Full-Time User Experience Designer

We are looking for logical minds that can understand cause and effect and how to break down difficult problems, which is critical for programmers.

The UI/UX Designer works closely with our team to deliver an outstanding user experience providing an exceptional and intuitive application design. This position will be responsible for collecting, researching, investigating and evaluating user requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Work in a fast-paced, Agile/Scrum engineering environment and deliver incremental product software with high quality.
• Lead initiatives related to Research, User Experience and User Interface, working with Product, Engineering, our customers, and partners to determine product strategy and design
• Focus on the user’s needs and translate those needs into design recommendations
• Plan and conduct user research and competitor analysis
• Create user stories, personas, and storyboards
• Determine information architecture, workflows, and create sitemaps
• Work in an agile Scrum team, helping shape and define features, user personas, user journey maps, create information architecture and other artifacts that help articulate user needs and information flows
• Create mock-ups and other design assets to quickly communicate context, situations, and challenges that will shape and influence our designs and solutions
• Help shape our UI framework and style guides, taking into consideration design feasibility for web technologies, HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Have the ability to understand complex systems and provide the optimal solution for the end-user
• Seek to create the best possible product or service for users by finding the sweet spot between their needs, business constraints, and technical capabilities
• Plan and execute methodologically sound usability testing, data analysis, results, documentation, and presentations
• Contribute to testing and implementation approach for presentation layer/front end-user interface
• Optimize existing user interface designs
• Test for intuitivity, time on task, and ease of use
• Communicate with clients to understand their business goals and objectives
• Develop technical and business requirements and always strive to deliver intuitive and user-centered solutions
• Combine creativity with an awareness of the design elements
• Create prototypes for new product ideas
• Test new ideas before implementing

Requirements:

• We are looking for 1-3 years experience as a UI/UX designer or similar role
• Experience/knowledge of JIRA and Scrum methodology a plus
• BS in relevant field preferred.
• Agile experience preferred
• Knowledge of Adobe/Sketch/Figma
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to discuss and explain design options
• Understanding of design feasibility in terms of HTML, CSS and Javascript
• A user-centric mindset
• Attention to detail
• Creative and analytical approach
• Understanding of interaction design principles
• Workshopping & facilitation experience
• Strong user research methods including interviews & A/B testing

It would be great if you have or are pursuing the following:

• NNG UX Certification

We prefer that you have experience with:

• Google Suite
• MS Office Suite
• Figma (or similar)
• JIRA and Confluence

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

We are a team of passionate people striving to help improve classroom learning.

We do this by making and delivering great products.

We also like to have fun along the way.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;

indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead