RQ11744 - UX Designer - Senior

Maarut; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Maarut is seeking a Senior UX Designer to lead user research, service design, and interaction design for a suite of enterprise platform features and government services. You will work with product managers, architects, developers, and accessibility specialists to produce reusable design patterns and detailed specifications.

The role requires expertise in personas, journey mapping, service blueprints, and information architecture, along with strong usability testing and accessibility skills to

Qualifications

• Experience leading design for complex transactional services.
• Experience developing journeys, service blueprints, wireframes, prototypes, and interaction specifications.
• Knowledge of AODA and WCAG requirements.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead user research, service design, interaction design, and validation activities.
• Identify user needs, behaviours, pain points, accessibility requirements, and service expectations.
• Develop personas, journeys, service blueprints, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, and design specifications.
• Design consistent experiences across enterprise platform capabilities and onboarded services.
• Facilitate co-design workshops, design reviews, and collaborative working sessions.
• Conduct usability and accessibility evaluations and translate findings into design improvements.
• Maintain traceability between user needs, business requirements, and design decisions.
• Support developers and testers to ensure accurate implementation of approved designs.
• Contribute reusable patterns, standards, and components to the enterprise platform design system.

Skills

User-centred design

Service design

Interaction design

Information architecture

Wireframes

Prototyping

Usability testing

Accessibility evaluation

Design system

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Job description

Leads user-centred and service design for enterprise platform features and onboarded government services, ensuring that Ontario businesses can access and manage services through a consistent, intuitive, inclusive, and accessible experience. The role plans and conducts user research, journey mapping, service blueprinting, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, usability testing, and accessibility evaluation across account, profile, dashboard, form, workflow, notification, document, delegation, and service-discovery experiences. Working with users, ministry partners, product managers, business analysts, architects, developers, accessibility specialists, and testers, the Senior UX Designer translates evidence and service needs into practical designs and reusable patterns. The role supports implementation through detailed specifications and design reviews, validates delivered experiences, and contributes to the ongoing maturity of the enterprise platform design system and enterprise service experience.

Experience:

• Experience leading user experience and service design for complex transactional digital services.
  
• Experience planning and conducting user research, stakeholder interviews, contextual inquiry, usability testing, and design validation.
  
• Experience creating personas, journey maps, service blueprints, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed interaction designs.
  
• Experience designing account-based experiences, dashboards, forms, workflows, notifications, document interactions, and service discovery.
  
• Knowledge of user-centred design, service design, interaction design, content design, and design-thinking methods.
  
• Experience designing accessible services in accordance with AODA and applicable WCAG standards.
  
• Experience applying enterprise design systems, reusable components, and consistent interaction patterns.
  
• Experience designing responsive experiences for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
  
• Experience collaborating with product managers, analysts, developers, architects, accessibility specialists, and testers.
  
• Experience presenting research findings, design options, and recommendations to business and executive stakeholders.
  

General Skills / Duties:

• Plan and lead user research, service design, interaction design, and validation activities.
  
• Identify user needs, behaviours, pain points, accessibility requirements, and service expectations.
  
• Develop personas, journeys, service blueprints, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, and design specifications.
  
• Design consistent experiences across enterprise platform capabilities and onboarded services.
  
• Facilitate co-design workshops, design reviews, and collaborative working sessions.
  
• Conduct usability and accessibility evaluations and translate findings into design improvements.
  
• Maintain traceability between user needs, business requirements, and design decisions.
  
• Support developers and testers to ensure accurate implementation of approved designs.
  
• Contribute reusable patterns, standards, and components to the enterprise platform design system.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Experience leading design for complex transactional services.
  
• Experience developing journeys, service blueprints, wireframes, prototypes, and interaction specifications.
  
• Knowledge of AODA and WCAG requirements.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

User-Centred and Service Design Experience:

• Experience leading design for complex transactional services.
  
• Experience developing journeys, service blueprints, wireframes, prototypes, and interaction specifications.
  

User Research and Usability:

• Experience conducting research, usability testing, synthesis, and design validation with diverse user groups.
  

Accessibility and Design Standards:

• Knowledge of AODA and WCAG requirements.
  
• Experience applying enterprise design systems and accessible interaction patterns.
  

Communication and Collaboration:

• Excellent visual, written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills.
  
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary Agile teams and senior stakeholders.