Front End Designer – Senior

Front-End Designer – Digital Service Modernization
Location: Fully Remote with Occasional Team Meetings in Edmonton, AB
Duration: 1 Year + Potential for Extension
Description:
We’re seeking up to three Front-End Designers to support a major public-sector initiative focused on modernizing digital services, improving user experience, and driving innovation across government programs.
This work is part of a broader mandate to streamline services, introduce modern digital practices, and create simpler, more intuitive experiences for residents. You’ll be joining a central digital design and delivery team that champions human-centred design, agile methods, and data-driven decision making.
About the Role
As a Front-End Designer, you’ll collaborate within cross-functional teams including product owners, researchers, developers, and service designers to rethink and reimagine how public services are delivered. These teams conduct end-to-end digital transformation, from researching current service challenges to designing, testing, and launching improved solutions.
The work is iterative and fast-paced, evolving with user needs, business priorities, and technical opportunities.
Responsibilities:
• Designing creative, evidence-based front-end solutions aligned to established design standards.
• Producing foundational design artifacts such as wireframes, prototypes, pattern libraries, component libraries, style guides, and build-ready design specifications.
• Planning and supporting design research, including user interviews, field studies, or usability testing.
• Presenting clear, justified recommendations that support team alignment and decision-making.
• Actively participating in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, reviews, demos, and retrospectives.
• Creating usability test plans and evaluation reports for current and future designs.
• Assessing design accessibility and providing recommendations to meet applicable accessibility requirements.
Must-Have Experience
• Demonstrated experience as a Front-End Designer focused on enhancing and delivering digital services across web or other digital platforms.
• Experience creating key UX artifacts such as scenarios, journey storyboards, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Experience working within a cross-functional Agile product team.
• Ability to explore and present multiple design approaches to solve a problem.
• Experience producing designs for multiple device types (web, mobile, etc.).
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards, including WCAG.
• Experience using modern design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Axure, etc.).
• Familiarity with current design thinking and digital delivery methodologies.
Nice-to-Have Experience
• Experience contributing to or maintaining design systems or component libraries.
• Experience working on digital transformation projects in the public sector or within a central digital office.

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