Ux developer Jobs in Toronto, ON

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, research, and product strategy capacity, specializing in creating effective, accessible, and visually appealing interfaces for complex web and mobile applications.

As a senior UX designer, you will bridge the gap between user needs, business objectives, technical constraints, and design systems. Operating fully onsite in Toronto, you will lead end-to-end design initiatives—facilitating alignment workshops, managing user research, crafting intuitive user journeys and wireframes, and rapidly prototyping solutions. This position is tailored for a collaborative design authority who can apply user-centered principles, design with accessibility standards in mind, and translate complex requirements into elegant digital experiences.

Location: Toronto, ON

Assignment Type: Onsite (5 days per week)

Contract Duration: 12-month contract (with potential for extension)

Advantages
End-to-End Design Ownership: Drive full-lifecycle UX/UI design across research, wireframing, prototyping, user testing, and final UI delivery.

Modern Design Systems & Tools: Utilize tools like Figma and Canvas while applying established enterprise design systems and accessibility guidelines.

Strategic Stakeholder Leadership: Define and lead UX workshops, design sessions, and research synthesis with multi-disciplinary partners.

Accessibility-First Product Design: Engineer intuitive, inclusive interfaces aligned with WCAG 2.1 AA standards and digital service benchmarks.

Responsibilities
Design user-centered, accessible, and visually compelling interfaces for web and mobile applications.

Define and lead end-to-end UX projects, facilitating alignment sessions, design workshops, and strategy meetings with business users and stakeholders.

Conceive, plan, and conduct user research, interviews, and surveys, synthesizing findings into sitemaps, user flows, journey maps, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes.

Design the overall product functionality to ensure an intuitive user experience, rapidly iterating designs based on feedback and usability testing results.

Apply established enterprise design systems and component libraries to build cohesive digital products across diverse viewports and devices.

Identify complex design challenges, evaluate technical constraints, and devise elegant, scalable UX solutions.

Collaborate closely with developers, business analysts, QA specialists, and product leads to ensure seamless implementation of design specs.

Present design concepts, wireframes, and user research findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Maintain comprehensive design documentation, design assets, and component libraries.

Qualifications
Core Technical & UX Design Requirements
UX/UI Design Experience: Proven experience as a UX Designer, UI Designer, Interactive Designer, or similar role designing complex web and mobile applications.

User Research & Artifacts: Demonstrated experience conceiving and conducting end-to-end user research, user testing, and translating insights into user journeys, wireframes, sitemaps, and prototypes.

Design Workshops & Stakeholder Leadership: Ability to define and lead UX projects, design workshops, and alignment sessions with business stakeholders and users.

GUI & Prototyping Tools: Expertise creating GUI designs based on user interaction principles, utilizing modern tools such as Figma, Canvas, or equivalent software.

Design Systems: Hands-on experience building and designing with enterprise design systems (such as the Ontario Design System or comparable design frameworks).

Preferred Assets
Accessibility Standards: Knowledge of digital accessibility standards, accessibility testing, and designing to meet WCAG 2.1 AA requirements.

Public Sector Context: Prior experience within a public sector or broader public service environment is nice to have.

Digital Standards: Familiarity with modern digital service standards and navigating legacy system design challenges.

Soft Skills & Professional Attributes
Communication & Presentation: Skilled in conveying complex design concepts, user flows, and development processes clearly to diverse stakeholders.

Collaboration & Relationship Management: Proven effectiveness working across cross-functional teams, managing competing priorities, and building strong working relationships under tight 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!

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