
Associate UX/UI Designer
Skillable
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Arizona • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $90,000 - $110,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Responsible for developing modern and innovative user experience designs that enable customers to maximize the value of Skillable products
- Serve as a partner to product and engineering teams, ensuring strong communication and collaboration
- Translate product briefs and requirements into detailed user flows, wireframes, and screens
- Document current and desired workflows to support alignment across Product Management, Technical Product Management, and Engineering
- Support usability and functionality improvements across legacy and new product areas
- Create clear, well-organized design deliverables to support efficient handoff and implementation
- Collaborate in a remote work setting, with Partner with product & engineering stakeholders to ensure success
- Balance user needs with technical and business constraints to deliver feasible design solutions
- Create designs and intuitive, functional, user interfaces while placing heavy value on patterns and reusable components
- Partner with Developers and Product Managers on design system management within Figma
- Proactively consider accessibility standards in every UX design
- Work with product marketing to support in-product messaging assets
- Execute work with minimal supervision, maintaining a focus on quality and timeliness
- Apply guidance and direction and incorporate feedback from more experienced colleagues
- Follow established best practices to ensure consistency
- Support and promote the company values through positive interactions with both internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis.
- Other strategic business initiatives or special cross-functional project involvement as required.
Requirements
- 1-3 years of relevant professional experience in building interactive prototypes and mockups
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or equivalent relevant professional experience
- Experience designing for complex or legacy systems, with a focus on incremental improvements
- Experience working with Figma Design, leveraging an existing design system and style guide
- Experience working with MUI (Google’s Material UI design system) or similar component libraries in close collaboration with engineering teams
- Strong documentation and organizational skills, including the ability to produce clear annotations and structured files for engineering teams
- Adaptability and comfort working within constraints (time, feasibility, legacy frameworks, and limited design infrastructure)
- Ability and willingness to participate in multiple technical projects concurrently
- Desire and ability to work at a fast pace
- Experience designing for developer tools, enterprise platforms, or other technical domains is a plus
- Experience and understanding of Learning Management Systems (LMS), content creation, and/or content delivery systems highly desired
- Experience working on a team, within a singular department or cross-departmentally, focused on driving toward common goals
- Proven ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, to various audiences/levels including leadership, internally and externally, and through various mediums
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage workload and meet project deadlines
- Microsoft suite experience, including teams or similar web conferencing and internal communication software experience preferred
- Experience working in a fully remote team is preferred but not required
- Basic understanding (or willingness to learn expeditiously) of standard business operations and processes
- Proactively addresses challenges, seeking opportunities for continuous improvement
- Adept at troubleshooting in fast-paced environments and implementing corrective actions swiftly.
Benefits
- Fully remote with a monthly stipend to pay for office services and supplies
- Medical (2 plan options)
- Dental (2 plan options)
- Vision
- Health savings account with generous employer contributions
- Healthcare spending accounts
- Dependent care spending accounts
- EAP
- Group paid life insurance
- Group paid STD and LTD and voluntary life/AD&D insurance
- Accident and critical illness options
- 401(k) with Company match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Healthy lifestyle reimbursements
- Open PTO
- Paid holidays
- Bereavement leave
- Parental leave
- Caregiver leave
- Paid FMLA leave
- Friends and Family Friday to end our standard workweek at 2pm local time
- Full company closure during the 4th of July holiday week
- Access to pet insurance
- Access for employees and dependents to Skillable learning opportunities through our product and more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
user experience designinteractive prototypesmockupswireframesuser flowsaccessibility standardsdesign system managementdocumentationincremental improvementscontent creation
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationadaptabilityorganizational skillsproblem-solvingtime managementteamworkattention to detailproactive approachability to work under constraints
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in graphic design