Senior User Experience Designer

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Civitas Learning is looking for a dedicated Sr. User Experience Designer to be part of our Austin-based creative team that’s bringing together the best of new technology, design thinking, and data science in our mission to help one million more students graduate each year. This is a great opportunity to work with a talented team that’s building applications to deliver insights and action analytics to the frontlines of education.

The Sr. UX Designer position is key to building amazing products and will help set us apart from our competition. In this position, you’ll have a great deal of opportunity and a lot will be expected of you. We’re looking for problem solvers - individuals with passion and desire to build amazing products!

Our ideal candidate is an expert in user interface and graphic design with a passion for innovation and a desire to work with the latest design trends and emerging technologies. You are fun, fearless and fast. You believe that the best way to validate an idea is to build it and get it into users hands as quickly as possible.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Passionate about the web & the current creative/digital landscape
  • Solid understanding of UX design principles
  • Ability to address complex design problems and provide sound design solutions
  • Collaborate with cross-functional technical teams
  • Create wireframes & interactive prototypes to effectively communicate interaction & design concepts
  • Collaborate in the requirements gathering and specification phases of a project
  • Create graphics & layouts for our software applications
  • Keep the rest of the team informed of the latest design techniques/trends/ideas
  • Participate in usability testing with target users
Position Requirements:
  • Degree in Human Factors, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related area
  • 4+ years of web app design experience
  • Strong portfolio that demonstrates past work
  • Experience creating interaction designs for web & mobile applications
  • Solid understanding of web technologies (HTML5 and CSS3)
  • Visual design skills (layout, hierarchy, typography, color theory, patterns) and a fanatical attention to detail.
  • Expertise in design tools including Sketch and Invision
  • Comfortable working on highly technical product teams
  • Comfortable working with rapidly changing requirements
  • Excellent communications skills
  • Strong customer focus
  • Desire to grow and improve as a designer
What you are looking for in your career:
  • An office full of insanely talented, mission-driven people.
  • The chance to use your powers to do something that truly matters.
  • Being involved with a once-in-a-generation company, at the cutting edge of technology.

Civitas Learning offers medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as a 401k plan.  We also have a generous flexible, paid time off policy. 

About Civitas Learning:
Civitas Learning brings together the best of leading-edge technology, design thinking, and data science in our mission to help a million more students a year learn well and finish strong. We are a mission-driven company dedicated to forever changing higher education for the better.

Using a cloud-based, predictive analytics platform and engaging applications, Civitas Learning helps partner institutions bring deep insights to decision makers, and personalized, real-time recommendations directly to the front lines for students, faculty, and advisors to measurably improve student learning, persistence, and graduation. 

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