Designer

What will you be doing?

Ahead of you is a highly rewarding and enriching journey. Working closely with other teams, you will:

• Play a key role in evolving the IxDF brand identity and implementing the visual design language across all touch points.

• Support, maintain and grow our platform’s design system and champion it across the business.

• Create and improve user experiences in core areas of our educational platform—from conducting user research, UX wireframes to high-fidelity and highly polished designs.

• Work with user insights and data to craft the best online educational experience in the world.

• Collaboratively work with the development team, marketing team and member support teams to create and implement ideas that solve the needs of our members.

• Shape and refine UIs, copy, microcopy, communication, etc., so that we improve the biggest force of growth, we have: The better we serve our members’ true needs, the more we grow.

• Work the ultimate magic of user experience design: so that our viewers and readers will forget they’re accessing what we offer them through their devices.

• Help us attain and maintain our vision as the world’s premier design education resource via a solution whose look, feel and functionality can’t be faulted… but always have room for improvement under your watchful eye.

Want even more challenges? If you're willing to do the hard work of learning and growing, you’ll find virtually limitless opportunities waiting for you on the road ahead.

About You

• Your responsibilities will range widely, so you must be adept at dividing broad duties into small, executable tasks and not lose sight of your overall mission. “Getting stuff done” is your middle name.

• You have between 5-7 years of hands-on experience in design, including graphic design, UI and UX.

• You have outstanding design and communication skills, with a keen sense of the interface between design and business needs.

• You’re eager to discover the hard-to-find insights that help lead to the best solutions.

• You are results-driven and motivated by achievement and goals.

• You have strong social intelligence and empathy—and the ability to engage well with different types of people.

• You’re a practical idealist. You strive for perfection in everything you do while understanding the delays that can come with waiting for something to be perfect.

• You know how to create great results through incremental quick wins and MVPs and when to go all in to create something perfect.

• A high standard of core Graphic Design skills is a must: Typography, composition and layout, and color theory, with attention to detail across all. Illustration skills are advantageous.

• Candidate should be highly skilled with the following software: Figma (including auto-layout, components and prototyping), Adobe CC, predominately Photoshop and Illustrator.

• Experience with After Effects and or Video Editing would be advantageous, along with user testing experience.

• You are a native or bilingual English speaker.