Ampcus
Senior UI / Visual Designer
Ampcus, Reston, Virginia, United States, 22090
Job Description: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.
Profile:
UI/Visual Designer with 5-7 years of experience with a solid portfolio of outstanding product work; Ideal for a designer that has great experience in working with design systems, is highly organized, able to communicate clearly with their team, and is self-sufficient. This designer is detailed-oriented, able to take designs from concept to production. A candidate with experience with branding, illustration, data visualization, iconography and interaction design would be ideal.
ResponsibilitiesDesigning engaging experiences through compelling UI/visual design, leveraging our design standards, patterns and UI elementsAdvocate 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 FigmaWorking 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
QualificationsAbility to generate and successfully apply product-specific visual ideas grounded in strong UXAdvanced 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 visuallyAbility 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
Your ImpactComfortable leading design on projects, both as an individual contributor and in collaboration with other designersAble 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 environmentA person with a good sense of humor who isn't afraid to try and fail (or to try and succeed)Able to provide relevant design case studies and a portfolio of your work
Profile:
UI/Visual Designer with 5-7 years of experience with a solid portfolio of outstanding product work; Ideal for a designer that has great experience in working with design systems, is highly organized, able to communicate clearly with their team, and is self-sufficient. This designer is detailed-oriented, able to take designs from concept to production. A candidate with experience with branding, illustration, data visualization, iconography and interaction design would be ideal.
ResponsibilitiesDesigning engaging experiences through compelling UI/visual design, leveraging our design standards, patterns and UI elementsAdvocate 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 FigmaWorking 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
QualificationsAbility to generate and successfully apply product-specific visual ideas grounded in strong UXAdvanced 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 visuallyAbility 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
Your ImpactComfortable leading design on projects, both as an individual contributor and in collaboration with other designersAble 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 environmentA person with a good sense of humor who isn't afraid to try and fail (or to try and succeed)Able to provide relevant design case studies and a portfolio of your work