HM Note: This hybrid contract role is five (5) days in office. Candidates resumes must include first and last name.
Description
Responsibilities:
Create effective user friendly and visually appealing interfaces. Design the overall functionality of the product in order to ensure a great user experience iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing. Design user interfaces
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
- We are seeking a UX Designer to support the development of the Enterprise Data Product Practice the Data Product Practice Portal and several 360 data products. This role will focus on creating user-centered accessible and visually appealing designs that make complex information easy to use across the Ontario Public Service.
- The ideal candidate will be passionate about simplifying complexity enabling adoption and championing user-centered design across diverse teams.
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
User Experience / Product Design (40%)
- Create effective user-friendly and visually appealing interfaces for data products portals and analytics tools.
- Design overall product functionality to ensure great user experience; iterate based on user testing.
- Lead user research activities (interviews surveys usability studies) and synthesize insights into sitemaps flows wireframes prototypes and design recommendations.
- Facilitate workshops (e.g. journey mapping co-design sessions usability testing) to inform design decisions.
- Ensure all designs comply with accessibility standards (AODA WCAG 2.1) and align with OPS/enterprise design systems.
- Experience designing for data products (dashboards portals analytics tools) simplifying complex information for diverse users.
- Ability to design for adoption and onboarding ensuring broad usability and uptake across teams.
Communications and amp; Collaboration (25%)
- Collaborate with product managers developers and data teams in agile environments to integrate UX throughout the product lifecycle.
- Ability to clearly communicate design decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong communication skills to prepare reports assessments and design documentation.
- Champion and coach OPS partners in user-centered design methods to build organizational UX maturity.
- Team player with a track record of meeting deadlines managing competing priorities and maintaining client relationships.
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Agile Product Development (20%)
- Experience working in agile sprint-based development environments.
- Understanding of iterative product development cycles (Discovery Agile Beta Live).
- Ability to align design deliverables with broader product development activities and constraints.
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Tools and amp; Technical (15%)
- Proficiency with design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma Miro Adobe XD).
- Strong understanding of accessibility requirements and enterprise design systems.
- Knowledge of web development limitations and appropriate use of technologies.
- Experience gathering user feedback to improve existing interfaces.
- Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant practical solutions.
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Desirable Skills
- Familiarity with Ontario Digital Service Design Standards or equivalent government design frameworks.
- Experience with SharePoint design/customization.
- Knowledge of service design principles and end-to-end experience design.
- Knowledge of data visualization principles and accessibility for dashboard/reporting design.
- Experience contributing to or extending enterprise design systems
Must Have:
- Create effective user-friendly and visually appealing interfaces for data products portals and analytics tools.
- Design overall product functionality to ensure great user experience; iterate based on user testing.
- Lead user research activities (interviews surveys usability studies) and synthesize insights into sitemaps flows wireframes prototypes and design recommendations.
- Facilitate workshops (e.g. journey mapping co-design sessions usability testing) to inform design decisions.
- Collaborate with product managers developers and data teams in agile environments to integrate UX throughout the product lifecycle.
- Ability to clearly communicate design decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Understanding of iterative product development cycles (Discovery Agile Beta Live).
- Proficiency with design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma Miro Adobe XD).
- Strong understanding of accessibility requirements and enterprise design systems.
Nice to have:
- Familiarity with Ontario Digital Service Design Standards or equivalent government design frameworks.