3 Reasons You'll Love This Job
- You’ll design creative solutions to complex problems.
- You’ll have a voice and a seat at the table.
- You’ll have a huge impact on the product, and have the potential to change the lives of future leaders across the world.
Responsibilities
- High-Fidelity Design Execution: Own the design process from conception through launch. Collaborate with UX writers, engineers, and product managers to bring innovative high-fidelity designs to life. Utilize your deep understanding of user journeys and attention to detail to create visually appealing and functional designs. Ensure designs meet accessibility standards and serve diverse user groups.
- Prototyping and Wireframing: Rapidly produce and iterate on wireframes that cater to specific user needs and scenarios, ensuring alignment with the broader design vision and project goals.
- User Research and Testing: Become a product expert through continuous user and client interaction to understand their needs and pain points. Define and track success metrics for design solutions (e.g., usability scores, conversion rates, engagement). Utilize methods like data analysis, usability testing, journey mapping, card sorting, design surveys, and user interviews to gather actionable insights. Share findings with the team and integrate them into product improvements for end users.
- UX/UI Strategy: Keep abreast of new trends in design and UX, evaluating their applicability to our projects. Use strategic insights gained from research to drive design decisions and enhancements. Contribute to or maintain design systems to ensure consistency across products and platforms.
- Team Collaboration and Leadership: Lead project management efforts within the design team, responding swiftly to changes and ensuring effective communication across teams. Proactively address delays or blockers by coordinating with all stakeholders involved.
- Continuous Learning and Innovation: Constantly seek new knowledge and techniques in the field of design. Share innovative ideas and tools with the team to foster an environment of growth and continuous improvement.
Skills and Experience
- Core Competencies: 3+ years of professional experience in the human-computer interaction design field (UX, UI, etc.)
- Experience working with a development team: Experience working with a software engineering and product management team to build products from concept to launch.
- Adaptability & Learning: Enthusiastic quick learner who enjoys tackling complex problems. Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment with changing expectations and responsibilities.
- Design Excellence: Exceptional wireframing and design abilities; able to explain rationale behind design decisions.
- Data-Driven Design: Demonstrated ability to use metrics and testing to develop hypotheses and evaluate design solutions.
- Strategic Execution: Ability to think strategically and execute methodically. Exceptional project management skills. Able to drive your own projects forward while also collaborating with other designers.
- Technical Proficiency: Proficiency in Figma or eagerness to learn.
- Remote Collaboration: Comfortable with a largely remote team.
- Visionary Mindset: Desire to help create something big.
- Referrals: People that have worked with you will attest to the above.
- Educational Qualification: Minimum BA/BS/BTech/BE degree
Top Skills
What We Do
As higher education’s first Career Access Platform™, PeopleGrove is a smart career network that recommends Mentorship, Networking, Career Exploration, and the Job Connections that together effectively build the social capital learners need to succeed.
Unlike other student success tools and alumni engagement software, PeopleGrove is lifelong career support that’s smart, personal, and helpful even to those without a network, experience, or clear starting point.
Established in 2015, PeopleGrove set out to build the most helpful network ever created because we believe career fulfillment is a right every single person should have. To date, we've helped millions of learners on their career journeys:
- 1+ million connections
- 96% retention rate
- 20+ million users
- 60% of US News Top 100 Universities
- 5/5 average rating from user interactions
- 450+ customers served
PeopleGrove is proudly part of The Riverside Company portfolio of companies. With their partnership, we are a transformational organization that prides itself on building an environment where curiosity is rewarded and the unknown is embraced.
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