About this opportunity
We are looking to add an experienced UI/UX Technical Designer to play a critical role in shaping the user experience of the Digital Health & Discovery Platform (DHDP). The Digital Health and Discovery Platform, a research initiative led by the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI), is a federated AI and data-sharing software product for advancing disease research. The DHDP operates by bringing its software to where the data is located, analyzing it there, and delivering the results back to the platform and user.
Reporting to the Senior Product Manager, the UI/UX Technical Designer will lead user research, design intuitive user interfaces and workflows, support usability validation activities, and help establish a consistent and accessible user experience across DHDP platform components. Working closely with the Engineering Team and Data Team, the UI/UX Technical Designer will help ensure platform features, workflows, and user interactions are designed to meet the needs of researchers, data stewards, project teams, and other stakeholders.
This is a full-time, temporary position until March 2027.
About the Terry Fox Research Institute
The Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI), named for Canadian icon Terry Fox, is built on Terry's dream to end cancer through research. Established in 2007, TFRI is a registered charity and invests its funds in cutting-edge cancer research through highly collaborative, team-oriented programs and national research networks. Together with its many research and funding partners, TFRI empowers Canada’s brightest researchers to seek out new transformational and precision medicine discoveries to advance our understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer with the goal of significantly improving outcomes for patients.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and maintain UI components, design patterns, and user interface standards that support a consistent and scalable platform experience.
- Develop and maintain user personas and journey maps for key user groups, including data stewards, researchers, principal investigators (PIs), and future user communities as DHDP expands.
- Conduct user research activities including but not limited to interviews, workshops, usability testing, and workflow analysis to better understand user needs and platform requirements.
- Translate user research findings and platform requirements into wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and design recommendations.
- Ensure consistency of user interfaces and interactions across platform modules, partner-facing applications, and future platform extensions.
- Collaborate with DHDP Engineering and external teams or vendors to design intuitive interfaces and workflows that balance user experience goals with technical feasibility and platform constraints.
- Communicate design concepts, recommendations, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences as needed.
- Gather, analyze, and communicate user feedback while collaborating with the QA Specialist and DHDP Engineering team to ensure user experience considerations are incorporated into testing and release readiness activities.
- Contribute to backlog refinement, requirements gathering, and user story development.
- Support the continuous improvement of DHDP user experiences through ongoing user feedback, usability evaluation, and iterative design enhancements.
- Support accessibility and inclusive design practices, including adherence to accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and bilingual (English/French) user experiences.
Our successful candidate
- 5-8 years of experience in UI/UX design, product design, or related roles, including progressive leadership responsibilities is required.
- Post secondary degree in technology, engineering, design, or equivalent is required.
- Proven experience designing complex, data-intensive platforms or enterprise applications.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design work, from research through implementation.
- Expertise in human-centered design, usability principles, and interaction design.
- Experience building and scaling design systems.
- Exceptional collaboration skills, with the ability to move projects forward
- Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma or equivalent).
- Familiarity with front-end technologies and constraints (e.g., React, web application frameworks).
- Experience conducting user research and translating insights into design outcomes.
- Strong understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
- Experience in healthcare, research platforms, or regulated environments is an asset.
Benefits of working with us
- Flexible schedule
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick days
- Extended medical and dental coverage
- A work culture that values excellence, creativity, teamwork, learning, fairness and integrity
- A passionate group of high-performing teammates across Canada
Pay: $95,000.00-$110,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- Mileage reimbursement
- Paid time off
- Work from home
Application question(s):
- Please describe your UI/UX design experience.
- What interests you about this position with TFRI?
- If you have a portfolio, please provide link here.
Work Location: Remote
