UI/UX Designer

A Sr. UX/UI Designer creates simple, user-centric design solutions for complex challenges that our prospective students encounter, leading to an improved experience. A Sr, UX/UI Designer works on projects from concept to execution, mentors and provides guidance to team members with projects that are in motion, and collaboratively influences other teams and team members, such as visual designers, writers, front end developers and product owners, to have a broad impact on the student experience, while also maintaining and growing a new design system. A Sr. UX/UI Designer focuses on mobile as a priority and is passionate about expanding features to create experiences that move with the user from one device to another.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

What You'll Do

1. Collaborate with colleagues in Academics, Information Technology, Operations and within Marketing to understand user problems, create wireframes, design high-fidelity mockups and interaction specifications to lead to solutions for complex challenges that our prospective students encounter.

2. Define and maintain detailed design patterns that scale, allowing broad use across University platforms and applications that will positively impact the student experience.

3. Lead and participate in brainstorming sessions and presentations to marketing leaders and other senior leaders across the University to demonstrate product features and flows; use feedback to iterate and improve end-to-end experience.

4. Exercise product discovery methods to continuously gather qualitative and quantitative insights through user testing, studies, surveys, customer interviews and other methods; understand and respond to data obtained through these methodologies to inform design decisions and recommendations.

5. Lead and/or participate in projects, from conception to execution, to meet priorities and requirements in an Agile environment.

6. Provide leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to more junior leveled staff.

7. Perform other duties as assigned or apparent.

EXPERIENCE

PREFERRED:

Deep UX design experience (Discovery, prototyping, testing/validation, etc.). Knows how to translate business objectives & user insights into engaging experiences.

Experience working in a Product Centric organization with an agile framework

Highly collaborative

Understands the technical side of UX (Development feasibility)

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

REQUIRED:

- A strong portfolio showcasing examples of market-leading user experience and visual design work (will not be considered without a portfolio

- A strong portfolio showcasing examples of problem solving and applying user-centered design principles: concept sketches, user stories, interaction flows, prototypes, design specifications for development, and UI mockups for desktop and mobile. Examples of both methodology and production assets are highly encouraged.

- Proficiency in design tools such as UXPin, Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar

- Strong skills in visual design

- Experience working in a collaborative team, leading white-boarding/problem solving workshops

- Ability to work directly with developers for implementation of design

- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

- Experience partnering closely with other teams to work towards positive outcomes and propose well-informed new directions

- Experience in a fast paced, changing environment

- Familiarity working in SAFe Agile framework

- Self-motivated team player

- Natural Leader

REQUIRED EDUCATION

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor's degree in Human-computer Interaction, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Visual Design, Web Design or similar and six (6) years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, product designer or similar role; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience where one (1) year of relevant experience can replace every two (2) year of post-secondary education