UI / UX Designer

You are a design professional living at the crossroads of empathy and technology. You will develop thoughtful solutions, taking business needs, technological capabilities, and user feedback into account. You will focus on information architecture, user flow design, and interaction design in support of delivery of high quality, accessible and optimally usable experiences for our end users. You will collaborate on UX activities and deliverables with Technical Product Managers, Program Managers, and Engineer partners. You will work closely with a design strategist and/or lead designer to align with our holistic School strategy and vision. You will work with Agile sprint teams championing human-centered design and help shape design practices and processes that work best with Agile Methods.

location: Telecommute

job type: Contract

salary: $47 - 48 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

You'll be expected to:

- Help bring 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 contribute to 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 and 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

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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