RQ00786 UX Researcher Senior

RQ00786 - UX Researcher - Senior

Up to 3 days onsite (subject to HMs discretion) -525 University Avenue

6 month contract (Business Days 142.00)

Must Haves:

1. End-to-end UX/CX research 7 years
2. Research planning participant recruitment conducting usability testing heuristic evaluations synthesis and delivering actionable recommendations.
3. Inclusive UX/UI and Service Design for complex digital products 7 years
4. Translating research and requirements into user flows journey maps information architecture wireframes prototypes and high-fidelity AODA-compliant designs.
5. Cross-functional delivery in complex regulated environment 5 years
6. Working effectively with product clinical business technical vendor change and communications teams in a complex regulatory environment.
7. Public Sector experience (highly preferred)

Description:

The Patients Before Paperwork (Pb4P) initiative is a comprehensive program aimed at reducing the administrative burden on Primary Care Providers in Ontario through the use of digital tools and processes. This initiative supports both new and existing digital health projects that work together to minimize traditional paper-based workflows such as faxing referrals and prescriptions writing clinical notes and manually completing forms.

The purpose of this request is to acquire a resource to support and deliver assigned CX/UX activities and artifacts across one or more Pb4P workstreams working under the direction of CX/UX Leads and/or Senior Managers. The resource will collaborate with users business clinical product change management technical and vendor partners to gather qualitative and quantitative insights validate workflows and support user-centred product and service design outcomes that help reduce administrative burden for clinicians and health care providers.

Required:

• Experience developing research plans and supporting participant recruitment including defining research objectives methods participant criteria screeners scheduling discussion guides consent/privacy materials and honorarium management
• Experience conducting CX/UX research including user interviews usability testing heuristic evaluations surveys and secondary research
• Strong ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative research findings into clear prioritized and actionable insights themes pain points risks and opportunities
• Significant hands-on experience translating research insights and requirements into user-centred UX/UI designs for complex web-based applications including information architecture task flows wireframes clickable prototypes and high-fidelity mockups
• Proven experience applying Customer Experience and Service Design approaches including the development of personas journey maps service blueprints ecosystem maps and current- and future-state user flows
• Strong workflow and task-flow analysis skills including the ability to work with business product clinical technical and vendor stakeholders to identify pain points validate assumptions assess solution feasibility and translate findings into practical improvement opportunities.
• Experience designing inclusive accessible digital services that meet AODA and WCAG 2.1 Level AA expectations across research prototyping usability testing and UI review activities
• Experience working with UI guidelines design systems reusable components pattern libraries and accessibility standards in Figma Adobe XD or equivalent tools
• Strong written verbal and facilitation skills including the ability to support or facilitate remote workshops and produce clear decision-ready documentation for product teams leadership and partners
• Ability to liaise effectively with cross-functional leads from business product clinical technical communications change management and support teams
• Ability to work independently with some direction from CX/UX Leads while managing ambiguity competing priorities risks assumptions and dependencies

Responsibilities:

• Work under the direction of the UX/CX Senior Managers and collaborate with Experience Leads and cross-functional partners to support experience design priorities research activities and delivery across assigned workstreams.
• Partner with business product clinical change management technical and vendor teams to understand user needs service context business goals technical constraints and implementation considerations
• Plan coordinate and support CX/UX research activities including stakeholder and user interviews usability testing surveys heuristic evaluations and secondary research.
• Coordinate participant recruitment inputs screeners consent materials schedules and logistics for research and validation activities.
• Support workshop planning facilitation and documentation including preparation of materials activities outputs and follow-up actions.
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative research findings into clear insights experience opportunities risks assumptions for validation and prioritized recommendations.
• Document current- and future-state workflows user flows task flows and service blueprints at appropriate audience levels to identify pain points gaps risks and improvement opportunities
• Translate research insights and requirements into practical design outputs including information architecture wireframes prototypes UI content mockups and interaction patterns.
• Support iterative product and service design by validating workflows assumptions usability solution feasibility and artifact readiness and approvals with SMEs and cross-functional partners and incorporating feedback into design outputs
• Collaborate with communications change management and training partners to ensure user-facing materials reflect research insights and support adoption planning.
• Manage translation coordination and review of UI copy where required.
• Conduct usability testing and accessibility reviews to assess ease of use clarity task completion and alignment with AODA/WCAG Level AA requirements.
• Review product team or vendor deliverables and provide feedback or guidelines related to usability accessibility consistency content clarity and alignment with CX/UX best practices.
• Document findings design rationale decisions risks and recommendations in a clear actionable format for product teams partners and leadership.
• Deliver assigned experience artifacts and ensure they follow established templates standard operating procedures governance approval and storage requirements
• Provide weekly status updates to the product team UX Leads Project Manager and Senior Managers on progress and blockers.
• Other duties as assigned by management

Desired Skills:

• Certification training or demonstrated professional development in CX UX Service Design Human-Centred Design or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting complex digital health public sector or highly regulated transformation initiatives.
• Experience working across multiple concurrent products services or workstreams with competing priorities.
• Familiarity with health care provider workflows clinical environments or digital health solutions.
• Experience supporting Voice of Customer programs.
• Experience using collaboration tools such as Miro Mural FigJam or similar.
• Experience contributing to or applying design systems UI pattern libraries and content standards.

Required Experience:

• Experience with research planning execution synthesis and presentation of actionable insights
• Experience creating experience artifacts such as user flows service blueprints journey maps prototypes wireframes design mock-ups and recommendations
• Experience with cross-functional workstream delivery facilitation support and documentation
• Experience designing solutions for complex digital workflows in a highly regulated environment
• Hands-on experience designing and testing for AODA/WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance

Deliverables include but are not limited to:

For the following Pb4P-related workstreams: eReferral/Standardized Referral Forms (SRF) and Central Intake

• Research plans including usability testing screeners and discussion guides and test scripts
• Comparative analysis
• Personas
• Current and future-state user flows
• Service blueprints
• User journey maps
• Heuristic evaluation report with prioritized recommendations
• Research synthesis and insights reports with prioritized recommendations
• UX/UI guidelines
• Product design wireframes and final mockups
• Draft UI copy decks and translations
• AODA audit report with list of prioritized defects
• Artifact review packages or approval-ready artifacts
• Regular status reports to leadership

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Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $74.71/hr - $89.65/hr Inc.

T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $59.77/hr - $71.72/hr T4

Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $74.71/hr - $89.65/hr Inc.

T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $59.77/hr - $71.72/hr T4