Position Purpose:

As a UX/UI Designer, you will collaborate with other UX/UI designers, product managers, engineers, and key stakeholders to define and create innovative, user-centered products that enhance teacher instruction and enrich student learning. From discovery and ideation to wireframing, prototyping and visual design, you will help create all the required UX deliverables across every stage of product development.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ability to convert content requirements into engaging, interactive educational experiences.
• Work within, manage and maintain a Figma-based, component driven, design system.

• Translate UX research into actionable information architecture and user interface designs.

• Promote a highly collaborative, team focused approach to working with others, problem solving and advancing design through iteration.

• Present work to product owners, management, key stakeholders, and executives for review and feedback.

• Maintain and adhere to user interface and visual design best practices.

• Develop and ensure consistent design identity and common user experience patterns across multiple applications within a single platform.

• Adhere to user interface and visual design best practices, with regards to accessibility and inclusive design.

Job Requirements/Skills and Experience

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in user experience or other related degree.

• A minimum of 3-years of experience working in UX/UI design or similar role.

• Must have an online portfolio featuring projects that present UX/UI design and process.

• Must be a Figma guru

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud and experience in the publishing industry, especially educational or curriculum publishing, is a plus.

• Experience designing solutions for teachers and students is a strong plus.

• Strong visual design and layout skills

• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Experience with Agile development practices and management tools, such as Jira

• Passionate follower of technology advancements, trends and techniques.

Salary Range: $70,000 - $95,000

*The base salary range represents the low and high end of the expected salary range for the position. The base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors such as geographic location, experience, education, and skill level.

ABOUT BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY

Benchmark Education Company (BEC) is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, with valid and reliable digital assessments that inform instruction. BEC is also a provider of exceptional professional development to educators.

BEC is recognized as a responsive publisher that offers equally rigorous and engaging digital, print, and hybrid learning materials grounded in the Science of Reading research. BEC monitors research outcomes carefully to create effective foundational resources that include strong decoding materials with systematic and explicit instruction and high-quality resources focused on language development and comprehension. BEC’s content-rich and authentic texts offer instruction in close reading and analysis, multiple perspectives, and authentic literature while building world knowledge and reflecting the individuality of every student in each diverse classroom.

Family owned and operated for more than 25 years, BEC is committed to partnering with educators to provide the best for all students through resources of exceptional quality, world-class professional learning, and effective and dedicated customer support.

Benchmark Education Publishing (BEC) and its affiliates are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

For further information, visit us at: https://www.benchmarkeducation.com