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User Experience Designer (Higher Ed) [76115]

  • Full Time, onsite
  • Onward Search
  • Atlanta Metropolitan Area, United States of America
Salary undisclosed

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Onward Search is a specialized staffing and talent solutions company that helps professionals find top jobs with the nation’s leading brands. We’re looking to hire a User Experience (UX) Designer for a well-known education technology company.

This is a 6-month contract opportunity. The role is 100% remote.

This role has a max hourly rate of $53 and the rate cannot exceed this number.

Sr. User Experience Designer Responsibilities:

  • Be a change agent evangelizing and bringing awareness to human-centered methodologies and practices across the company, supporting cross-functional product teams at different stages of understanding
  • Solve complex design problems and drive multiple efforts simultaneously
  • Approach each project with consideration for the larger School platform experience and business model
  • Deeply understand how products connect beyond your own product area and be mindful of touchpoints in the overall user journey across the School platform.
  • In collaboration with the UX Research team, dive into existing user research, metrics and balance with intuition and sensibility and translate user needs into tangible experiences for our solutions
  • Design and build user flows, wireframes, concepts, and interactive prototypes that will be used as the stimuli for research events and will help define development requirements and inform technology decisions
  • Confidently present designs to peers, stakeholders and leadership, and articulate rationales behind design decisions
  • Build presentations and lead discussions about experience-related aspects of the solution with different stakeholders throughout the organization, focused on feedback and action towards next steps
  • Design consistent approaches to patterns founded in research and best practice established from both inside and outside of the organization
  • Embrace and evangelize pattern-based system design – UX standards, best practices, styles, patterns and guidelines – as well as contribute to our design system by introducing high-quality, accessible and usable patterns and their appropriate usage

Sr. User Experience Designer Requirements:

  • 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.
  • 5+ years' work experience in product development, user experience design, product design, creative, or marketing industries.
  • Product development experience in Ed Tech a plus.
  • High-level understanding of accessibility guidelines and designing for optimal accessibility
  • Extensive experience creating low and high fidelity sketches and design documentation.
  • Advanced knowledge of UX wireframe, visual design, and prototyping software (e.g. Axure, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator); familiar with Snagit, Visio.
  • Demonstrated experience working in an Agile environment
  • Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Visual Communication, Digital Design, Product Design, Human Centered Design, or related field required. MFA or advanced degree a plus.

Perks & Benefits:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • 401k Program
  • Commuter Benefit
  • eLearning
  • Education Reimbursement
  • Ongoing Training & Development
  • *To qualify for our benefits package, you must work over 30 hours per week and the length of assignment must be a minimum of 10 weeks.