Senior UX Design Lead

Dotfusion; Canada; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Flexible hours

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Dotfusion is seeking a Senior UX Design Lead to own the strategic and creative direction across enterprise web and custom projects, guiding the design pod from research to delivery. You may also contribute hands-on when needed, ensuring alignment with client goals.

This contract, fully remote role requires 8+ years in senior UX/UI design, fluency with design systems, headless architectures, and a track record mentoring designers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of senior UX/UI design experience for web apps and custom projects.
• Proven ability to lead design work and mentor others.
• Strong UX core skills: research, IA, wireframes, user flows.
• Fluent in UI design, systems, and reusable components.
• Experience with headless and component-based builds.
• Knowledge of WCAG accessibility integrated into design direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery, research, and information architecture for projects.
• Set design direction and ensure accessibility is built in from the start.
• Present design thinking to clients as the senior design voice.
• Direct and review the design pod, ensuring written requirements flow to QA.
• Leverage AI to accelerate concepts, assets, and drafting in workflows.

Skills

UX Leadership

UX Strategy

Information Architecture

User Research

Figma

Design Systems

Accessibility

Headless/Composable

Education

Design degree (preferred)

HCI background (preferred)

Tools

Storyblok

Contentful

Agility CMS

Job description

Dotfusion has been pioneering enterprise platform modernization since 1999, transforming legacy systems like Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, and WordPress into cutting‑edge headless and composable architectures.

We specialize in commercial real estate, manufacturing, large non‑profits, financial services, and travel and hospitality. We deliver full‑service digital transformations combining strategy, UX design, engineering, content migration, and agentic AI workflows.

As one of the few Certified B Corporations in the digital transformation space, we use business as a force for good. We partner with CMS providers like Agility CMS, Contentful, and Storyblok to build AI‑ready composable platforms. Our portfolio includes large‑scale projects and long‑term partnerships with organizations like Oxford Properties, Brookfield, and Mitsubishi.

Role Description

As a Senior UX Design Lead, you will own the strategic and creative direction of design across our enterprise web and custom projects, and lead the design pod that delivers it. Your core value is the strategic thinking: you take client research, inputs, and goals and turn them into a clear direction that guides the whole project. You set the standard and you are accountable for the pod's output. Depending on project size, you'll also take on hands‑on execution yourself, so comfort moving between strategy and craft matters.

You'll present design thinking directly to clients as a trusted advisor, set the direction your designers execute against, and own the through‑line from client requirements to delivered build so nothing falls through the gap between design and development. You'll work closely with our project managers and developers to keep design central to how work ships.

This is a contract engagement, scaled to project need. You operate at a senior level that needs little oversight and holds our white‑glove quality bar. Fully remote and open to candidates anywhere, overlapping at least half of your working hours with Eastern Time for client and team collaboration.

What You'll Do

You will lead discovery, research, and information architecture, and set the design direction for each project. You'll define what good looks like, with accessible design built in as a baseline, and hold that standard across everything the pod produces.

You will present design and strategic recommendations directly in client meetings as the senior design voice. Clients will trust the thinking, not just the visuals, and you'll own the design relationship end to end.

Leading the Design Pod

You will direct and review the designers in your pod, set their briefs, and own the quality of their output. You'll hold the requirements through‑line as a standard, so every client requirement is captured in writing, reflected in the design, and verifiable at QA, and you'll keep handoffs clean enough that developers build without coming back.

AI in the Workflow

You will use AI to accelerate concepts, asset variation, and requirements drafting, keeping design judgment, client strategy, and the final direction with you.

Qualifications

You bring 8+ years of senior UX/UI design for web applications and custom projects, and a track record of leading design work that others execute. You are strong across the UX core (research, information architecture, wireframes, user flows) and fluent in UI and design systems. You work in Figma, you understand headless and component‑based builds, and you design in reusable, systematized components. You understand accessibility (WCAG) and build it into the direction you set. You set direction, define standards, and are comfortable being accountable for a team's output. You document requirements in writing as standard practice.

Client & Communication

You have multi‑industry experience and lead client‑facing meetings with strategic recommendations. You're a vision‑caster who shapes direction, not only responds to a brief. You work closely with project managers and developers. You do what you say and own the gaps, you anticipate what's needed, you carry low ego, and you're both kind and direct.

Strong Assets

Familiarity with our stack conventions (Storyblok, Contentful, Agility), experience establishing or extending design systems at scale, and a history of leading or mentoring other designers are strong assets.

Education

A degree in design, HCI, or a related field is a plus. A senior portfolio and a track record of strategic, client‑facing design leadership matter more.

Why Dotfusion

Impact. Work on large‑scale enterprise transformations with measurable outcomes for prominent organizations. You'll help build systems that fundamentally change how clients operate.

Craft. We take UX, architecture, and execution seriously. Your work will be enterprise‑grade and world‑class.

AI at the Core. We're building agentic content operations and AI‑ready platforms. You'll experiment with emerging tools, put real automation to work, and help clients prove AI ROI.

Values in Action. As a Certified B Corporation, we support equitable practices, sustainability, and social impact as operating principles, not marketing.

Autonomy. You'll have real decision‑making authority and trust from leadership to experiment and innovate.

Team. Work with senior strategists, designers, and engineers who respect craft, complexity, and the potential of AI to transform enterprise operations.

Partnership. Lead at this level and you become the design partner clients ask for by name and the anchor of our design pod, our first call on new work.

Competitive project or day rate, scaled to the engagement. Remote‑first with flexible hours.

Dotfusion is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.