UX/UI Designer

Member / Volunteer / Associate Full Time / Part Time Supported / Volunteer Remote

Design feature-level user experiences as part of a cross-functional team. Create prototypes, conduct user testing, and articulate design decisions to ensure holistic product usability.

Announcement

We are seeking full-time or part-time and volunteer professional UX/UI Designers to help us design solutions for specific product capabilities. We have product teams that work in various frameworks and platforms.

About SIL Global

SIL Global is a faith-based nonprofit organization committed to serving translation teams worldwide. If you believe, as we do, that all languages are of value, form an integral part of people's identity, and have the potential to serve them in a rapidly changing world, then you can be part of a software team serving translation teams worldwide.

The Role

UX/UI Designers play a core and critical role on product teams. They are involved from the very beginning of product inception and discovery all the way through the delivery of the product. Product designers sit side-by-side with the product manager and software developers to discover, design, prototype, conduct user testing, and roll out products. In a modern product development team, the designer is not only responsible for user interface design but the holistic user experience. This includes the user interface, but goes beyond to include any touch point and interaction an end user has with the product, which can include communications, marketing, customer support, sales, and the business model.

Major Responsibilities

Design feature-level user experiences as a member of a cross-functional software product team
Understand users and their experiences
Synthesize and communicate needs and research
Create prototypes to express design ideas and learn from users
Participate in UX/UI testing
Articulate design decisions
Participate as an integral and enthusiastic part of the team, exhibiting ownership, follow-through, initiative, awareness, and effective communication with peers and management.
Work with the team around a cohesive product roadmap

Minor Responsibilities

Propose refinements to processes and systems for design and user research
Contribute to the development of team culture
Analyze software requirements by consulting with the user community
Participate in regular project status, planning, partnership, and strategic meetings
Be available to travel to meet with the larger development team at least once per year
Be available to travel biennially to the Language Technology Conference
Participate in professional conferences and meetings

Knowledge & Skills

A servant heart attitude
Demonstrated skills in UX/UI design
Demonstrated user interface design skills
Demonstrated passion for solving complex problems.
Good interpersonal skills of communication
Good organizational skills
The ability to work within an agile software development team
The ability to make decisions in a timely manner
The ability to generate multiple solutions to the problem
The ability to quickly pick up technical concepts
The ability to work both with a team and independently, and to multitask effectively

Education

UX/UI Designers should have experience in software engineering and a good understanding of the software development lifecycle. A bachelor's degree preferably in design, information management, psychology, cognition, art, human computer interaction, interactive media, interaction design, human factors, cognition psychology, cognitive science, informatics, design, business, or computer science, or equivalent of 2-5 years of professional experience in software, design, information, or communications that demonstrates an ability to contribute meaningfully to shipped projects, even if a significant portion of the portfolio is school work.

Training & Orientation

Will complete the initial IT Software Department training program and relevant portions of IT Orientation.

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