Job Description
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Our client is seeking a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer contractor who is passionate about leading and applying a user-centered approach to product development. The Senior UX Designer will 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.
100% remote. 40 hours per week, no OT or Travel. Onshore candidates only.
Top must haves:
• 5+ years' work experience in product development, user experience design, product design, creative, or marketing industries.
• Figma knowledge and responsive design experience 5+ years
• Knowledge of but more experience with Accessibility
• Work independently but also a part of a team
• Excellent Communication skills
• Excellent Collaboration
• Ability to problem solve is critical
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
• You are a design professional living at the crossroads of empathy and technology.
• 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 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 the holistic School 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 School 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.
• 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 (e.g. Axure, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator); familiar with Snagit, Visio.
• 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
To Apply for this Job Click Here
Our client is seeking a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer contractor who is passionate about leading and applying a user-centered approach to product development. The Senior UX Designer will 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.
100% remote. 40 hours per week, no OT or Travel. Onshore candidates only.
Top must haves:
• 5+ years' work experience in product development, user experience design, product design, creative, or marketing industries.
• Figma knowledge and responsive design experience 5+ years
• Knowledge of but more experience with Accessibility
• Work independently but also a part of a team
• Excellent Communication skills
• Excellent Collaboration
• Ability to problem solve is critical
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
• You are a design professional living at the crossroads of empathy and technology.
• 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 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 the holistic School 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 School 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.
• 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 (e.g. Axure, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator); familiar with Snagit, Visio.
• 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
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💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Senior UX Designer | Remote position is now open for candidates interested in the Work from home Jobs sector. This role in Antelope offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Work from home Jobs is a plus.
