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Senior Behavioral Designer - Full-time Contract (3-months, Hybrid - Toronto, ON)

BEworks is a leading behavioral science consultancy helping organizations tackle complex challenges with evidence-based strategies. By blending rigorous science with practical execution, we drive large-scale human behaviour change. Our team collaborates with global brands, public institutions, and innovators to turn insights into real-world impact. As we continue to expand our global impact, we are seeking a passionate Senior Behavioral Designer to join our team.

Overview

Join us as a Senior Behavioral Designer, where you'll bridge design, behavioral science, and experimentation to craft interventions that resonate. As part strategist and part creator, you'll shape ideas on the fly, partner with scientists, and deliver polished visuals that make behavioral insights tangible for clients. This role thrives in our multidisciplinary setting, perfect for designers passionate about influencing how people think and act.

This is a hybrid role based in Toronto with two days per week in office. This will start as a three-month full-time contract with opportunity for extension.

Your Day-to-Day

While every day may look different, your main responsibilities will be to:

  • Lead behavior-change designs across sectors like finance, health, sustainability, and government.

  • Build client-facing concepts, prototypes, and deliverables from behavioural insights on time and with precision.

  • Contribute to ideation sessions, exploring hypotheses and refining directions.

  • Co-lead client meetings, guiding design discussions and explaining your rationale.

  • Partner with scientists, strategists, and clients to test ideas, iterate, and simplify complex research into visuals like client presentations, scientific reports, digital campaigns, marketing content and communication documents.

  • Enhance proposals with compelling design input to win new business.

  • Develop BEworks-branded assets to strengthen our visual identity.

  • Meet all deadlines while upholding craft excellence, organizing workflows, and mentoring junior designers to advance our practice.

What We Are Looking For

What You Bring:

  • 5 to 7+ years in UX, instructional, visual/graphic, marketing, or service design, ideally in agencies, marketing teams, or product environments.

  • A portfolio highlighting conceptual depth, problem-solving, UX flows, and storytelling across formats (decks, digital, interventions).

  • Experience with hypothesis-driven design, pilots, and iteration in dynamic settings.

  • Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote/PowerPoint, plus prototyping tools.

  • Strong collaboration and communication, including client presentations and feedback handling.

  • An evidence-based mindset, curiosity about human behavior, and skill in turning data into intuitive designs.

Nice to Haves:

  • Background in consulting, agencies, or research-focused roles.

  • Knowledge of frameworks like COM-B, EAST, or MINDSPACE.

  • Workshop facilitation skills.

Why BEworks?

  • Work with a world-class team of behavioral scientists and thinkers.

  • Build solutions that are both elegant and empirically validated.

  • Influence meaningful societal and organizational change.

  • Grow your craft at the frontier of behavioral design.

How to Apply

We recognize we are looking for a uniquely qualified individual and as such we encourage all those who meet aspects of our requirements to apply. To apply for this opportunity, please submit your resume and a link to your portfolio to careers@beworks.com with the subject line “Application: Senior Behavioral Designer”. As we are committed to finding the right fit for this position, this posting will remain active until this role has been filled. We thank you in advance for submitting your application, however, only selected qualified candidates will be contacted. 

BEworks is committed to building a diverse workforce representative of the communities we serve. We are proud to be in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), 2005 and the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the recruitment and assessment (if applicable) process as required under BEworks' policies and procedures. Applicants must make their accommodation needs known when first contacted by the recruitment team. 

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