UX/UI Designer (W2 Contract Only)

CBTS is seeking a UX/UI Designer to support cross-functional product teams by advocating for human-centered methodologies. The role involves solving complex design problems, creating user flows and prototypes, and collaborating with the UX Research team to enhance the overall user experience across the School platform.

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

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
• Bachelor's degree in HCI, Visual Communication, Digital Design, Product Design, Human Centered Design, or related field required. MFA or advanced degree a plus
• 7+ 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
• 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, Axure, Penpot)
• 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