Intermediate UX Designer

We are seeking a talented and detail-oriented Intermediate UX Designer to create intuitive, accessible, and visually compelling user interfaces across web and mobile platforms. In this role, you will take a user-centered design approach to rapidly research, prototype, test, and iterate design solutions. Working closely with cross-functional Agile product teams, product owners, and developers, you will translate complex business requirements into seamless sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes using established design systems and best practices.

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)

Duration: 8-month contract.

Advantages
End-to-End UX Scope: Drive full-lifecycle design from initial user research and wireframing to high-fidelity Figma prototyping and usability testing.

Established Framework Focus: Hands-on design execution using modern service design frameworks and enterprise design systems.

Cross-Functional Influence: Collaborate directly with balanced Agile product teams to shape core feature functionality and digital experiences.

Dedicated Onsite Environment: Engage and present design concepts directly to stakeholders in a focused, 5-day onsite workspace.

Responsibilities
User-Centered Interface Design: Create clean, intuitive, and accessible user interfaces and overall product functionality across digital displays, web applications, and mobile platforms.

User Research & Usability Testing: Conceive, facilitate, and execute user research, interviews, and usability testing sessions; synthesize findings into research reports, topic maps, and actionable design iterations.

UX Deliverables & Prototyping: Develop sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes tailored for responsive and mobile-first experiences.

Design System Integration: Utilize and contribute to established design systems and service design frameworks to ensure consistency across product features and platforms.

Agile Collaboration: Partner closely with balanced product teams (Product Owners, Developers, QA) using Agile (Scrum) delivery methodologies to iterate designs efficiently.

Stakeholder Facilitation: Lead meetings and present design concepts, ideas, user flows, and strategic UX decisions to key business stakeholders to build alignment and consensus.

Qualifications
UX & UI Design Seniority: 3+ years of relevant experience participating in complex software/digital product design projects utilizing user-centered design processes and Agile (Scrum) methodologies (Strictly Required).

Design Tooling Proficiency: Hands-on expertise using Figma alongside familiarity with tools such as InVision, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, Axure, JustInMind, or Zeplin (Strictly Required).

Responsive & Mobile-First Best Practices: Deep understanding and extensive experience applying UX design best practices for mobile-first and responsive web applications (Strictly Required).

Service Design & Design Systems: Practical experience working within established design systems and service design frameworks (Strictly Required).

Stakeholder Communication: Exceptional presentation, verbal, and written communication skills to lead design walkthroughs and defend UX decisions before business leadership (Strictly Required).

Education & Credentials: Degree or diploma in Graphic Design; additional background or certification in Usability, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or Technical Writing is a strong plus.

Nice-to-Have Assets:
Prior experience with public sector digital service delivery models (e.g., Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live phases).

Basic front-end development awareness (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/React/Angular) or exposure to Azure DevOps.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Intermediate 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.

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