Job Description
Job Description
A Senior UX / UI Designer is needed for a remote contract opportunity. Looking for a UX/UI designer with strong experience and more focused on UI, who is passionate about leading and applying a user-centered approach to product development.
• EST/PST hours are preferred.
Must Have for this role:
- Candidate who has hands on experience in providing the visual guidelines and technical solutions
- Should have experience in visual design, and prototyping software (. Figma, Lucid, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite,
- 5+ years of experience work experience in product development, user experience design, product design, creative
- Looking for someone who is proactive and problem solver
- Open to any industry background
Responsibilities:
- Use research insights to design web and mobile solutions for K–12 curriculum experiences through collaboration with business stakeholders, Content and Digital Strategy, Learning Sciences, Research & Analytics, Accessibility Product Management, and Engineering teams.
- A Continuous Discovery framework is the base for this approach, which includes collaborating with research to conduct human-centered design activities and deliver high quality, accessible design deliverables.
- You will develop thoughtful solutions, taking business needs, technological capabilities, and user feedback into account.
- You will focus on information architecture, user flow design, and interaction design in support of delivery of high quality, accessible and optimally usable experiences for our end users.
- You will independently manage your UX work with a given workstream and collaborate on UX activities and deliverables with Technical Product Managers, Project Managers and Engineer partners.
- You will work closely with a design strategist and/or lead designer to align with our holistic strategy and vision.
- You will work with Agile sprint teams championing human-centered design and help shape design practices and processes that work best with Agile Methods.
You’ll be expected to:
- Be a change agent evangelizing and bringing awareness to human-centered methodologies and practices across the company, supporting cross-functional product teams at different stages of understanding
- Solve complex design problems and drive multiple efforts simultaneously
- Approach each project with consideration for the larger platform experience and business model
- Deeply understand how products connect beyond your own product area and be mindful of touchpoints in the overall user journey across the School platform.
- In collaboration with the UX Research team, dive into existing user research, metrics and balance with intuition and sensibility and translate user needs into tangible experiences for our solutions
- Design and build user flows, wireframes, concepts, and interactive prototypes that will be used as the stimuli for research events and will help define development requirements and inform technology decisions
- Confidently present designs to peers, stakeholders and leadership, and articulate rationales behind design decisions
- Build presentations and lead discussions about experience-related aspects of the solution with different stakeholders throughout the organization, focused on feedback and action towards next steps
- Design consistent approaches to patterns founded in research and best practice established from both inside and outside of the organization
- Embrace and evangelize pattern-based system design – UX standards, best practices, styles, patterns and guidelines – as well as contribute to our design system by introducing high-quality, accessible and usable patterns and their appropriate usage
Required Experience and Skills:
- Portfolio that demonstrates your design work in web and mobile solutions. We want to see and understand your process and how you collaborate across functions within the Product Development Lifecycle.
- Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Visual Communication, Digital Design, Product Design, Human Centered Design, or related field required. MFA or advanced degree a plus.
- 5+ years’ work experience in product development, user experience design, product design, creative, or marketing industries.
- Knowledge in software usability principles and current trends and advances in interface design.
- Product development experience in Ed Tech a plus.
- Demonstrated success leading design efforts across multiple products to achieve a central solution.
- Extensive experience creating low and high fidelity sketches and design documentation.
- Strong communication, presentation and analytical skills.
- Advanced knowledge of UX wireframe, visual design, and prototyping software (. Figma, Lucid, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite,
- In-depth understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Deep understanding of responsive design approaches
- High-level understanding of accessibility guidelines and designing for optimal accessibility
- Demonstrated experience working in an Agile environment.
- Understand a target audience’s needs and other motivating factors, and translate them into concepts
Job ID:
1031949
Job Tags
Contract work, Work experience placement,