Senior Front End Designer

Job Title: Senior Front End Designer
Job Location: Edmonton, AB, T6H 5T6
Pay Rate: $90/hr - $98/hr
Duration: 12 Months

T his is a Remote role. Work must be done within Canada.

Job Details:
Services and project deliverables should evolve as the work progresses, in response to emerging user and business needs, as well as design and technical opportunities. However, the following must be delivered (iteratively) over the course of the project:
• 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.


Location of Work
The Front End Designer will primarily work remotely; however, the Front End Designer is expected to attend meetings or work sessions often (i.e. quarterly) in Alberta on reasonable notice.

Work Experience (Must have)

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

Work Experience (Nice to have)

• Experience building and maintaining component libraries/design systems.
• 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.
• Experience in production design for multiple digital devices (web, mobile, etc.) or complex enterprise applications.
• Experience using accessibility standards and principles including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• Experience with current methodologies and design thinking, especially in relation to improving service experience.
• Experience with frontend design applications such as Axure, Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, etc.
• 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
• Experience working in a dedicated public sector central digital office.