CBTS provides consulting resources and cloud or on-premises technologies that deliver consistent IT performance, reduce costs, and increase operational efficiency.

CBTS

Role: UX/UI Designer

Location: Remote

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You’ll be expected to:

* Be a change agent evangelizing and bringing awareness to human-centered methodologies and practices across the company, supporting cross-functional product teams at different stages of understanding
* Solve complex design problems and drive multiple efforts simultaneously
* Approach each project with consideration for the larger School platform experience and business model
* Deeply understand how products connect beyond your own product area and be mindful of touchpoints in the overall user journey across the School platform.
* In collaboration with the UX Research team, dive into existing user research, metrics and balance with intuition and sensibility and translate user needs into tangible experiences for our solutions
* Design and build user flows, wireframes, concepts, and interactive prototypes that will be used as the stimuli for research events and will help define development requirements and inform technology decisions
* Confidently present designs to peers, stakeholders and leadership, and articulate rationales behind design decisions
* Build presentations and lead discussions about experience-related aspects of the solution with different stakeholders throughout the organization, focused on feedback and action towards next steps
* Design consistent approaches to patterns founded in research and best practice established from both inside and outside of the organization
* Embrace and evangelize pattern-based system design – UX standards, best practices, styles, patterns and guidelines – as well as contribute to our design system by introducing high-quality, accessible and usable patterns and their appropriate usage

 

Required Experience and Skills

* Portfolio that demonstrates your design work in web and mobile solutions. We want to see and understand your process and how you collaborate across functions within the Product Development Lifecycle.
* Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Visual Communication, Digital Design, Product Design, Human Centered Design, or related field required. MFA or advanced degree a plus.
* 7+ years' work experience in product development, user experience design, product design, creative, or marketing industries.
* Knowledge in software usability principles and current trends and advances in interface design.
* Demonstrated success leading design efforts across multiple products to achieve a central solution.
* Extensive experience creating low and high fidelity sketches and design documentation.
* Strong communication, presentation and analytical skills.
* Advanced knowledge of UX wireframe, visual design, and prototyping software (e.g. Figma, Axure, Penpot)
* Deep understanding of responsive design approaches
* High-level understanding of accessibility guidelines and designing for optimal accessibility
* Demonstrated experience working in an Agile environment.
* Understand a target audience's needs and other motivating factors, and translate them into concepts