User Experience Designer

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Teach For America
New York, NY, USA
Full-time

We are looking for a talented user experience professional to design, sustain and improve great applications that help fuel the movement to eliminate educational inequity. As a User Experience Designer on Teach For America’s UX team, you will work collaboratively across teams to understand users, define problems and seek to deliver actionable insights.  You will also be responsible for designing, prototyping and articulating UX to business analysts, product managers, partners and implementation teams. This position reports to the User Experience Lead.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Guide partner teams along the User Experience process
  • Clearly articulate, conceptualize and realize high quality, cross-platform solutions (desktop, tablet and mobile) at different stages in multiple product life cycles
  • Imagine, sketch, wireframe, prototype, and design flows, as well as other design artifacts as necessary to communicate UX concepts and solutions
  • Iteratively design, prototype, and test intuitive interfaces from complex requirements
  • Design and implement research plans for new and existing products, working collaboratively with both business stakeholders and product users
  • Perform user interviews, usability tests, and analysis of user behavior across Teach For America's product spectrum
  • Collaborate and effectively communicate findings across diverse teams
  • Educate and empower partner teams to adopt a user-first mindset by acting as a UX Ambassador
Educational Background: 
Bachelor's degree required
Skills/Experience: 
  • 2 years of experience designing products, apps or websites
  • Experience with Sketch and Zeplin (alternatively, experience with Axure RP, Balsamiq, Omnigraffle, Adobe XD or other similar wireframe and design tools, with a desire to learn Sketch and Zeplin)
  • Familiarity with methodologies such as - but not limited to - usability testing, prototyping (multi-fi), contextual research, conducting interviews, task analysis, card sorting, survey design, personas, journey maps, Information Architecture documentation, wireframing (muti-fi), as well as visual design best practices 
  • Familiarity with Agile software development methods, practices, and related tools

Work Demands

  • This position is located on site in our national office in New York, NY
  • Occasional travel may be required (1-4 times per year)

Skills

  • Demonstrates Teach For America’s core values  
  • Has experience working collaboratively with project teams, openness to feedback, a positive attitude, and the ability to be flexible in the face of changing priorities and requirements
  • Keen sense of what makes a good user experience and a passion for working to create it
  • Strong sense of design
  • Strong time management, organization, and interpersonal skills
  • A passion for working within a small committed team of UX designers who cover all parts of the UX process from research through implementation

Education

  • Degree in human-computer interaction, design, cognitive science, psychology, architecture, or other related field is a plus
How to Apply: 

https://teachforamerica.secure.force.com/ts2__JobDetails?jobId=a0x0V0000...

Job Function: 
Technology / Data Management

Organization Info

Teach For America

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Website: 
teachforamerica.org
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1993
About Us
Areas of Focus: 
Education
Mission: 

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates, professionals, or graduate students who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Teach For America's mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence. In the 2016-2017 school year, 6,900 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members are teaching in 53 regions across the United States. Since 1990, Teach For America corps members have reached more than 10 million students. Teach For America's more than 40,000 alumni are providing critical leadership -- as teachers, school and district leaders; elected officials and policy advisers; and founders and leaders of education and social reform initiatives -- to ensure all children have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Aug 7 2018
Active Until: 
Sep 8 2018
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit