22 Oct
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Symbiotic Group
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Toronto
22 Oct
Symbiotic Group
Toronto
Downsview Central, Canada | Posted on 10/06/2026
We are seeking an experienced UX/UI Designer to createeffective, user-friendly, and visually appealing digital experiences. The rolefocuses on user-centred design, research, prototyping, testing, and continuousiteration across web and mobile applications.
The successful candidate will work closely with businessstakeholders, developers, QA specialists, and other cross-functional teammembers to translate user needs into intuitive interfaces and digitalexperiences. The position requires strong hands-on UX/UI capabilities,experience leading UX activities and workshops, and the ability to manageend-to-end user research.
This is an onsite position requiring 5 days onsite.
Key Responsibilities
- Createeffective, user-friendly, and visually appealing interfaces.
- Designoverall product functionality to deliver a strong user experience andcontinuously iterate designs based on user testing.
- Designuser interfaces for digital displays, publications, media, and othercreative materials as required.
- Applya user-centred design approach and rapidly test and iterate designs.
- Conceiveand conduct user research, interviews, and surveys.
- Translateresearch findings into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps,wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.
General Skills | 55%
- Relevantexperience creating GUI designs based on user interaction and performance.
- Experienceas a UX Designer, Interactive Designer, UI Designer, or similar roledesigning web and mobile applications.
- Abilityto define and lead UX projects, design workshops, and alignment sessionswith stakeholders and business users.
- Experiencemanaging end-to-end user research,
from recruiting through synthesis.
- Proficiencywith design and prototyping tools.
- Thoroughunderstanding of the limitations and appropriate use of web developmenttechnologies.
- Experiencedesigning online programs with an emphasis on the emotional aspects ofhuman experience.
- Experienceconceiving and conducting user research, interviews, and surveys andtranslating findings into sitemaps, user flows, user journey maps,wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive userexperiences.
- Experiencedesigning overall product functionality and iterating based on usertesting.
- Experiencedesigning and delivering wireframes, user stories, user flows, userjourneys, mockups, and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devicesand interfaces.
- Experienceresearching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testingexperiences for digital products across a wide range of devices andinterfaces.
- Experienceidentifying design problems and devising elegant solutions.
- Experiencemaking strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core andnew functions and features.
- Experiencegathering user feedback to configure existing interfaces.
- Team-orientedapproach with a track record of meeting deadlines, managing competingpriorities, and managing stakeholder relationships.
- Experiencewith Figma, Canva,
and similar tools.
Communication Skills | 30%
- Demonstratedability to prepare explicit, concise, and comprehensive documentation,including reports, reviews, and assessments.
- Skilledat communicating design concepts and development processes clearly todiverse stakeholders.
- Demonstratedeffectiveness working with cross-functional teams, including developers,QA specialists, and business stakeholders, to achieve shared projectgoals.
- Demonstratedexperience working collaboratively with team members at differentorganizational levels.
- Knowledgeof accessibility testing.
- Abilityto work with the Ontario Design System.
- Knowledgeof digital service standards.
- Experienceaddressing complex design challenges, particularly involving legacysystems and nuanced stakeholder/approval relationships.
- Abilityto design with accessibility in mind and meet WCAG 2.1 AA requirements.
Prior Public Service Experience | 5%
- public-sector experience is considered an asset.
Must-Have Qualifications
- Relevantexperience creating GUI designs based on user interaction and performance.
- Experienceas a UX Designer, Interactive Designer, UI Designer, or similar roledesigning web and mobile applications.
- Abilityto define and lead UX projects, design workshops, and alignment sessionswith stakeholders and business users.
- Experiencewith Figma, Canva, and similar tools.
- Demonstratedeffectiveness working closely with cross-functional teams, includingdevelopers, QA specialists, and business stakeholders, to achieve commonproject goals.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- PriorOPS/publ
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