UX Specialist
4 weeks ago
**Reports To**
The UX Specialist will report to the CEO and COO.
**Job Overview**
As a UX Specialist you will be conducting user research, exploring user behaviour, and working with the UX Designer, Product Managers, Data Analysts and Digital Marketers in developing products for all our stakeholders.
You will be responsible for conceptualizing and implementing product and website improvements as well as evaluating usability and task success rates.
To be successful in this role, you should have experience with design software and wireframe tools. Additionally, you should be comfortable developing personas, journey maps and facilitating UX workshops.
**Responsibilities and Duties**
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative research to understand user behaviour
- Discover patterns and insights through interviews, surveys, card sorting, journey mapping, usability testing, and more
- Conduct usability testing, gather feedback and measure task success
- Create personas through user research and data
- Find creative ways to solve UX problems (e.g. usability, findability)
- Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and digital marketing specialists
- Conduct and facilitate UX workshops to gather feedback, generate ideas and solve problems
- Present research findings and provide recommendations for improvement based on research
- Develop wireframes, prototypes, storyboards and process flows that illustrate system functionality and visual design related to customer needs
- Communicate design ideas and prototypes to developers
- Assist the team in making design decisions based on evidence that directly impact ROI
**Requirements**:
- Post-Secondary Education in Design, Computer Science or relevant field
- Excellent communication skills in English and French
- Proven experience as a UX Researcher, UX Designer, or similar role
- Experience conducting user research and measuring usability metrics
- Experience developing UI mockups, wireframing and prototyping Knowledge of design software like Adobe Photoshop. Adobe XD, Sketch and Figma, UXPin, Balsamiq
- Familiarity with interaction design and information architecture
- Problem-solving and analytical aptitude
**Assets**
- Knowledge of HTML/CSS; JavaScript
- Intermediate Knowledge of Microsoft Excel (VBAs, Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP etc.)
- Government of Canada Security Screening
**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
**Salary**: $65,000.00-$75,000.00 per year
**Benefits**:
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Application question(s):
- Have you completed a Government of Canada security clearance?
- Are you a Canadian Citizen?
**Language**:
- English (required)
- French (required)
Licence/Certification:
- UX Certification (preferred)
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