Overview
RQ10899 – UX Designer – Intermediate Jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at S M Software Solutions Inc
Title: RQ10899 – UX Designer – Intermediate
Company: S M Software Solutions Inc
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
If you are interested kindly send the following documents to [email protected] by Tuesday, Apr 21, 10:00 AM EST if that interests you and matches your profile.
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Client: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement
Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Onsite
Estimated Start Date: 2026-04-13
Estimated End Date: 2027-03-31
#Business Days: 252.00
Extension: 254.00
Hours per day or Week: 7.25 hours per day
Security Level: No Clearance Required
Must Have
- Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
- Ability to iterate your designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in participating in complex projects (products) of different sizes, ensuring alignment to plans, best practices and incorporating user-centred design processes and agile (scrum) methodologies.
- Must have Figma experience.
- Expertise in UX software such as JustIn Mind, In Vision, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, Axure, and Zeplin. HTML5, CSS3, and JS skills (React, Angular, NodeJS), Azure DevOps are a plus.
- Strong communication skills – lead meeting and present to stakeholders.
- Prior experience with Service Design framework and established design systems.
Nice Have
- OPS or Public experience
- Knowledge of DABL (discovery, alpha, beta, Live)
Responsibilities
Role overview:
- 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 for various projects such as digital displays, publications, media, and other creative materials as required.
- Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate the designs.
- Conceive and conduct user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes
General Skills
- Relevant experience creating GUI designs based on user interaction and performance
- Experience as a UX designer, interactive designer, UI designer, or similar role, designing for web and mobile applications
- Proficiency with design and prototyping tools
- Thorough understanding of the limitations and appropriate use of web development technologies
- Experience in designing online programs with emphasis in the emotional aspects of human experience
- Experience conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, user journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences
- Experience designing the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing
- Experience designing and delivering wireframes, user stories, user flows, user journeys, mockups and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
- Experience facilitating the client's product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products and optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
- Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions
- Experience making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
- Experience gathering user feedback to configure existing interfaces
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience
Desirable Skills
- Knowledge of network security and network protocolsBottom of FormBottom of Form
Experience And Skill Set Requirements
User Experience Design – 40%
- Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
- Ability to iterate your designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in participating in complex projects (products) of different sizes, ensuring alignment to plans, best practices and incorporating user-centred design processes and agile (scrum) methodologies.
- Degree or diploma in graphic design; degree or certification in usability, human-computer interaction, and technical writing a plus
- Experience in facilitate User Research and Usability testing. Accessibility compliance testing is a plus.
- Experience in facilitate User Research and Usability testing activities to produce such outputs as:
- User Interview Topic Maps
- User Interview Scripts
- User Interview Synthesis (collection, aggregation and analysis) of written observations recorded during each interview
- User Research Findings Report
Relationship Management – 20%
- Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client projects (products) are progressing according to schedule
- Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects – Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies
- Ability to deliver on a (project) product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) by participating in Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies
Technical Skills – 30%
- Expertise in UX software such as JustIn Mind, In Vision, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, Axure, Figma, and Zeplin. HTML5, CSS3, and JS skills (React, Angular, NodeJS), are a plus.
Soft skills – 10%
- Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
- Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
- Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
Note
- 5 days onsite
