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About the role

  • Senior UX Content Designer improving content standards, research operations, and design systems. Supporting EDC’s digital experiences for Canadian exporters through accessible, scalable practices.

Responsibilities

  • Support development, maintenance, and governance of enterprise content design standards, guidelines, patterns, and best practices
  • Establish and evolve content standards promoting consistency, accessibility, clarity, and usability
  • Conduct content reviews and provide recommendations aligned with standards and guidelines
  • Partner with UX designers, accessibility specialists, product teams, and stakeholders to support content practice adoption
  • Integrate content standards into design systems, templates, components, and delivery workflows
  • Develop and maintain resources, examples, and documentation for content standards
  • Incorporate WCAG requirements and plain language principles into content standards
  • Coordinate user research activities with internal stakeholders and external research partners
  • Support participant recruitment, screening, scheduling, communications, logistics, documentation, consent, and tracking
  • Assist with research synthesis, findings documentation, theme identification, insights, and recommendations
  • Maintain research repositories, knowledge management practices, templates, and operational processes
  • Liaise with internal teams and external research vendors
  • Coordinate vendor activities, timelines, deliverables, and communications; monitor progress and escalate risks
  • Support procurement, onboarding, invoicing, and administrative vendor processes
  • Improve design operations processes, governance, standards, templates, repositories, and ways of working
  • Support planning, coordination, tracking, onboarding, knowledge-sharing, training, and enablement initiatives
  • Assist with metrics and reporting on adoption, effectiveness, and design practice maturity
  • Contribute to consistent, accessible, usable digital content experiences and stronger stakeholder partnerships

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Content Design, UX Writing, Design Operations, or a related discipline
  • Experience creating, maintaining, or governing UX content standards, guidelines, design systems, or content frameworks
  • Strong understanding of user-centered design, inclusive design, digital content best practices, and information architecture
  • Experience conducting content reviews and applying content standards to digital products and experiences
  • Experience supporting enterprise design systems, content systems, or component libraries
  • Experience managing content repositories, taxonomy, terminology, or information architecture assets
  • Familiarity with qualitative and quantitative research methods, synthesis techniques, and insight development
  • Experience coordinating user research activities, participant recruitment, or research operations
  • Knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive content design practices, including WCAG
  • Experience facilitating workshops, training, onboarding, or practice enablement activities
  • Strong organizational, planning, and project coordination skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience working within large-scale enterprise digital product environments
  • Experience building relationships across multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience developing governance models, standards, or operating practices for UX content design and UX research
  • Experience measuring adoption and effectiveness of standards, frameworks, or operational programs
  • Familiarity with Figma, Miro, Mural, UserTesting, Dovetail, Fable Engage, Azure DevOps, Microsoft 365, or similar platforms
  • Fluently bilingual in English and French is an asset
  • Ability to work legally in Canada at the time of application, preferably as a Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident
  • Must meet government security screening requirements

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits package
  • 3 to 4 weeks paid vacation
  • Corporate closure period
  • Summer early Fridays
  • No-meeting Fridays
  • Hybrid work options
  • Continuous learning opportunities, including training programs, workshops, and language training
  • Diverse and inclusive workplace
  • Wellness initiatives
  • Mental health support
  • Fitness programs
  • Volunteer opportunities
  • Social responsibility programs
  • Accommodation support during recruitment

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$96,557 - CA$128,743 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Azure

Location requirements

HybridOttawaCanada

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