UX Designer – Native Mobile Applications (Insurance)

Mobile UX Designer - Remote

Digital design opportunity within the insurance industry, driving engaging mobile and cross-channel experiences that support retirement solutions across Canada. This contract role offers meaningful impact, collaborative product innovation, exposure to complex digital ecosystems, and strong potential for long-term career growth.

What is in it for you:

• Salaried: $50-57 per hour.
• Incorporated Business Rate: $60-69 per hour.
• 9-month contract with the potential for permanent employment.
• Full-time position: 37.50 hours per week.
• Weekday schedule from 9 am to 5 pm.
• Enjoy the flexibility of remote work.

Responsibilities

• Design intuitive and high-performing mobile customer applications, applying native iOS and Android design patterns while ensuring alignment with broader desktop experiences and business objectives.
• Prioritize mobile-first design strategies that integrate seamlessly across digital channels.
• Collaborate upstream with cross-functional partners to support research, discovery, and design exploration initiatives.
• Translate insights into user-centered design solutions that enhance digital retirement experiences.
• Produce design artifacts including user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and interaction designs with strong attention to navigation, gestures, touch targets, and adherence to established design systems.
• Participate in user testing sessions to validate, refine, and iterate on proposed solutions.
• Work closely with service designers, experience strategists, content designers, and product stakeholders in an agile environment.
• Contribute to solving complex design challenges that improve user satisfaction and deliver measurable business value.
• Continuously stay current with evolving mobile technologies, emerging trends, and industry best practices in digital experience design.

What you will need to succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or equivalent training and practical experience.
• 3 years of professional product design experience within cross-functional digital teams.
• Proven expertise in native mobile application design for iOS and Android platforms.
• Strong understanding of user experience principles, usability standards, and mobile interaction patterns.
• Demonstrated experience managing the end-to-end digital product design process from concept development and prototyping through detailed execution.
• Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience designing within and contributing to established design systems.
• Familiarity with agile project management methodologies and collaboration platforms is considered an asset.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate design concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders, and bilingualism in English and French to collaborate effectively at a national level.
• Portfolio demonstrating design process, problem-solving approach, craftsmanship, and measurable outcomes is required.

Why Recruit Action?

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Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract

Contract length: 9 months

Pay: $50.00-$69.00 per hour

Expected hours: 37.50 per week

Benefits

• Work from home

Experience

• Digital product design: 3 years (required)
• Working in Agile/Scrum environments: 1 year (required)
• Native app design for iOS and Android platforms: 1 year (required)
• Design tools: Figma and Adobe Creative Suite: 1 year (required)

Language:

• French (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON M4W 1E5