UX Designer - Stride, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
About the Job
Job Description
SUMMARY: As a Product Designer, you will be responsible for creating exceptionally designed user experiences for our suite of applications, catering to our customers: students, parents, learning coaches, and teachers. You will work closely with designers, product management, and developers to drive customer-centric solutions.
Working with a fast-paced team of specialists, the Product Designer will be responsible for collaborating with the team and stakeholders to help identify the requirements and objectives needed to meet the business goals.You will be expected to work autonomously to meet deliverables that include designs, prototyping and testing. The product designer should have experience in designing products from start to finish and have a portfolio that demonstrates complex mobile and desktop application design.
Excellent UX/UI design skills a must. The ideal candidate for this role will be adaptable, detailed, a self-starter, have good communication skills, be a team player, and have a good understanding for technology platforms and how to design for specific scenarios.
Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.
MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Certificates and Licenses: None required.
OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
SUMMARY: As a Product Designer, you will be responsible for creating exceptionally designed user experiences for our suite of applications, catering to our customers: students, parents, learning coaches, and teachers. You will work closely with designers, product management, and developers to drive customer-centric solutions.
Working with a fast-paced team of specialists, the Product Designer will be responsible for collaborating with the team and stakeholders to help identify the requirements and objectives needed to meet the business goals.You will be expected to work autonomously to meet deliverables that include designs, prototyping and testing. The product designer should have experience in designing products from start to finish and have a portfolio that demonstrates complex mobile and desktop application design.
Excellent UX/UI design skills a must. The ideal candidate for this role will be adaptable, detailed, a self-starter, have good communication skills, be a team player, and have a good understanding for technology platforms and how to design for specific scenarios.
Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Create elegant and intuitive user experiences by incorporating user insights, business requirements and technical constraints, following design principles and accessibility.
- Quickly and iteratively create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups with detailed visual design specifications for mobile, and web interfaces throughout the design process.
- Create UX solutions for complex problems. Work through ambiguity and adapt your approach to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Be a champion for user-centered design by partnering with researchers to test your solutions in front of users.
- Be willing to build lightweight prototypes, conduct scrappy and quick user testing on your own if required.
- Present design work to UX, Product, and Engineering teams, as well as stakeholders and executive leadership.
- Contribute to user experience design guidelines and design system. Develop best practices and standards for the Stride Design Center of Excellence.
- Work closely with product engineers to suggest improvements for products and processes.
- Help build out design processes, tools, and culture.
- Work within design guidelines to create assets that reinforce a brand's style or voice through its visual touchpoints.
Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.
MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Five (5) years of experience in web application product design
- An online portfolio that communicates a range of successful user-centered designs that demonstrate proven experience with the user-centered design methodology, telling stories, generating detailed wire frames or prototypes, and delivering comprehensive specifications.
Certificates and Licenses: None required.
OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience creating software design solutions and scalable dynamic user interfaces for complex problems using web design principles and technologies.
- Experience facilitating and collaborating with developers and product managers in solutioning and implementation of designs.
- Adept with contemporary design tools including Sketch, Invision, Figma, and the Adobe Creative Suite.
- Experience planning and executing effective user research such as surveys, interviews, and usability studies.
- Experience solving UX challenges in creating scalable, user-friendly design solutions.
- Experience incorporating business requirements and technical constraints into design, as well as influencing business roadmap and decision-making.
- Experience designing for various platforms and device types with knowledge of usability principles and techniques.
- Proficient working in shared creative environment
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, attention to detail, and communication skills
- Solid understanding of user-centered design and design patterns
- Solid foundation in layout and design
- Ability to clear required background check
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in human-computer interactions, product design or related field
- Strong visual design skills
- Experience designing for accessibility (WCAG 2.1).
- Experience in gaming platform design or a similar subject
- Experience designing and shipping products and features from inception to launch in a fast paced environment
Source : Stride, Inc.