and quantitative research tracks—encompassing field interviews, surveys, usability testing, and A/B testing—to uncover actionable user behaviors, motivations, and needs.
Multi-Stakeholder Facilitation & Alignment: Lead collaborative design workshops, co-creation sessions, and team reviews with technical developers and business teams to drive consensus and establish clear experience strategies.
Design System & Framework Governance: Enforce design consistency by applying structured interface standards and proven UX/UI frameworks, ensuring alignment with corporate digital service guidelines and look-and-feel paradigms.
Accessibility-First Design: Architect and validate digital assets to ensure they are inclusive and accessible by default, strictly conforming to digital compliance mandates and web content accessibility guidelines.
Technical Handoff & Specifications: Partner directly with front-end and back-end implementation teams, documenting clear design specifications, asset packages, and functional layout maps to streamline development.
Strategic Risk & Quality Engineering: Identify systemic design blockers, evaluate adoption barriers, and deliver structured risk-mitigation recommendations to senior leadership through proactive design validation.
Advisory & Knowledge Transfer: Provide expert-level technical counsel, coaching, and structured knowledge-transfer sessions to project teams to mature organizational user experience practices.
Qualifications
Core UX/UI Seniority: 8+ years of progressive professional experience leading user experience design, interface architecture, and digital product strategy across enterprise web and mobile ecosystems.
Design & Prototyping Toolkit Mastery: Expert-level, hands-on proficiency utilizing Figma, Adobe Suite, and Miro to construct shared component libraries, wireframes, and sophisticated clickable prototypes.
Research Planning & Execution: Proven experience designing and running diverse user testing models, qualitative interviews, behavioral analytics, and empirical data gathering.
Design System Acumen: Direct, practical experience implementing and designing interfaces in compliance with the Ontario Design System (ODS) framework and asset standards.
Accessibility Compliance Credentials: Deep knowledge of inclusive design principles and verified experience delivering products that strictly align with AODA and WCAG accessibility standards.
Consensus Engineering & Facilitation: Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, with a track record of running co-creation sessions and bridging alignment gaps between technical engineering teams and non-technical business partners.
SDLC & Engineering Literacy: Practical understanding of web development capabilities, technical platform limitations, and agile delivery methodologies.
Nice to Have:
Prior professional UX design or user research experience operating within the Ontario Public Service (OPS) or a broader Canadian public sector infrastructure.
Foundational familiarity with deployment workflows, issue tracking, and collaboration platforms such as Azure DevOps.
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 to drive the end-to-end design, delivery, and optimization of intuitive, accessible, and user-centered digital experiences. In this role, you will take technical and strategic ownership of crafting visually appealing web and mobile interfaces while leading comprehensive user research initiatives. Acting as a core bridge between business vision and technical execution, you will transform complex workflows into elegant design artifacts, facilitate cross-functional alignment, and ensure all digital products achieve peak usability and full regulatory compliance.
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Duration: 9-month contract.
Advantages
Strategic Design Ownership: Own the full experiential lifecycle from foundational user behavioral research down to production-ready specifications.
High Stakeholder Visibility: Act as the definitive design authority, running workshops and presenting approaches directly to senior leadership.
Enterprise Design Impact: Apply specialized design rules to deliver accessible-by-default applications used across diverse, large-scale user groups.
...
Modern Toolchain Ecosystem: Leverage an enterprise design setup focused heavily on advanced collaborative prototyping and mapping suites.
Responsibilities
User-Centered Interface Architecture: Design, iterate, and deliver high-quality, visually compelling interfaces across web, mobile, and digital platforms to maximize user engagement and adoption.
Rapid Prototyping & Design Deliverables: Formulate and maintain critical design artifacts, including detailed user flows, comprehensive customer journey maps, sitemaps, structural wireframes, mockups, and interactive clickable prototypes optimized for multiple devices.
User Research & Behavioral Analytics: Plan, execute, and analyze qualitative and quantitative research tracks—encompassing field interviews, surveys, usability testing, and A/B testing—to uncover actionable user behaviors, motivations, and needs.
Multi-Stakeholder Facilitation & Alignment: Lead collaborative design workshops, co-creation sessions, and team reviews with technical developers and business teams to drive consensus and establish clear experience strategies.
Design System & Framework Governance: Enforce design consistency by applying structured interface standards and proven UX/UI frameworks, ensuring alignment with corporate digital service guidelines and look-and-feel paradigms.
Accessibility-First Design: Architect and validate digital assets to ensure they are inclusive and accessible by default, strictly conforming to digital compliance mandates and web content accessibility guidelines.
Technical Handoff & Specifications: Partner directly with front-end and back-end implementation teams, documenting clear design specifications, asset packages, and functional layout maps to streamline development.
Strategic Risk & Quality Engineering: Identify systemic design blockers, evaluate adoption barriers, and deliver structured risk-mitigation recommendations to senior leadership through proactive design validation.
Advisory & Knowledge Transfer: Provide expert-level technical counsel, coaching, and structured knowledge-transfer sessions to project teams to mature organizational user experience practices.
Qualifications
Core UX/UI Seniority: 8+ years of progressive professional experience leading user experience design, interface architecture, and digital product strategy across enterprise web and mobile ecosystems.
Design & Prototyping Toolkit Mastery: Expert-level, hands-on proficiency utilizing Figma, Adobe Suite, and Miro to construct shared component libraries, wireframes, and sophisticated clickable prototypes.
Research Planning & Execution: Proven experience designing and running diverse user testing models, qualitative interviews, behavioral analytics, and empirical data gathering.
Design System Acumen: Direct, practical experience implementing and designing interfaces in compliance with the Ontario Design System (ODS) framework and asset standards.
Accessibility Compliance Credentials: Deep knowledge of inclusive design principles and verified experience delivering products that strictly align with AODA and WCAG accessibility standards.
Consensus Engineering & Facilitation: Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, with a track record of running co-creation sessions and bridging alignment gaps between technical engineering teams and non-technical business partners.
SDLC & Engineering Literacy: Practical understanding of web development capabilities, technical platform limitations, and agile delivery methodologies.
Nice to Have:
Prior professional UX design or user research experience operating within the Ontario Public Service (OPS) or a broader Canadian public sector infrastructure.
Foundational familiarity with deployment workflows, issue tracking, and collaboration platforms such as Azure DevOps.
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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