Senior UX Designer — Lead Accessible Public UX

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

Job summary

vTech Solution is seeking a Senior UX Designer to lead the design and delivery of complex digital products for public sector initiatives in Ontario. You will focus on user experience, accessibility, and design system alignment across web and mobile platforms.

The role requires extensive user research, interaction design, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to create user-centered, accessible experiences and drive governance-ready design systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in UX/UI/service design with senior responsibility.
• Extensive experience in user research and usability testing.
• Proficient in creating user journeys, IA, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
• Advanced proficiency with Figma, including components and handoff.
• Experience designing accessible digital experiences per AODA/WCAG.
• Experience contributing to and applying design systems with reusable components and governance.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct discovery, user research, stakeholder interviews, and usability testing to gather evidence and synthesize findings into prioritized design recommendations.
• Create user journeys, task flows, service blueprints, information architecture, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity responsive designs.
• Design and document accessible digital experiences compliant with AODA and WCAG standards.
• Contribute to, extend, and apply design systems including reusable components, patterns, tokens, and governance practices.
• Collaborate with researchers, content specialists, accessibility experts, developers, product leads, and stakeholders throughout the design process.
• Facilitate workshops, design critiques, playback sessions, and decision-making activities to build consensus and present recommendations.
• Prepare implementation-ready design specifications and support developer handoff and design-quality reviews during implementation.
• Provide senior design leadership, maintain documentation, identify risks, and advocate for user-centered, accessible design decisions.
• Deliver knowledge transfer, coaching, and documentation to enable ongoing maintenance and extension of design work.

Skills

User research

Usability testing

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Design leadership

Accessibility awareness

Figma

Education

Post-secondary degree in UX design or related field

Tools

Figma

Job description

vTech Solution is seeking a Senior UX Designer to lead the design and delivery of complex digital products for public sector initiatives in Ontario. You will focus on user experience, accessibility, and design system alignment across web and mobile platforms.

The role requires extensive user research, interaction design, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to create user-centered, accessible experiences and drive governance-ready design systems.