Senior UX/UI Designer (Remote - EST to CST Locations)

Our Customer is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, they were created to expand access to higher education. Today, the membership association is made up of over 6,000 of the world’s leading educational institutions and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. Each year, our Customer helps more than seven million students prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success—including the SAT, the Advanced Placement Program, and BigFuture. The organization also serves the education community through research and advocacy on behalf of students, educators, and schools.

We are seeking a Senior UX/UI Designer on a contract basis to help support our Customer's business needs. This role is 100% remote. Candidates living in EST - CST locations are preferred.

The Senior UX/UI Designer will help build the future of the K12 and College Readiness and Assessment (CRA) ecosystem. The designer in this role will partner with the design lead and work in close collaboration with product owners, ensuring that their visions and strategies are perfectly aligned. In addition to the product owners, the design team maintains a synergistic relationship with the content, technology, and accessibility teams. This collaboration is central to the workflow, enabling the company to create solutions that are not only technologically advanced but also rich in content and user experience.

As the Senior UX/UI Designer, you'll work closely with the design team, product leads, and engineering partners to develop creative solutions that meet business goals and user needs. You'll have the opportunity to learn about the global design system and contribute to its growth. Additionally, you'll play a vital role in maintaining a consistent digital testing and reporting brand across various channels, helping the company reach the audience effectively. You are highly skilled, motivated, and passionate about visual design, UX, and research. You embrace collaboration while maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit, and you respect and value your project partners. Through research and discovery, you stay informed about your end users and leverage data to enhance usability, accessibility, and overall product quality.

Please submit portfolio and LINKS to your work.


Responsibilities:

Support Design, Research, and Implementation (60%)

• Support Design Research (generative and evaluative) initiatives for your team/products
• Analyze business and technical requirements, lead synthesis sessions with your team, following agile and lean methodologies
• Create user journeys and flows to capture current and future states of user pathways, develop wireframes, interactive prototypes, comps, specifications, and other design documents to communicate design ideas to project teams
• Partner with the Accessibility and CoDE teams to ensure designs are compliant and ensure brand and pattern alignment
• Create and present concepts/deliverables to your working team and stakeholders
• Collaborate with developers through tools like Figma and Zeplin

Contribute to Product Design Strategy and Stakeholder Communication (30%)

• Contribute to the overall UX/UI design strategy, including feeding into and refining a design system to facilitate a unified experience across all products
• Document and present design updates to stakeholders and users
• Collaborate and take direction from multiple stakeholders and disciplines to achieve an impactful experience
• Participate and be vocal in agile ceremonies to ensure design needs are met
• Nurture a culture of user empathy and deep curiosity that enables the company to build simple, intuitive products for the customers
• Advocate for consistent design processes, methods, core systems, and patterns

Self-manage projects and timelines efficiently (10%)

• Manage workload and obtain necessary requirements and acceptance criteria needed to complete work
• Coordinate with UX Lead, product leads, design team, and engineers to ensure timely delivery of design artifacts
• Help foster an environment for collaboration by partnering with business and other creative units to align the visual design approach with project goals, and the company brand

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a related field (computer science, interaction design, HCI, industrial design, information science, social sciences, graphic design, etc.) and/or equivalent years of work experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience of relevant Design experience.
• As a UX/UI product designer, you are independent in your support of a cross-functional team and you possess a ‘Product Design’ mindset, owning the end-to-end design delivery: from strategy to comps.
• Advanced understanding of design systems, hierarchy, typography, visual design, responsiveness, accessibility, branding, illustration, data visualization, iconography and interaction design.
• You are detailed oriented and passionate about visual design, UX, and research and have extensive experience in information design and user scenarios, digital interaction design patterns, Web site architecture, user interfaces, and navigation on various platforms (Web, mobile, tablet).
• Experience with user-centered research, such as usability testing, contextual inquiry, and field interviews.
• Understanding the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social factors that affect design decisions.
• Familiarity with front-end coding technologies and data modeling is a big plus.
• Strong communicator with an ability to demonstrate both leadership and understanding with respect to project partners.
• Self-managing, but also used to working within a team.
• Highly adaptable to new information, situations, or challenges and can work independently.

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Please note: In order to create a safe, productive work environment, our client is requiring all contractors who plan to be onsite to be fully vaccinated according to the CDC guidelines. Prior to coming into our offices, contractors will be required to attest that they are fully vaccinated.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against.