Tailored Management is seeking a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer who is passionate about leading and applying a user-centered approach to product development. The Senior UX Designer will use research insights to design web and mobile solutions for K–12 curriculum experiences through collaboration with various teams.
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
- This person will work closely with senior designers and product owners
- Hands-on experience in designing and building user flows, wireframes, concepts, and interactive prototypes is required
- Help define development requirements and provide design input that informs technology and implementation decisions
- Ability to apply and grow institutional knowledge of existing systems, tools, and processes to ensure consistency and scalability
- Strong Figma experience is mandatory
- Experience designing for internal-facing platforms or enterprise tools preferred
- Bachelor's degree in HCI, Visual Communication, Digital Design, Product Design, Human Centered Design is preferred