This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Information Architect / UX Lead based in Canada.
This is a senior, hands-on opportunity to shape the experience architecture of a large-scale digital modernization initiative spanning a complex, multi-site and multi-brand public web ecosystem. You will lead information architecture and UX strategy across content-rich websites serving diverse audiences. The role combines strategic thinking, hands-on experience design, user research, and stakeholder facilitation. You’ll simplify navigation, strengthen content structures, improve findability, and create more consistent digital experiences. Working closely with content, design, technical architecture, and CMS teams, you’ll ensure experience strategies are both user-centered and technically achievable. This is a remote contract opportunity in Canada, with potential travel within the country.
Accountabilities:
- Lead the information architecture strategy across a complex multi-site and multi-brand public web ecosystem.
- Assess and redesign navigation structures, taxonomies, content hierarchies, metadata, and site structures to improve usability and findability.
- Map key user journeys, identify friction points, and recommend opportunities to create simpler and more intuitive experiences.
- Facilitate stakeholder and user discovery workshops to gather insights, align priorities, and translate diverse perspectives into actionable recommendations.
- Partner with content strategists to align information architecture, taxonomy, metadata, content models, and content structures.
- Collaborate closely with UX/UI designers on responsive templates, reusable components, and shared design-system experiences.
- Translate research findings, business requirements, and user needs into clear experience principles, IA recommendations, and design direction.
- Champion accessibility and inclusive design throughout the experience architecture, with attention to WCAG 2.2 AA standards.
- Work with technical architects and CMS specialists to ensure proposed information architecture and experience models can be effectively implemented.
- Contribute to major website redesigns, CMS re-platforming initiatives, and broader digital modernization programs.
- Communicate complex IA and UX concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders and facilitate alignment across teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in UX, information architecture, or a closely related discipline.
- Proven experience personally leading information architecture for large, content-rich websites with hundreds or thousands of pages.
- Demonstrated experience working across multi-site and/or multi-brand digital ecosystems.
- Experience leading or contributing significantly to large-scale website redesigns and CMS re-platforming or digital modernization initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of taxonomy design, navigation, content hierarchy, metadata, content modeling, and user journey mapping.
- Experience conducting user research, discovery activities, and stakeholder facilitation workshops.
- Strong understanding of accessibility and inclusive design, including WCAG 2.2 AA.
- Experience collaborating with UX/UI designers on design systems, reusable components, and responsive web experiences.
- Ability to bridge user needs, business requirements, content strategy, and technical implementation.
- Strong communication, facilitation, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience within government, public sector, higher education, financial services, or similarly complex organizations is highly valuable.
- Experience modernizing a large government or public-sector web ecosystem involving multiple websites or brands is particularly valuable.
- Candidates should be prepared to provide 2–3 relevant projects, including their role, approximate scale or number of sites/pages, and CMS or platform involved.
Benefits
- CAD $75–$95 per hour contract rate.
- Fully remote position available to candidates across Canada.
- Potential travel opportunities within Canada.
- Opportunity to lead UX and information architecture strategy for a major digital modernization initiative.
- High level of ownership and influence over the structure and usability of large public-facing digital experiences.
- Opportunity to work on complex multi-site and multi-brand environments with diverse audiences.
- Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across UX/UI, content strategy, design systems, CMS, and technical architecture.
- Opportunity to contribute to accessibility, inclusive design, and improved digital experiences at significant scale.
- Exposure to enterprise-level website redesign, CMS modernization, and information architecture challenges.
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