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Senior UI/UX Designer & UX Strategist Category: Software Development/ Engineering
Main location: Canada, Quebec, Saguenay
Position ID:J1026-1491
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description: Senior UI/UX Designer and UX Strategist
Help shape digital experiences that truly transform the way people work
CGI is looking for a bilingual Senior UI/UX Designer and UX Strategist to support strategic digital initiatives in direct collaboration with senior leadership.
This role is ideal for a professional who combines strategic vision, strong business acumen and hands-on UI/UX expertise. You will transform ideas, complex business needs and loosely defined challenges into intuitive, efficient and user-centered digital experiences.
Acting as a trusted advisor to executives and key stakeholders, you will provide expert recommendations, challenge existing approaches when appropriate and turn strategic concepts into user journeys, wireframes, prototypes and actionable design deliverables.
Work mode: Remote
Location: Saguenay
Your future duties and responsibilities: Your role
• Work directly with the president and executive-level stakeholders to understand business objectives and strategic priorities.
• Facilitate discovery workshops and stakeholder discussions to identify user needs, pain points and opportunities for improvement.
• Translate complex business challenges into UX strategies, user journeys, information architectures and clear navigation flows.
• Design functional wireframes, intuitive interfaces and interactive prototypes to validate concepts and support decision-making.
• Optimize the user experience of websites, client portals, e-commerce platforms, chatbots and business applications.
• Identify opportunities to improve the simplicity, usability and efficiency of digital products and business processes.
• Present findings, recommendations and design decisions clearly to senior leadership.
• Influence decisions and help prioritize solutions based on business value and user needs.
• Produce clear and actionable deliverables, including findings, recommendations, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes and action plans.
• Collaborate with development, product, business and technology teams to ensure the effective implementation of proposed solutions.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role: Your Profile
• Significant experience in UI/UX design, UX strategy or digital product design, ideally in a senior or expert-level role.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or an equivalent combination of education and experience;
• Minimum of 7 to 10 years of relevant software development experience;
• Bilingualism in French and English is required.
Required qualifications and experience
• Demonstrated ability to transform complex business challenges into clear and effective user experiences.
• Proven experience working with executives, senior managers and high-level stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation and influencing skills.
• Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and move discussions toward decisions.
• Strong balance between strategic UX thinking and hands-on design execution.
• Experience creating user journeys, functional wireframes, prototypes and other UX deliverables.
• Experience working across multiple digital environments and business contexts.
• Strong autonomy, initiative and comfort working in ambiguous or changing environments.
• A portfolio demonstrating both strategic thinking and the ability to deliver tangible design solutions.
• Excellent written and spoken French and English.
Nice to have
• Consulting experience with executives on digital transformation, customer experience or business process optimization initiatives.
• Knowledge of user research, usability testing, information architecture, interaction design and design thinking.
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, FigJam, Adobe XD or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with design systems, accessibility standards and user-centered design practices.
• Understanding of the technical constraints associated with Web, mobile and business application development.
*Proficiency in English, both written and spoken, is required, as the successful candidate will regularly collaborate with colleagues and partners located in the United States and other regions.
CGI provides a reasonable estimate of the salary range for this position. The determination of this range depends on various factors, including skill level, geographic market, experience, education, and professional licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions are based on the specific circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the salary range for this position is $65,000 to $120,000. This position is currently open.
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Bilingualism (French and English) is required for this position due to the nature of the role requiring interaction with national and global clients.
Skills: - French
- Communication
- Customer relation
- Leadership
- UX design
- UX Strategy
