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Position: Senior UX/UI Designer Location : Remote Mode : long term Rates: $65/hour on W2 About The Opportunity 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. You have impressive communication and presentation abilities, enabling you to cultivate team unity, promote alignment, and skillfully conduct discussions with users.As our Senior UX/UI Designer, you will help bring product vision to life. You will work within technical constraints and meet business requirements and usability goals. You are a strong communicator who will form effective cross-functional relationships. As our Senior UX/UI Designer, you will partner with the business and engineering teams to prioritize UX activities throughout the software development lifecycle and deliver high-quality experiences. You will support all aspects of design and production, focusing specifically on UX/UI and design research. Additionally, you will work closely with our program owners to understand their needs and help the team find solutions that serve user needs and achieve business goals.Design & Implementation (60%)
Identify target users and help build hypotheses around user needs for projectsDevelop and lead research (generative and evaluative) for your team/products, including leading Continuous Discovery interviews with users and leading our end-user working groupsIn addition to research, collect other types of data to inform design decisions/solutions (e.g., surveys, analytics dashboards, accessibility reviews)Lead synthesis sessions with your team, following agile and lean methodologiesCreate artifacts to share out design research synthesis and decisionsAnalyze business and technical requirementsCreate user journeys and flows to capture current and future states of user pathways to influence planning of MVPs and prospective releasesDevelop wireframes, interactive prototypes, comps, specifications, and other design documents to communicate design ideas to project teamsPartner with the Accessibility team to ensure designs are compliantCreate and present concepts/deliverables to your working team and our stakeholdersConduct handoffs to developers through tools like Figma and ZeplinContribute to the UX/UI of our foundational BigFuture design system, standards, patterns, and UI elementsWork collaboratively with our Content, Design and Engineering Team (CoDE) to ensure brand and pattern alignmentStrategy & Communication (30%)
Strong communicator who takes initiative in talking to users, presenting in research sessions, and effectively sharing findings with the team and stakeholdersCollaborate with the team to promote communication and synchronicity in planning across design, product, and engineeringContribute to the overall design and UX strategy for our product designs, including feeding into and refining a design system to facilitate a unified experience across all our productsDocument and present UX/UI and design updates to stakeholders and usersCollaborate and take direction from multiple stakeholders and disciplines to achieve an impactful experienceParticipate and be vocal in agile ceremonies to ensure design needs are metNurture a culture of user empathy and deep curiosity that enables us to build simple, intuitive products for our customersAdvocate for consistent design processes, methods, core systems, and patternsFacilitate whiteboarding sessions, workshops, and brainstormsProject Management (10%)
Self-manage workload and obtain necessary requirements and acceptance criteria needed to complete workCoordinate with UX Lead, product leads, design team, and engineers to ensure timely delivery of design artifactsHelp foster an environment for collaboration by partnering with business and other creative units to align our visual design approach with project goals, and the College Board brandAbout You
As a UX designer, you are independent in your support of a cross-functional teamA portfolio of your work included in your application that shows examples of you experience leading design research initiativesA 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 experience5+ years of professional experience of relevant Design experienceDocumented experience in designing for large, content-rich websites and applications; proven solutions that met users' needs; Experience designing enterprise products is a huge plusExtensive experience in information design and user scenariosBroad knowledge of digital interaction design patterns, Web site architecture, user interfaces, and navigation on various platforms (Web, mobile, tablet)Familiarity with user-centered research, such as usability testing, contextual inquiry, and field interviewsUnderstanding the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social factors that affect design decisionsFamiliarity with front-end coding technologies and data modeling is a big plusStrong communicator with an ability to demonstrate both leadership and understanding with respect to project partners; Self-managing, but also used to working within a teamHighly adaptable to new information, situations, or challenges and can work independentlyLike facing new challenges and thrive on opportunities to think creatively and come up with fresh approaches to tough business and operational problemsPossess a 'Product Design' mindset, who owns the end-to-end design delivery: from strategy to comps
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