Job Description

• Creative, evidence-based front-end design solutions for digital service delivery. Solutions must be aligned with corporate design methods and standards.
• Foundational design of artifacts on a variety of platforms and fidelities, such as prototypes and wireframes, design pattern libraries and components, graphic design style guides, and fully documented build-ready design specifications.
• Plans for design research components.
• Justifiable recommendations for design decisions to ensure alignment of project teams, program areas, and senior management.
• Participation in agile project management processes and ceremonies such as sprint planning, sprint review, demos, and retrospectives.
• Usability test plans and reports evaluating the effectiveness of current and future designs.
• Analysis and recommendations on design accessibility to ensure compliance with applicable standards.

Must Have

• Experience as a Front End Designer, designing and enhancing services via web and other channels – 2 years.
• Experience developing UX artifacts, including streamlined scenarios, storyboards, wireframes, flows, and interactive prototypes – 2 years.
• Experience working within a cross-functional product team in an Agile environment – 2 years.

Nice to Have

• Experience building and maintaining component libraries/design systems – 2 years.
• Experience exploring multiple design solutions to a given problem or feature, and communicating those solutions visually through sketches, user flows, wireframes, functional prototypes, and/or high-fidelity designs, as necessary – 2 years.
• Experience in production design for multiple digital devices (web, mobile, etc.) or complex enterprise applications – 2 years.
• Experience using accessibility standards and principles, including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines – 2 years.
• Experience with current methodologies and design thinking, especially in relation to improving service – 2 years.
• Experience with front-end design applications such as Axure, Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, etc. – 2 years.
• Experience working as a Front End Designer on a project comparable in size and complexity to the service innovation, program review, and/or digital transformation projects such as the GoA – 2 years.
• Experience working in a dedicated public sector central digital office (e.g., UK Government Digital Service; Ontario Digital Service; British Columbia Government Digital Experience; GoA Digital Innovation Office or its successors) – 2 years.