UX/UI Designer

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UX/UI Designer developing innovative user experience designs to improve satisfaction with Skillable's products. Collaborating with engineering teams to create workflows and designs that meet stakeholder needs.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop modern and innovative user experience designs that enable customers to maximize the value of Skillable products
  • Serve as a partner to product and engineering teams, ensuring strong communication and collaboration to create workflows and UX/UI designs that address the needs of all stakeholders
  • Translate product briefs and requirements into detailed user flows, wireframes, and screens
  • Document current and desired workflows to support alignment across Product Management, Technical Product Management, and Engineering
  • Support usability and functionality improvements across legacy and new product areas
  • Create clear, well-organized design deliverables to support efficient handoff and implementation
  • Collaborate in a remote work setting, with cross-functional partners in an environment with evolving priorities
  • Balance user needs with technical and business constraints to deliver feasible design solutions
  • Create designs and intuitive, functional, user interfaces while placing heavy value on patterns and reusable components
  • Partner with Developers and Product Managers on design system management within Figma
  • Proactively consider accessibility standards in every UX design
  • Work with product marketing to support in-product messaging assets
  • Execute work with minimal supervision, maintaining a focus on quality and timeliness
  • Partner with product & engineering stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes
  • Actively participate in trainings/knowledge sharing to expand role scope and responsibilities
  • Propose process improvements to enhance the overall UX/UI design of Skillable products
  • Support and promote the company values through positive interactions with both internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis
  • Other strategic business initiatives or special cross-functional project involvement as required

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, User Experience, Computer Science, Interactive Design or relevant professional experience
  • 5+ years designing and building interactive prototypes and mockups, translating user needs and business requirements into intuitive, visually polished user interfaces
  • Experience and understanding of Learning Management Systems (LMS), content creation, and/or content delivery systems highly desired
  • Experience designing complex or legacy systems, with a focus on incremental improvements
  • Experience working with Figma Design, leveraging an existing design system and style guide
  • Experience working with MUI (Google’s Material UI design system) or similar component libraries in close collaboration with engineering teams
  • Strong documentation and organizational skills, including the ability to produce clear annotations and structured files for engineering teams
  • Adaptability and comfort working within constraints (time, feasibility, legacy frameworks, and limited design infrastructure)
  • Ability and willingness to participate in multiple technical projects concurrently
  • Experience designing for developer tools, enterprise platforms, or other technical domains is a plus
  • Experience working cross-functionally and promoting collaborative partnerships to drive results
  • Proven ability to communicate effectively to various audiences/levels, both internal and external stakeholders, through various mediums
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage workload and meet project deadlines
  • A high level of confidence, integrity, and professional courtesy
  • Strong Microsoft suite experience, including teams or similar web conferencing and internal communication software experience preferred
  • Naturally inquisitive with a desire to learn, solve problems and dig into detailed analysis
  • Experience working in a fully remote team is preferred, but not required
  • Thorough understanding (or willingness to learn expeditiously) of business operations and processes
  • Proactively addresses challenges, seeking opportunities for continuous improvement
  • Adept at troubleshooting in fast-paced environments and implementing corrective actions swiftly

Benefits:

  • Fully remote with a monthly stipend to pay for office services and supplies
  • Medical (2 plan options), dental (2 plan options), vision, health savings account with generous employer contributions
  • Healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, EAP
  • Group paid life insurance, group paid STD and LTD and voluntary life/AD&D insurance
  • Accident and critical illness options
  • 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, healthy lifestyle reimbursements
  • Open PTO, Paid holidays, bereavement leave, parental leave, caregiver leave and paid FMLA leave
  • Friends and Family Friday to end our standard workweek at 2pm local time
  • Full company closure during the 4th of July holiday week
  • Access to pet insurance
  • Access for employees and dependents to Skillable learning opportunities through our product and more!