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Sr. User Experience Designer
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
Centennial, CO, United States
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Description
At Company, we have a once in a generation opportunity to transform teaching & learning to prepare people for a changing economy. The educational ecosystem is changing at a ferocious pace. Our company is changing rapidly. We no longer have the luxury of waiting to see how the market will change; we need to operate differently. Learners today are preparing to enter a world of work in which the skills required for employment are rapidly changing. Lifelong learning & ongoing re-skilling will become a reality for most.
In addition - Technology has changed our expectations of how we live, work, communicate. Learners expect education to be engaging and inspiring. They expect digital learning to be as responsive, fast and effective as the other apps in their pocket - Facebook, iTunes. They expect to have access to learning anytime, anyplace, any device and get help when they need it - Consumer Grade
One of biggest investments is in a new digital platform - the Global Learning Platform - which will fundamentally change the way we design, develop and deliver learning experiences, enabling new business models. Company’s Global Learning Platform will provide engaging, responsive, and personalized learning experiences to students everywhere.
Company has an opportunity available within the Global Learning Platform program as a Senior UX Writer.
Summary
Company is seeking a Senior Visual Designer to join our growing global UX team. We are charged with designing next generation digital learning experiences for students and teachers. In this role, you will use your strong visual design skills to collaboratively create the look and feel for Company’s global digital product line.
We’re looking for someone who wants to use design to change the face of education; someone who can innovate and translate high-level visions into compelling digital experiences. If you have a love of learning, teaching, and digital design, then this is a dream opportunity to join a company with a seriously innovative vision for the future of education. If you are a creative thinker and team player with experience delivering world-class look and feel for both browser based and mobile user experiences, we want you.
High Level Responsibilities
• Define the visual experience of our digital products and online applications by designing high fidelity interactive prototypes that engage and delight the end user
• Collaborate with user researchers to validate and test your designs
• Work with interaction designers, prototypers, product managers and engineers to deliver compelling designs to market that satisfy user goals and enhance learning and teaching
• Successfully present your designs to a cross-functional product team to elicit constructive feedback and actively participate in others’ design reviews
• Specifying and explaining user experiences to software development teams, to inform and oversee the implementation of your proposals
• Rationalise and articulate feedback arising from user testing, to explain and contextualise the implied design decisions for product owners, stakeholders and peers
• Contribute to the UX design standards and framework
Competencies
• Understands the Business of Company - Can translate specific market opportunity or customer needs and expectations into product design projects. Has a good understanding of financial opportunities associated with design projects of varying scale, and ensures that UX design teams work within parameters of budget and cost relative to market potential.
• Efficacy - Ensures, with minimal guidance, that products design allows for embedding of efficacy requirements. Creates, either directly or through teams, learner experiences which are enhanced by efficacy capability. Leverages efficacy and user data from other Company products to strengthen product experience and capability for learners and educators.
• Collaboration - Member of cross-functional product design and development teams. Can be considered a subject matter expert to the team on matters of effective user experience. Leverages inputs and data from other stakeholders to create an engaging and product appropriate user experience, in accordance with market need and does so with minimal guidance. Responsible to Product Category leaders in designing complex products according to spec, ensuring the appropriate consistency in the Company user experience across products.
• Learner-Obsessed - Contributes to the design of specific Company products with learner needs in mind. Leverages data from market research, Segment leaders and other stakeholders to understand learner desires; embeds these inputs into product user experience design directly with minimal guidance.
• Digital Change Maker - Incorporates cutting-edge digital capability into Company product offerings. Provides support and guidance in user design conception and execution of specific products, to maximize the digital user experience and create appropriate consistency across Company products with minimal guidance. Serves as a digital UX subject matter expert to product development and build teams, to ensure the intended digital experience is achieved through the Company products before release to the market.
Expected Results
The Senior Visual Designer will deliver some or all of the following, as required by the project:
• Overall visual direction across multiple products and applications
• Design and branding workshops
• UI elements that support the brand identity
• High fidelity prototypes
• Design presentations
• Design patterns to establish commonality across our digital products
• Visual design recommendations based on usability standards and current industry best practices
• Design direction to junior designers
Qualifications
Requirements
• 7+ years graphic design experience in digital media
• BS/BA degree in graphic design, user interface design or equivalent
• Comprehensive knowledge of common design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch and InVision
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, organizational, communication, and time management skills
• Exceptional typography skills, attention to details and visual form
• Positive and imaginative approach to problem solving
• Multi-tasking across multiple projects in an Agile software development process
• Experience applying user-centered research, accessibility, and globalization concepts to the design process
• Demonstrated ability to work in a large, complex, and distributed organization
• A portfolio of design examples that demonstrates versatility, creativity, and innovation
Additional Valuable Qualifications
• Experience with Material design for desktop or mobile
• Experience with animation
• Experience in the educational field
• Experience using JIRA
• Experience with Web accessibility and Section 508