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 user experience design, product strategy, and user research capacity, specializing in developing strategies that optimize user interactions with digital, user-centric products and services.
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As a senior UX designer, you will lead complex digital service initiatives from initial concept through to production. Operating fully onsite in Toronto within an Agile product development environment, you will execute end-to-end user research, establish high-bar user experience standards, synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights, and deliver production-ready design artifacts. This position demands a creative design authority who can utilize Figma and XDstudio, collaborate effectively with cross-functional technical teams, and clearly present evidence-based design rationale to business stakeholders.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Onsite (5 days per week)
Contract Duration: 6-month contract (with potential for extension)
Advantages
End-to-End Leadership: Lead complex digital service design initiatives from concept to production while setting user experience standards.
Modern Prototyping Tools: Deepen proficiency with industry-leading software including Figma and XDstudio.
Data-Driven UX Design: Combine generative research, evaluative testing, web analytics, and user metrics to inform design strategies.
Agile Product Delivery: Collaborate within cross-functional Agile squads alongside business leads, developers, and fellow designers.
Responsibilities
Design effective, accessible, and visually compelling interfaces for web and mobile applications across various digital touchpoints.
Lead end-to-end product design lifecycle activities, rapidly testing and iterating interface designs based on usability feedback.
Plan, conduct, and analyze generative and evaluative user research, including user interviews, surveys, and participant testing.
Synthesize research findings into clear design artifacts, such as empathy maps, user personas, customer journey maps, service blueprints, and affinity maps.
Create mood boards, collaboration boards, information architectures, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes.
Incorporate web analytics, performance metrics, and user feedback into strategic design decisions and feature configurations.
Facilitate design discussions, alignment workshops, and negotiation sessions with business stakeholders and technical teams.
Provide clear design rationales in group settings, presenting recommendations and advisory insights to project leads.
Collaborate closely with developers to ensure the feasibility and faithful implementation of design specifications.
Qualifications
Core Requirements & UX Experience
Strategic UX Leadership: Proven experience and expertise developing and executing user-centered design strategies for complex digital products and services.
End-to-End Design & Research: Demonstrated experience leading design from concept to production, including creating user research plans, facilitating testing, and maintaining UX performance measures.
Design Artifact Creation: Hands-on experience producing mood boards, empathy maps, user flows, wireframes, mockups, interactive prototypes, and information architecture.
Prototyping Software: Advanced, mandatory hands-on experience using Figma and XDstudio.
Agile Collaboration: Experience working within Agile product delivery teams, sharing design tasks, and iterating work based on continuous feedback.
Preferred Assets
Front-End Development Knowledge: Practical experience or familiarity with coding in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a strong asset.
Design Portfolio: Candidates must provide a link to a digital portfolio showcasing relevant case studies and design deliverables.
Soft Skills & Delivery Attributes
Communication & Advisory: Exceptional ability to communicate designs, articulate rationale, and advise diverse stakeholders clearly.
Facilitation & Problem Solving: Strong workshop facilitation skills paired with systematic problem-solving capabilities to address complex design challenges.
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 user experience design, product strategy, and user research capacity, specializing in developing strategies that optimize user interactions with digital, user-centric products and services.
As a senior UX designer, you will lead complex digital service initiatives from initial concept through to production. Operating fully onsite in Toronto within an Agile product development environment, you will execute end-to-end user research, establish high-bar user experience standards, synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights, and deliver production-ready design artifacts. This position demands a creative design authority who can utilize Figma and XDstudio, collaborate effectively with cross-functional technical teams, and clearly present evidence-based design rationale to business stakeholders.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Onsite (5 days per week)
Contract Duration: 6-month contract (with potential for extension)
Advantages
...
End-to-End Leadership: Lead complex digital service design initiatives from concept to production while setting user experience standards.
Modern Prototyping Tools: Deepen proficiency with industry-leading software including Figma and XDstudio.
Data-Driven UX Design: Combine generative research, evaluative testing, web analytics, and user metrics to inform design strategies.
Agile Product Delivery: Collaborate within cross-functional Agile squads alongside business leads, developers, and fellow designers.
Responsibilities
Design effective, accessible, and visually compelling interfaces for web and mobile applications across various digital touchpoints.
Lead end-to-end product design lifecycle activities, rapidly testing and iterating interface designs based on usability feedback.
Plan, conduct, and analyze generative and evaluative user research, including user interviews, surveys, and participant testing.
Synthesize research findings into clear design artifacts, such as empathy maps, user personas, customer journey maps, service blueprints, and affinity maps.
Create mood boards, collaboration boards, information architectures, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes.
Incorporate web analytics, performance metrics, and user feedback into strategic design decisions and feature configurations.
Facilitate design discussions, alignment workshops, and negotiation sessions with business stakeholders and technical teams.
Provide clear design rationales in group settings, presenting recommendations and advisory insights to project leads.
Collaborate closely with developers to ensure the feasibility and faithful implementation of design specifications.
Qualifications
Core Requirements & UX Experience
Strategic UX Leadership: Proven experience and expertise developing and executing user-centered design strategies for complex digital products and services.
End-to-End Design & Research: Demonstrated experience leading design from concept to production, including creating user research plans, facilitating testing, and maintaining UX performance measures.
Design Artifact Creation: Hands-on experience producing mood boards, empathy maps, user flows, wireframes, mockups, interactive prototypes, and information architecture.
Prototyping Software: Advanced, mandatory hands-on experience using Figma and XDstudio.
Agile Collaboration: Experience working within Agile product delivery teams, sharing design tasks, and iterating work based on continuous feedback.
Preferred Assets
Front-End Development Knowledge: Practical experience or familiarity with coding in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a strong asset.
Design Portfolio: Candidates must provide a link to a digital portfolio showcasing relevant case studies and design deliverables.
Soft Skills & Delivery Attributes
Communication & Advisory: Exceptional ability to communicate designs, articulate rationale, and advise diverse stakeholders clearly.
Facilitation & Problem Solving: Strong workshop facilitation skills paired with systematic problem-solving capabilities to address complex design challenges.
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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