Senior UX Designer

We are seeking a Senior UX Designer to lead the creation of intuitive, user-centred digital solutions. This role focuses on designing high-quality products using mobile-first and responsive design principles. You will navigate complex projects through the full design lifecycle—from Discovery to Live—ensuring that user research, rapid prototyping, and iterative testing drive every design decision. Working within an Agile framework, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver accessible and visually engaging experiences.

Pay Rate: $520.12- $556.28/Diem

Advantages
- Influence the product lifecycle from initial discovery and user interviews through to live deployment.

- Utilize a wide variety of industry-leading UX tools (Figma, Sketch, Creative Cloud) in a collaborative environment.

- Work within a "balanced team" structure alongside dedicated Product Owners and Developers.

- Gain experience following high-standard design playbooks and structured public-sector-aligned delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities
- Apply UX best practices to design solutions that solve complex user problems, emphasizing mobile-first and responsive frameworks.

- Efficiently create and iterate on designs, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes based on user feedback and technical feasibility.

- Facilitate user research activities, including interviews, scripts, and topic mapping. Synthesize observations into actionable Research Findings Reports.

- Participate in Scrum delivery methodologies, working closely with Product Owners and Developers to ensure design alignment with development sprints.

- Lead usability testing sessions to validate designs. Incorporate accessibility compliance testing to ensure products are inclusive for all users.

- Communicate design processes and ideas effectively to stakeholders, using a distributed model to regularly deliver solutions for approval.

- Produce key deliverables following standard playbooks across distinct phases: Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live.

- Act as a mediator between business teams and technical staff to ensure products progress according to schedule and overcome resistance to change.

Qualifications
- 3+ years of relevant experience participating in complex, large-scale product designs within an Agile environment.

- Expert-level proficiency in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, InVision, Axure, JustInMind, and Zeplin.

- Deep understanding of responsive design patterns and mobile-first architecture.

- Degree or diploma in Graphic Design; certification in Usability, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or Technical Writing is highly preferred.

Strong background in User Research synthesis, aggregation, and observation analysis.

Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Node.js) is considered a strong asset.

Exceptional presentation and negotiation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex design solutions to non-technical audiences.

Summary
If you're interested in the 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.