Senior UX UI Designer

At the University of Phoenix, we are committed to the future of work by providing a fully remote, work-from-home environment. This strategy enables us to attract top talent nationwide. Are you looking for a rewarding and fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the opportunity to make a significant impact while collaborating with a team of fun, innovative individuals? Would you prefer to work with an organization that positively contributes to the world?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

Are you searching for a rewarding, fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the ability to make a big impact while working side-by-side with a team of fun, innovative people? Ideally, would you like this position to be with an organization that makes a positive contribution to the world? If so…we would love to hear from you!

About Us

University of Phoenix is a leading higher education institution founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling. Our mission is to improve the lives of our students, their families and future generations through higher education. Our values (which hopefully you share) are:
Brave. Honest. Focused.

Our University values and embraces all team members and their unique perspectives. We fundamentally believe in fostering an environment which deeply respects, celebrates, and actively encourages a diverse workforce. We are committed to hiring - and learning from - those who share our passion to help others achieve their educational aspirations.

We offer excellent benefits, an effective recognition program, and outstanding learning and development tools, including tuition vouchers for employees and their qualified family members.

About the Position:

A Sr. UX/UI Designer creates simple, user-centric design solutions for complex challenges that our prospective students encounter, leading to an improved experience. A Sr, UX/UI Designer works on projects from concept to execution, mentors and provides guidance to team members with projects that are in motion, and collaboratively influences other teams and team members, such as visual designers, writers, front end developers and product owners, to have a broad impact on the student experience, while also maintaining and growing a new design system.

A Sr. UX/UI Designer focuses on mobile as a priority and is passionate about expanding features to create experiences that move with the user from one device to another.

What You'll Do

1. Collaborate with colleagues in Academics, Information Technology, Operations and within Marketing to understand user problems, create wireframes, design high-fidelity mockups and interaction specifications to lead to solutions for complex challenges that our prospective students encounter.

2. Define and maintain detailed design patterns that scale, allowing broad use across University platforms and applications that will positively impact the student experience.

3. Lead and participate in brainstorming sessions and presentations to marketing leaders and other senior leaders across the University to demonstrate product features and flows; use feedback to iterate and improve end-to-end experience.

4. Exercise product discovery methods to continuously gather qualitative and quantitative insights through user testing, studies, surveys, customer interviews and other methods; understand and respond to data obtained through these methodologies to inform design decisions and recommendations.

5. Lead and/or participate in projects, from conception to execution, to meet priorities and requirements in an Agile environment.

6. Provide leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to more junior leveled staff.

7. Perform other duties as assigned or apparent.

NOTE:

The primary accountabilities above are intended to describe the general content and requirements of this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Incumbents may perform all or most of the primary accountabilities listed above. Specific goals or responsibilities will be documented in the incumbents' performance objectives as outlined by the incumbents' immediate supervisor or manager.

Job Supervisory Responsibilities

None

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND RELATED

WORK EXPERIENCE:

* Bachelor's degree in Human-computer Interaction, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Visual Design, Web Design or similar and six (6) years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, product designer or similar role; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience where one (1) year of relevant experience can replace every two (2) year of post-secondary education

* A strong portfolio showcasing examples of market-leading user experience and visual design work

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

* A strong portfolio showcasing examples of problem solving and applying user-centered design principles: concept sketches, user stories, interaction flows, prototypes, design specifications for development, and UI mockups for desktop and mobile.…