UX Lead / UI-UX DPretty isn't the bar. Provable is.
Most portfolios are full of things that look great in Dribbble shots and fall apart in front of real users, real content, and a real accessibility audit.
We're drafting a UX Lead for a multi-year, public-sector digital program in Canada, and the bar is different here. Your work gets used by everyone, on every device, in more than one language including a non-Latin script, and it has to pass WCAG 2.2 Level AA without excuses.
This is a roster, not a 9-to-5. You apply, we screen hard, you make the bench. When the program calls, you get called up, and a call-up is a guaranteed full time block, paid premium for premium work.
The seat: UX Lead / UI Designer. One person, both halves.
Most teams split research from visual design and lose the plot in the handoff. This program doesn't. The person who ranks the tasks and runs the tree tests is the person who designs the templates, so nothing gets lost between what users need and what ships. That dual capability is rare, and that is exactly why we are drafting for it early.




What this seat owns
Discovery research run against a method, not vibes: stakeholder analysis, interviews and workshops, remote community focus groups, analytics review, top-task ranking. BABOK-style elicitation, so every requirement traces to evidence.
Information architecture argued from data: card sorting, the sitemap, and remote unmoderated tree testing with 30 to 50 participants against an agreed success rate. You design the study, student researchers run the logistics, and you interpret the results.
Personas and journeys for two audiences: the public, and the editors who will run the site every day.
Mobile-first wireframes for users on constrained connections, where every kilobyte is a design decision.
Design system adoption: taking an existing, proven system and adapting it to a brand. That is a different skill from designing components from zero, and it is the skill this program pays for.
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