User Experience Designer (Higher Ed) [76115]
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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.
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