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UX/UI Designer at Nelnet

We are looking for a well-rounded UX/UI designer to join our team.
The ideal candidate should have an eye for clean design, possess superior UI design skills and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts, and transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces while always keeping real users in mind.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in production and ownership of UI standards including navigation elements, templates, graphics and icons
- Define goals and requirements in collaboration with product owners and stakeholders
- Work effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure that designs are successfully created and implemented to achieve the user goals
- Ensure continuous and collaborative communication between design, architecture and development teams to ensure crisp integration of front-end design to back-end functionality
- Create and evaluate interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience
- Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups, and detailed UI and visual design specifications for web and mobile
- Present design work to the product team, engineering team, and business stakeholders for review and feedback
Qualifications
EDUCATION:
Bachelor’s degree in User Experience, Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction or related field preferred, or equivalent experience.EXPERIENCE:
- Experience designing business enterprise web applications or new software products a plus
- Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum development environment and working within sprint teams
- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, React, Bootstrap, and/or other common UI frameworks, so you have an understanding of what is realistic and can collaborate with developers
- 3+ years of experience as a UX/Interaction designer, or related experience
COMPETENCIES – SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES:
- Strong portfolio featuring design work that showcases visual and interaction design
- Experience with Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and XD
- Sound design fundamentals: color theory, visual hierarchy, typography and iconography
- Comfortable designing responsive experiences from mobile, tablet and desktop
- Expert knowledge of interface and interaction design
- Experience and knowledge of UX best practices
- Act as a continuous learner who actively seeks out and gives feedback to improve the experience
- Flexibility, curiosity and ability to embrace complex design problems
- Ability to present work with confidence to a variety of audiences and make design decisions based on research
- Proven experience developing UI for commercial web based software application or a website
- Prototyping, wireframes, storyboards, and mock-ups
- Ability to liaise with key stakeholders and users
- Understanding of accessibility standards and how to implement them
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