UX/UI Designer

We are seeking a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer 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.

As a Learning Science company, our vision is to unlock the full potential of each learner by providing high-quality instructional materials that are intuitive, engaging, efficient and effective – grounded in research.

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 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 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

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 (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 for