UX Designer Senior
UX Designer Senior
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Job Description
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 & 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.
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.
Tools & 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.
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.
Employment Type
Full-time
