Salary Range: $76,111-$109,409/year. The starting salary for this position would be determined with consideration of the successful candidate’s relevant education and experience, and would be in alignment with the provincial compensation reference plan. Salary will be prorated accordingly for part time roles.

Job Summary:

In accordance with the Mission, Vision, Values and strategic direction of PHSA safety, including both patient and employee safety, is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone at PHSA’s Agencies/Divisions/Services, and as such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.

The User Experience Designer performs a variety of duties in the development of interactive websites and interactive tools. The User Experience Designer applies client based feedback to create highly interactive screen content for web based mediums using a variety of tools including HTML, CSS and Javascript. Works closely with Business Analysts and Developers. Combines best practice knowledge with end user analysis to drive decision making to ensure a highly usable product.

Duties/Accountabilities:

• Lead the development of product information architecture and visual and interface design, using analytics and metrics to make informed design decisions that ensure a highly usable product.
• Uses a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build everything a user sees and interacts with on a website—that includes everything from front-end features like fonts, sliders, drop-down menus, and buttons, to the overall manner in which web content like photos, videos, and articles are displayed in the web browser
• Conduct user research, interviews and surveys, translating them into personas, user journeys, sitemaps, workflows, wireframes, mockups, prototypes and user-testing experiences that are optimized for the web.
• Take a Lean UX user-centered design approach, rapidly testing and iterating designs by analyzing the problem, designing a solution, working with users to learn if the solution is useful and building and implementing the solution.
• Prepare digital assets for the development team.
• Quality assurance testing for the development team.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
  
  

Qualifications:

• A level of education, training and experience equivalent to a degree in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, or visual design), Human Computer Interaction, Computer science, or a related field or equivalent practical experience plus five years of UX design experience completed by a Superior skills in interaction design, information architecture, usability evaluation, and user research. Extensive experience using UX design best practices to design solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in crafting usable digital interfaces using UX software such as Adobe Suite, Sketch, or In-Vision is a must.
• Good understanding of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript. JavaScript frameworks like Ember, AngularJS, React, etc, or JS-based build tools like Grunt, Gulp, and Bower. Libraries like jQuery or Backbone. Front-end (CSS) frameworks like Foundation or Bootstrap. AJAX.
• Familiarity with Accessibility standards and how to apply them.