Lead, User Experience Design
Lead, User Experience Design
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At Ontario Health we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province. Our vision is that together we will be a leader in health and wellness for all. Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes experiences and value. How we work together is reflected through our five values: integrity inspiration tenacity humility and care.
What Ontario Health offers:
Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:
Fully paid medical dental and vision coverage from your first day
a health care spending or wellness spending account
a premium defined benefit pension plan
three personal days and two float days annually
three weeks vacation to start (for individual contributors) increasing to four weeks after two years
career development opportunities
a collaborative valuesbased team culture
a wellness program
a hybrid working model
participation in Communities of Inclusion
Want to make a difference in your career Consider this opportunity.
TheLead User Experience Designis responsible for aligning with a customer experience strategy while delivering the user experience (UX) of one or more digital products and making sure the resulting products and technology are usable intuitive and accessible to the people using them. You will be responsible for representing customer needs delivering on customer journeys and applying a solid understanding of usercentered design principles. The Lead should be comfortable consulting and working with diverse product teams including working alongside program managers and clinical specialists product managers business analysts developers content writers QA/testers and support teams to execute on product plans and releases. The Lead should also be comfortable communicating and presenting user research and product designs to senior stakeholders and key partners.
Ontario Healths goal is to support patients and providers throughout their health care journey and deliver consistent efficient and desirable customer experiences at all levels. Reporting to the Senior Manager Experience Design and working closely with product and business teams the Lead User Experience will ensure that Ontario Health products and services are following UX best practices and aligned with the Customer Experience Strategy at Ontario Health. You will be responsible for creating UX artifacts like user research plans and test reports user flows wireframes highfidelity mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate user interactions and design ideas.
Here is what you will be doing:
- Translates user research business requirements and user requirements into streamlined Customer Journey Maps and User Flows on which to build user experience design solutions for the product.
- Rationalizes solutions and effectively communicates ideas and designs via Sitemaps User Flows Wireframes Prototypes and highfidelity mockups. Consults and guides technical developers content writers and QA to align with the desired user experience and specifications.
- Creates wireframes mockups and prototypes in accordance with the UX design framework and product brand guidelines and specifications.
- Ensures every piece of information and data surfaced on UI is useful and relevant to users needs.
- Creates maintains and validates UX artifacts such as Customer Journey Maps User Personas User Scenarios Information Architecture User Flows and Prototypes.
- Develops an understanding of the Ontario governments Digital Service Standards and supporting processes to adhere to the standard across any assigned projects or digital products.
- In collaboration with other members of the UX Team develops and maintains UX design patterns product brand guidelines and specifications and product UX design framework. Designs refines and aims to establish consistent coherent and accessible OH experiences across all digital products and services.
- Provides advice and expertise to other employees on CX and UX technical leadership or guidance to others. Leads project teams in design thinking activities.
- Makes decisions and provides advice that impacts immediate colleagues and possibly the productivity or financial performance of the program. Results of actions may also affect related programs or stakeholders and tactical solutions are required to correct negative consequences.
- Provides service by probing current and future client needs requiring a full understanding of possible service options to design a solution that looks beyond immediate needs and builds an ongoing relationship.
- Leads and provides subject matter expertise to program projects and initiatives identifying risks issues and impacts.
- Identifies improvement opportunities and escalates key issues/risks to the Manager; proposes and executes solutions.
- Leads design review sessions with product teams to acquire consensus challenges teams to create a cohesive user experience and gains approvals for product designs and features.
- Leads the identification and definition of who is the customer. Acts as the subject matter expert and advocate for the customer on product teams including knowledge of customer needs behaviours and workflows. Produces supporting artifacts including personas and journey maps when required.
- Leads the planning design and facilitation of UX Research (remote and inperson) with representative customers (e.g. patients and caregivers health care providers health care administrative staff) working with product owners and customer support staff.
- Leads or oversees the development of user interface copy to ensure alignment with user needs and business requirements and deliver engaging accessible and highquality content. Consults various stakeholders including senior leadership and sponsors on assigned projects. Develops an understanding of project goals and ensures key user experience activities are built into project plans.
- Identifies opportunities for change to improve processes amongst projects.
- Contributes to the implementation and optimization of DesignOps processes to streamline design and research workflows enhance collaboration and improve efficiency across the UX team.
- Performs work within general policies and with the ability to work autonomously to determine what tasks should be completed according to agreedupon goals. The Manager reviews major or nonroutine tasks only.
- Exercises latitude in determining objectives in support of department and project goals.
- Makes decisions and provides advice that impacts immediate colleagues and possibly the productivity or financial performance of the program. Results of actions may also affect related programs or stakeholders and tactical solutions are required to correct negative consequences.
Here is what you will need to be successful:
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors or Masters degree required.
- 57 years of related work experience in a UX or CX role.
- Certification or courses in UXrelated fields is preferred.
- Extensive experience with wireframing product visual design and prototyping tools such as Adobe XD Figma InVision Mural or other similar tools.
- Indepth knowledge and understanding of responsive design practices and demonstrated experience with designing for multiple devices.
- Demonstrated expertise in AODA and accessible design standards.
- Experience with using Confluence Wiki JIRA or similar tools.
- Experience and understanding of User Experience Design processes and tools.
- Experience and understanding of Agile Processes in product development.
- Experience with multiple modes of UX Research such as surveys focus groups interviews task analysis contextual inquiry card sorting and ethnographic research.
- Indepth knowledge of User Personas User Scenarios User Flows Information Architecture and Customer Experience maps.
- Demonstrated indepth knowledge and understanding of UX design principles UX research methodologies UI design and usability guidelines through strong handson experience and a compelling portfolio.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to influence others reach consensus with active listening and empathy; consult with various stakeholders including senior leadership and sponsors; lead review sessions with product teams.
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills to investigate and research issues interpret information and make minor to moderate modifications to existing procedures as needed; identify improvement opportunities; propose options for risks.
- Ability to work closely with the UX Team Lead and other members of the UX Design Team to develop compelling user experiences across OH platforms including recommendations to present to stakeholders and making final decisions between competing designs to align with the UX vision and the longterm product roadmap.
- Ability to foster positive and effective working relationships at all levels.
- Exceptional leadership skills.
- Strong critical thinking skills.
- Strong ability to work autonomously and with a team.
- Ability to work effectively in a fastpaced environment with a high degree of change and quickly shift priorities and adapt to meeting changing requirements.
- Ability to use discretion in dealing with sensitive issues and maintaining appropriate levels of confidentiality.
- Ability to draw conclusions based on relevant standards data information and personal knowledge and experience.
- Excellent emotional intelligence required to consult with and gather feedback from stakeholders program leaders and project team members. Includes the ability to engage with end users for research understanding and analysis. The ability to empathize with end users is critical.
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Location: Ontario (currently hybrid; subject to change)
Employment Type:
Permanent Full timeContract Length:
N/ASalary Band:
Band 6External Application Deadline Date:
May 21 2025All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.
Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations Mtis Inuit and urban Indigenous; Francophone; members ofBlack and racializedgroups; 2SLGBTQIA communities; trans and nonbinary individuals;and people living with disabilities.
Ontario Health is an accessible employer and we offer accommodation in all aspects of employment including the recruitment process. If you require a disability related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process please email and a member of the team will connect with you within 48 hours.
Employment Type
Full-Time
