Senior UX/UI Designer

Discovery Education is seeking a Senior UX UI Designer with a solid background in cross-platform digital experiences to join our Corporate Education Partnerships/Social Impact team. A keen aesthetic and passion for design, blended with user-centered methodology, is critical for ensuring successful experiences for our wide range of audiences (teachers, students, parents, communities, and employees). The ideal candidate has real world experience producing engaging design solutions for new media projects from concept through launch. They're pros at using the latest technology (Figma) and enjoy working as part of a team in a supportive and engaging environment.

This is a hybrid role in which you will sit at our Corporate Headquarters located in the SouthPark area of Charlotte NC 2-3 days a week, working remotely the remainder of the week.

What You Will Do

Primary: User Experience, Information Architecture, Content Strategy

• Collaborate with cross-functional team to align program objectives, deliverables, and mission/vision elements into a cohesive summary document to inform overarching program strategy (website, video, curriculum, marketing).
• Create user experience workflow design, screen design, screen layout, wireframes and functioning.
• Prototypes based on established component library.
• Present over-arching program brief and proposed digital strategy to meet program goals to internal account leads and external clients.
• Collaborate with the research team to gain insights into end-user needs and goals to optimize user experience.
• Work collaboratively with team members from curriculum, editorial, learning analytics, design, and technology.
• Incorporate feedback from internal team members and clients to ensure work is in-line with overall briefs, client expectations, and end-user goals.
• Maintain current digital experiences and support on-going graphic production needs.

Secondary: Visual Design Support

• Support brand standards, style guides and design element library.
• Support high quality visual designs, taking the designs from concept to execution with a mobile-first perspective.
• Support visual language approach with iconography, typography, color, and system of visual affordances that work cross-platform and device.
• Partner with front-end developers and create HTML and CSS-friendly designs.
• Create layouts in appropriate software (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.) as well as production art to be used in HTML and CSS.
• Present design solutions in context of overall brand solution to internal stakeholders.
• Support the overall creative look and feel of the user interface for web and mobile education services and applications.
• Manage and develop a consistent design language to guide the look and feel of the company's portfolio of products.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in digital design and production for digital platforms. Online work portfolio is required, with an emphasis on elegant, cohesive design systems and showcasing innovative digital concepts and creative design solutions, including the types of work listed above.
• Strong Skills:
  • Collaboration, communication, and presentation skills.
  • Solid foundation in user experience, information architecture and content strategy.
  • In-depth knowledge of the following applications: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Confluence, JIRA, etc.
  • Problem solving and organizational skills.
  • Presentation and consensus building skills.
• Experience with:
  • User-centric design approach with an understanding of UX fundamentals and best practices.
  • Information architecture.
  • Taking vague concepts into substantial outputs.
  • Generating basic motion that sparks joy.
  • Designing for edtech.
  • Current web standards and accessibilities guidelines and practices.
  • HTML5 and CSS (basic proficiency).
• Other:
  • Ideal candidate will either have BFA in Design or related design degree and will be passionate about keeping up to date with trends, best practices, digital advancements, and competitors.
  • Willingness to accept and act quickly on feedback.
  • Grace and focus under tight deadline pressure.
  • Laser-sharp attention to detail.
  • Ability to work independently or as part of a team.
  • Familiarity with and/or personal use of popular social platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest).
• Software Required:
  • Figma
  • Adobe Creative Suite
• Legal right to work in the United States.

***Application Process:

• Provide at least three recently completed samples of implemented work/portfolio. Be prepared to speak about the processes you used to develop the projects and your specific role in each.
• One sample should be something that you personally find interesting or elegant and the other should be something that pushed you to your limits in some way.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO.
• Paid holidays include Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve.
• Generous parental leave.
• Annual education and professional development dollars.
• Major medical, vision, and dental (multiple choices).
• Summer hours and company recharge days.
• Company-paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability.
• Pet insurance.
• Company paid volunteer hours.

Discovery Education is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery Education is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or, genetic information.