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, interaction architecture, and user research capacity, specializing in conceiving and delivering intuitive, accessible, and visually appealing digital products across web and mobile applications.
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As a Senior UX Designer, you will bridge the gap between business goals, complex system functionalities, and end-user needs. Operating fully onsite in Toronto, you will lead end-to-end user research, facilitate design alignment workshops with key stakeholders, establish user flows, and build interactive wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes. This position demands a creative design authority with deep proficiency in Figma and UI design tools, a strong understanding of web development capabilities and limitations, and hands-on experience designing in alignment with modern design systems and digital service standards.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Onsite (5 days per week)
Contract Duration: 6-month contract (with potential for extension)
Advantages
End-to-End Design Ownership: Lead complete UX lifecycles from participant recruiting and field research to high-fidelity prototyping and user testing.
Design System Integration: Gain direct experience utilizing the Ontario Design System and aligning solutions with Digital Service Standards.
High-Impact Collaboration: Facilitate interactive alignment sessions and workshops with cross-functional technical teams, business leads, and executive stakeholders.
Accessibility-First Focus: Design inclusive, accessible user interfaces compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA standards across complex web and mobile platforms.
Responsibilities
Define, lead, and execute user experience design strategies for enterprise web and mobile applications from concept through implementation.
Plan, manage, and conduct end-to-end user research, including participant recruiting, interviews, surveys, usability testing, and synthesis of research findings.
Facilitate design workshops, discovery sessions, and alignment meetings with business users, product managers, and key stakeholders.
Translate research insights and business goals into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes.
Design intuitive Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) optimized for interaction, usability, visual appeal, and device responsiveness.
Rapidly iterate upon design prototypes using tools like Figma based on continuous usability testing, user feedback, and technical constraints.
Utilize and contribute to established design systems, such as the Ontario Design System, ensuring strict adherence to Digital Service Standards.
Collaborate closely with front-end developers, QA specialists, and software architects to ensure design feasibility and smooth implementation.
Identify complex interaction problems, navigate legacy system constraints, and engineer elegant, user-centered design solutions.
Ensure all digital interfaces and design assets are created with accessibility at their core, meeting WCAG 2.1 AA requirements.
Prepare clear technical design documentation, design specs, user stories, and presentation materials for multidisciplinary teams.
Qualifications
Core Requirements & UX Expertise
UX/UI Design Tenure: Demonstrated experience as a UX Designer, UI Designer, Interactive Designer, or similar role designing web and mobile applications.
Research & Synthesis: Proven experience managing end-to-end user research—from recruiting participants to conducting interviews and synthesizing actionable design insights.
Workshop Facilitation: Strong experience defining and leading UX projects, design workshops, and alignment sessions with business users and stakeholders.
Prototyping & Tooling: High proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools, specifically Figma, Canvas, and comparable software.
Design Systems & Standards: Practical experience working with the Ontario Design System and a solid working knowledge of Digital Service Standards.
Technical Understanding: Thorough understanding of the capabilities, limitations, and appropriate uses of web development technologies.
Preferred Assets & Accessibility Standards
Accessibility Mastery: Proficient in designing inclusive interfaces compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility guidelines and accessibility testing methods.
Legacy Transformation: Experience navigating complex design challenges, legacy system integrations, and multi-layered stakeholder approval environments.
Public Sector Context: Prior experience within public sector environments or large enterprise organizations is considered a strong asset.
Soft Skills & Delivery Attributes
Stakeholder Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex design decisions clearly to diverse audiences.
Collaborative Leadership: Demonstrated effectiveness working within multidisciplinary teams (developers, QA, business leads) while balancing competing project priorities and deadlines.
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, interaction architecture, and user research capacity, specializing in conceiving and delivering intuitive, accessible, and visually appealing digital products across web and mobile applications.
As a Senior UX Designer, you will bridge the gap between business goals, complex system functionalities, and end-user needs. Operating fully onsite in Toronto, you will lead end-to-end user research, facilitate design alignment workshops with key stakeholders, establish user flows, and build interactive wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes. This position demands a creative design authority with deep proficiency in Figma and UI design tools, a strong understanding of web development capabilities and limitations, and hands-on experience designing in alignment with modern design systems and digital service standards.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Onsite (5 days per week)
Contract Duration: 6-month contract (with potential for extension)
Advantages
...
End-to-End Design Ownership: Lead complete UX lifecycles from participant recruiting and field research to high-fidelity prototyping and user testing.
Design System Integration: Gain direct experience utilizing the Ontario Design System and aligning solutions with Digital Service Standards.
High-Impact Collaboration: Facilitate interactive alignment sessions and workshops with cross-functional technical teams, business leads, and executive stakeholders.
Accessibility-First Focus: Design inclusive, accessible user interfaces compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA standards across complex web and mobile platforms.
Responsibilities
Define, lead, and execute user experience design strategies for enterprise web and mobile applications from concept through implementation.
Plan, manage, and conduct end-to-end user research, including participant recruiting, interviews, surveys, usability testing, and synthesis of research findings.
Facilitate design workshops, discovery sessions, and alignment meetings with business users, product managers, and key stakeholders.
Translate research insights and business goals into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes.
Design intuitive Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) optimized for interaction, usability, visual appeal, and device responsiveness.
Rapidly iterate upon design prototypes using tools like Figma based on continuous usability testing, user feedback, and technical constraints.
Utilize and contribute to established design systems, such as the Ontario Design System, ensuring strict adherence to Digital Service Standards.
Collaborate closely with front-end developers, QA specialists, and software architects to ensure design feasibility and smooth implementation.
Identify complex interaction problems, navigate legacy system constraints, and engineer elegant, user-centered design solutions.
Ensure all digital interfaces and design assets are created with accessibility at their core, meeting WCAG 2.1 AA requirements.
Prepare clear technical design documentation, design specs, user stories, and presentation materials for multidisciplinary teams.
Qualifications
Core Requirements & UX Expertise
UX/UI Design Tenure: Demonstrated experience as a UX Designer, UI Designer, Interactive Designer, or similar role designing web and mobile applications.
Research & Synthesis: Proven experience managing end-to-end user research—from recruiting participants to conducting interviews and synthesizing actionable design insights.
Workshop Facilitation: Strong experience defining and leading UX projects, design workshops, and alignment sessions with business users and stakeholders.
Prototyping & Tooling: High proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools, specifically Figma, Canvas, and comparable software.
Design Systems & Standards: Practical experience working with the Ontario Design System and a solid working knowledge of Digital Service Standards.
Technical Understanding: Thorough understanding of the capabilities, limitations, and appropriate uses of web development technologies.
Preferred Assets & Accessibility Standards
Accessibility Mastery: Proficient in designing inclusive interfaces compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility guidelines and accessibility testing methods.
Legacy Transformation: Experience navigating complex design challenges, legacy system integrations, and multi-layered stakeholder approval environments.
Public Sector Context: Prior experience within public sector environments or large enterprise organizations is considered a strong asset.
Soft Skills & Delivery Attributes
Stakeholder Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex design decisions clearly to diverse audiences.
Collaborative Leadership: Demonstrated effectiveness working within multidisciplinary teams (developers, QA, business leads) while balancing competing project priorities and deadlines.
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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