Contract Senior UX/UI Designer: Website Strategy & Design
About The Position
Kanopi Studios is seeking a Contract Senior UX/UI Designer (Website Strategy & Design) for a fully remote, contract-based engagement. This role involves leading and supporting discovery, shaping UX and content strategy, creating information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs. The designer will present work to clients and internal teams, explain recommendations, and contribute to Kanopi's sales and marketing processes by engaging with prospective clients, contributing to proposals, and sharing Kanopi's point of view through marketing and thought leadership. The ideal candidate is strategic, designs with care, communicates clearly, and helps make the web work better for everyone. The engagement is managed by the Director of Strategy and Creative.
Requirements
- Senior-level, hands-on UX/UI design experience for complex, content-rich websites, with a strong portfolio that shows your process from discovery and strategy through high-fidelity visual design
- Strong visual design craft, including layout, typography, hierarchy, brand application, responsive design, and accessible UI patterns
- Advanced Figma skills, including prototyping, design systems, component workflows, and client-ready presentation files
- Advanced knowledge of UX strategy, content strategy, information architecture, and content experience principles
- A minimum of 5 years working as a senior level creative within an agency environment
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to adapt your message for designers, developers, and clients, making complex ideas clear, useful, and actionable for each audience
- A collaborative approach to untangling complex creative and strategic challenges, with a focus on practical, thoughtful solutions
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada, reside in British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon, or the Northwest Territories, and be available for regular collaboration during Pacific Time business hours.
Nice To Haves
- Coding experience
- Working knowledge of WordPress and/or Drupal
- Experience working in the higher-education, mission-driven or healthcare sectors
Responsibilities
- Lead Project Discovery
- Conduct interest-holder interviews
- Translate research and client input into actionable design direction
- Assess qualitative and quantitative datasets and formulate meaningful recommendations that balance user and business goals.
- Conduct UX, content and design audits and articulate your findings to internal and client teams.
- Conduct and synthesize actionable insights from user research and testing
- Develop Information architecture and content strategy
- Synthesize information architecture, navigation and sitemap strategy
- Conduct content audits and gap analysis
- Develop tone, voice and taxonomies to guide content creation
- Understand and articulate how content strategy shapes design
- Produce visual design and strategy artifacts including, but not limited to: Wireframes, Page templates, Interactive prototypes, Full-fidelity visual comps, UI component libraries and static or interactive responsive design systems
- Act as a senior creative voice in sales conversations
- Help uncover client goals, risks, constraints, and opportunities during pre-sales discovery
- Contribute design and strategy perspective to proposals, estimates, scopes, and project approaches
- Contribute to Kanopi thought leadership through webinars, blog posts, case studies, conference ideas, or educational content
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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