UX Designer

Yoush Consulting; Toronto; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Senior UX Designer in Toronto to lead projects from strategy to implementation. The designer will facilitate user research, create clickable prototypes, and ensure compliance with usability and accessibility standards. Candidates should have over 3 years of experience in UX design best practices, and be familiar with user-centered design processes and agile methodologies. This role offers the chance to significantly impact user experience and product success.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in UX design best practices.
• Ability to iterate designs efficiently.
• 3+ years of experience in complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the Kickoff meeting with the project team.
• Conduct user research activities.
• Produce clickable prototypes.
• Validate prototypes through usability testing.
• Analyze usage analytics to measure KPIs.

Skills

UX design best practices

Mobile-first design

Responsive design

Usability testing

User-centered design

Agile methodologies

Job description

Welcome to Yoush Consulting. Are you an independent IT Consultant, or do you wish to become one? Are you looking to partner with an organization that offers you consulting opportunities and supports you as a partner? If you answered yes to any of these, then please send us your resume to [e-mail]

We are looking for a senior UX designer that can take a new initiative from strategy to implementation.

Before building a solution, a project team needs to find out whether users need it and whether other solutions exist. The UX Designer’s responsibilities during this phase are to build an understanding of the problem space/statement, the long and short-term business goals, and the user and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the Kickoff meeting with the project team to produce such outputs as:
• Facilitate user research activities to produce such outputs as:
• User Storyboard to communicate a story through images displayed in a sequence of panels that chronologically map the story’s main events.
• Produce “clickable” prototypes of multiple possible solutions.
• Validate “clickable” prototypes with users through usability testing sessions and produce research findings report.
• User story creation and validation.
• Conduct accessibility compliance testing of the solution within each iteration.
• Conduct regular usability testing sessions on the MVP built as part of the Beta phase.
• Conduct regular accessibility compliance testing of the live build as improvements are released.
• Conduct regular usability testing sessions on the live build.
• Analyze usage analytics and user behaviour patterns to track and measure key performance indicators.

Requirements

• 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‑centered design processes and agile (scrum) methodologies.