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
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