Senior UI/Visual Designer

Our client, a non-profit educational organization, is currently seeking a Senior UI/Visual Designer to join their Technology - Brand team. In this role, you will design dynamic, user-centered UI/visual experiences across company products, ensuring consistency and quality throughout. Collaborating with designers, product owners, and engineering teams, you will apply mobile best practices, interaction design, branding, illustration, and data visualization to create impactful experiences. You'll work closely with the Lead Designer and Creative Director to nurture the brand and contribute to the overall design system, ensuring a cohesive and effective user journey for students planning their future.

You Will:

Design & Implementation

• Conceptualize and define UI/Visual Design in your respective product teams, coordinating closely with your Design Lead, through interactivity studies, wireframes, user journeys, and prototypes
• Promote and create a consistent user experience throughout the journey, leveraging existing design systems, patterns, and UI elements
• Contribute to the maintenance and evolution of the design system—documenting best practices and creating usage guidelines
• Coordinate with Design, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure timely delivery of design artifacts
• Partner with UX, Design Research and Content to explore new opportunities to help grow the brand and suite of products
• Align closely with Creative Director and UI/Visual Design discipline to ensure the experience meets best practices and maintains consistency across teams
• Provide design support across divisions like Comms and Marketing to ensure that there is consistency across all channels
• Support design education and present at Design Lunch and Learns
  
  

Strategy & Communication

• Analyze business and technical requirements, partner with UX, Product, Engineering, and relevant stakeholders to develop meaningful user-focused design solutions
• Work closely with research to derive actionable insights, facilitating informed design decisions
• Meet with UI team members to best design and iterate features
• Develop interactive prototypes, presentations slides, and other documents to communicate design strategies to project teams
• Create and share comprehensive documentation to track decisions, strategies, and research efforts
• Form and maintain solid relationships with project team members and stakeholders
• Participate in design meetings, workshops, activities, and other ceremonies
• Knowledge share with other designers on best practices for effectively presenting and leading in meetings
  
  

Project Management

• Self-manage workload and obtain necessary requirements and acceptance criteria needed to complete work
• Coordinate with UI Lead, product leads, design team, and engineers to ensure timely delivery of design artifacts
• Help foster an environment for collaboration by partnering with business and other creative units to align our visual design approach with project goals, and the company's brand
  
  

You Have:

• 5+ years of professional experience of relevant Design experience
• Hands-on experience in UI/visual design or interaction design for agency or in-house teams
• An advanced understanding of UI design principles and best practices, as well as design systems, hierarchy, typography, aesthetics, illustration, photography, and composition
• Experience with designing native mobile and web-based applications and tools, with a background in designing dashboards, systems, and complex UI
• Demonstrable experience designing for large-scale, omni-channel applications
• Sharp design sensibilities, critical thinking, and an eye for detail.
• Fluency in creating visual content for native mobile applications and responsive web platforms
• Experience working in agile, or iterative design and delivery environments
• Familiarity with user-centered research, such as usability testing, contextual inquiry, and field interviews
• Experience in designing for accessibility
• Must be proficient in all industry-standard software and applications, such as Figma, FigJam, Miro, Zeplin, Jira, Confluence, etc.
  
  

Logistics:

• Hours/Week: 40 hours per week
• Onsite/offsite: Fully remote but must be able to work EST hours
• Pay rate 60-65 per hour
  
  

Job # 49482