Mindlance
Senior UI/Visual Designer
Mindlance, Reston, Virginia, United States, 22090
Position Title: Senior UI / Visual DesignerLocation: Reston, VA / RemoteDuration: Long Term Contract
bout the Opportunity
: Looking for a talented Senior UI/Visual Designer to support the College Readiness Assessment (CRA). You will work closely across dependent product teams, along with our design and engineering leads, to create user-friendly designs, UI components, interactions, and templates that will be used to support the end-to-end student and educator experiences.You will also work closely with fellow design team members, product leads, and engineering partners to conceptualize, ideate, design, and deliver creative solutions that achieve business goals and serve user needs.You will learn our existing global design system and help build off of it. You will also contribute to the dependent product teams for CRA (like our Digital Assessment Platforms), and working across channels to help reach and support our audience in a consistent way.
Must Have
Clean, crisp designDesigning quality transactional user interfaces for logical journeysDesign SystemsFigma/Principle/AdobeInfographics of Data Sets
Responsibilities:
Designing engaging experiences through compelling UI/visual design, leveraging our design standards, patterns and UI elementsdvocate for design process, methods, core system, and patterns in order to scale, educate, and evangelize consistency and best practicesBuild out assets of core components of the CRA design system so that the CRA team can leverage those assets in design software like FigmWorking with the development team, clearly document the standards of the design system in a user-friendly wayUse an iterative process, working closely with UX design and engineering counterparts to design, prototype, and validate design ideasContribute to the overall visual and UI strategy for the CRA product design, partnering closely with the discipline teams to define a design system to facilitate a unified experience across all of our productsResponsive to direction and comfortable working with multiple people from different disciplines to achieve an impactful experienceBe a significant contributor to the fostering of our design process and quality standards based on objective, data-driven evidenceDocument and present system updates to stakeholders and usersWork collaboratively with our Design System team to ensure brand and pattern alignmentFoster a collaborative and learning environmentNurture a culture of user empathy and deep curiosity that enables us to build simple, intuitive products for our customers.
Required Skills:
bility to generate and successfully apply product-specific visual ideas grounded in strong UXdvanced understanding of design systems, hierarchy, typography, visual design, data visualization, responsiveness, branding, illustration, iconography and interaction designStrong interpersonal skills with the ability to present ideas effectively-both verbally and visuallybility to work autonomously, manage multiple tasks with accuracy and attention to schedules, and communicate progressUnderstanding of user experience fundamentals, and their impact on UI and interaction designExperience working within a distributed design team - collaborating with designers on different product teams to create and ideateConstantly think about usability, accessibility, responsiveness and other properties through design executionMust be comfortable designing/prototyping in Figma (med-high fidelity)Have experience in design annotation and specsDesigned large-scale, complex enterprise applications in an iterative environment5-7 years design experienceFigma/Principle/Adobe
Preffered Skills:
Comfortable leading design on projects, both as an individual contributor and in collaboration with other designersble to translate art direction and feedback into better design solutionsSelf-managing but also used to working within a teamSomeone with experience working in agile, iterative design and delivery environmentsEffective, but easy-going - someone that is fun to work with and really thrives in a collaborative environmentperson with a good sense of humor who isn't afraid to try and fail (or to try and succeed)ble to provide relevant design case studies and a portfolio of your work
bout the Opportunity
: Looking for a talented Senior UI/Visual Designer to support the College Readiness Assessment (CRA). You will work closely across dependent product teams, along with our design and engineering leads, to create user-friendly designs, UI components, interactions, and templates that will be used to support the end-to-end student and educator experiences.You will also work closely with fellow design team members, product leads, and engineering partners to conceptualize, ideate, design, and deliver creative solutions that achieve business goals and serve user needs.You will learn our existing global design system and help build off of it. You will also contribute to the dependent product teams for CRA (like our Digital Assessment Platforms), and working across channels to help reach and support our audience in a consistent way.
Must Have
Clean, crisp designDesigning quality transactional user interfaces for logical journeysDesign SystemsFigma/Principle/AdobeInfographics of Data Sets
Responsibilities:
Designing engaging experiences through compelling UI/visual design, leveraging our design standards, patterns and UI elementsdvocate for design process, methods, core system, and patterns in order to scale, educate, and evangelize consistency and best practicesBuild out assets of core components of the CRA design system so that the CRA team can leverage those assets in design software like FigmWorking with the development team, clearly document the standards of the design system in a user-friendly wayUse an iterative process, working closely with UX design and engineering counterparts to design, prototype, and validate design ideasContribute to the overall visual and UI strategy for the CRA product design, partnering closely with the discipline teams to define a design system to facilitate a unified experience across all of our productsResponsive to direction and comfortable working with multiple people from different disciplines to achieve an impactful experienceBe a significant contributor to the fostering of our design process and quality standards based on objective, data-driven evidenceDocument and present system updates to stakeholders and usersWork collaboratively with our Design System team to ensure brand and pattern alignmentFoster a collaborative and learning environmentNurture a culture of user empathy and deep curiosity that enables us to build simple, intuitive products for our customers.
Required Skills:
bility to generate and successfully apply product-specific visual ideas grounded in strong UXdvanced understanding of design systems, hierarchy, typography, visual design, data visualization, responsiveness, branding, illustration, iconography and interaction designStrong interpersonal skills with the ability to present ideas effectively-both verbally and visuallybility to work autonomously, manage multiple tasks with accuracy and attention to schedules, and communicate progressUnderstanding of user experience fundamentals, and their impact on UI and interaction designExperience working within a distributed design team - collaborating with designers on different product teams to create and ideateConstantly think about usability, accessibility, responsiveness and other properties through design executionMust be comfortable designing/prototyping in Figma (med-high fidelity)Have experience in design annotation and specsDesigned large-scale, complex enterprise applications in an iterative environment5-7 years design experienceFigma/Principle/Adobe
Preffered Skills:
Comfortable leading design on projects, both as an individual contributor and in collaboration with other designersble to translate art direction and feedback into better design solutionsSelf-managing but also used to working within a teamSomeone with experience working in agile, iterative design and delivery environmentsEffective, but easy-going - someone that is fun to work with and really thrives in a collaborative environmentperson with a good sense of humor who isn't afraid to try and fail (or to try and succeed)ble to provide relevant design case studies and a portfolio of your work