A Senior UX / UI Designer is needed for a remote contract opportunity. Looking for a UX/UI designer with strong experience and more focused on UI, who is passionate about leading and applying a user-centered approach to product development.

• EST/PST hours are preferred.

Must Have for this role:

• Candidate who has hands on experience in providing the visual guidelines and technical solutions
• Should have experience in visual design, and prototyping software (e.g. Figma, Lucid, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience work experience in product development, user experience design, product design, creative
• Looking for someone who is proactive and problem solver
• Open to any industry background

Responsibilities:

• Use research insights to design web and mobile solutions for K–12 curriculum experiences through collaboration with business stakeholders, Content and Digital Strategy, Learning Sciences, Research & Analytics, Accessibility Product Management, and Engineering teams.
• A Continuous Discovery framework is the base for this approach, which includes collaborating with research to conduct human-centered design activities and deliver high quality, accessible design deliverables.
• 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 independently manage your UX work with a given workstream and collaborate on UX activities and deliverables with Technical Product Managers, Project Managers and Engineer partners.
• You will work closely with a design strategist and/or lead designer to align with our holistic 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.

You’ll be expected to:

• 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 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

Required Experience and Skills:

• 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.
• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Visual Communication, Digital Design, Product Design, Human Centered Design, or related field required. MFA or advanced degree a plus.
• 5+ years' work experience in product development, user experience design, product design, creative, or marketing industries.
• Knowledge in software usability principles and current trends and advances in interface design.
• Product development experience in Ed Tech a plus.
• Demonstrated success leading design efforts across multiple products to achieve a central solution.
• Extensive experience creating low and high fidelity sketches and design documentation.
• Strong communication, presentation and analytical skills.
• Advanced knowledge of UX wireframe, visual design, and prototyping software (e.g. Figma, Lucid, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.)
• In-depth understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Deep understanding of responsive design approaches
• High-level understanding of accessibility guidelines and designing for optimal accessibility
• Demonstrated experience working in an Agile environment.
• Understand a target audience's needs and other motivating factors, and translate them into concepts

Reference: 1031951

Worried that you don’t meet every single requirement listed in the job ad? Studies have shown that individuals from marginalized groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Hive + Co. is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and representative workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but worried that you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyways. We’d love to get to know you.