Salary
💰 $45 - $50 per hour
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Lead design problem solving to drive compelling interactive user interfaces.
- Develop consistent, polished visual designs reflective of a design system.
- Establish a streamlined design process, including feedback from stakeholders and planning for additional assets.
- Maintain and champion style guides, applying them to new designs.
- Moderate and manage content migration into design templates.
- Prepare and present design work to internal teams and key stakeholders for review.
- Collaborate closely with Design, Product, and Content teams to gather requirements, ensure quality, define scope and direction of projects.
- Collaborate with Digital Production teams to maintain cohesive libraries of digital assets in CMSs.
- Prepare and communicate design solutions to internal teams and key stakeholders.
- Drive and participate in creative brainstorming, concept development, and design execution.
- Participate in and conduct collaborative discussions, including listening closely and providing honest, thoughtful feedback to colleagues.
- Utilize strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal, and listening).
Requirements
- 2+ years experience with digital visual design, digital product development, or equivalent experience with a BA degree in related field or combination of education and experience.
- Demonstrated capability in synthesizing graphic design principles and user-centric design approaches with a specialized skill set in typography and layout design.
- Keen eye for detail, including the ability to perform design QA and discuss feasible alternatives with developers.
- Experience in managing design feedback cycles and production schedules.
- Comfort and confidence in presenting your work at various development stages.
- Experience collaborating in multifunctional teams as a design lead.
- Expertise with Adobe CC and Figma and an openness to learning and using unfamiliar tools and software.
- Experience with Agile processes.
- Experience with Content Management Systems (CMSs).
- Experience designing responsive desktop layout experiences.
- Portfolio showing a high level of design skills and recent work.
- Basic knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
- Preferred: Experience with digital product design in education technology or a related field.
- Preferred: Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of literacy education.
- Preferred: Experience designing with Accessibility as a priority.
- Preferred: Demonstrated ability to work iteratively with customers to gather and document user experience requirements.
- Preferred: A formal education in Graphic Design, Web Design, Interaction Design, Communication Design, User Experience or related field.
- Preferred: Experience with interactive motion design or games.
- Preferred: Any lived experience with teaching or tutoring students ages K-12.