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WEB DESIGNER, PRODUCT TEAM
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EdX is looking for a Web Designer to join our Product Team and shape the experience of edX's online learning tools. With thousands and thousands of students and hundreds of professors using our software every day, our online learning tools have to sing. Our ideal candidates are passionate and picky about what makes a good user experience; sweat the mechanical, visual, and transactional details when designing; know how to bring an idea or project from a sketch on paper to being alive in a browser; can instinctually bring organization to a design meeting, deliverable, or project; and thrive on collaboration with colleagues and constant iteration/refinement.
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As an edX Designer, you:
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- - Have an innate sense of – and strong opinion about – good usability when it comes to web applications, and an ability to clearly articulate both.
- - Understand established interactive technologies and possess an undying thirst to learn about new ones.
- - Define and work within visual themes based on your excellent understanding of grids, typography, color, and design principles.
- - Marry design aesthetics to user experiences while keeping in mind accessibility, usability, and web standards.
- - Can use HTML5, CSS3, and DOM-manipulating JavaScript to represent your designs in the browser.
- - Conceptualize and articulate complex ideas to drive decisions, facilitate understanding, and reach consensus.
- - Document your thinking using appropriately chosen, informed deliverables such as sketches, wireframes, prototypes, site maps/flows, personas, style tiles, and design comps.
- - Have a perfectionist mindset, but won’t lose momentum in projects because of it.
- - Expertly present user experience and design recommendations to team members.
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Requirements:
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- - Have at least 2 years of professional, post-collegiate experience.
- - Have a BA, BS, BFA, or equivalent work experience in areas such as human-computer interaction, information science, graphic or industrial design, computer science, fine arts, social sciences such as psychology, or another related field. But we're all about education, so let us know how you gained what you need to succeed in this role: projects after completing 6.00x or CS50x, Xbox cheevos, on-line guilds led, large scale innovations championed.
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About the Product Design Team:
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We are a small team with a startup, lean culture, committed to building tools that help our users learn and teach online. Working alongside developers, course staff, product owners, and project stakeholders, our Designers shepherd the experience of an idea or tool through research and strategy phases and lead the Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Visual Design, and Front End Development efforts in bringing that experience to life. We enjoy holding Design Studio exercises, finding the right design tool to do the job efficiently, and our CSS preprocessors.
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If you wish to apply, please send your resume (PDF, text, or Word Doc), a thoughtful email that includes specifics about how your previous experience matches the Designer role at edX, and online samples of your work to jobs@edx.org. Candidates who do not provide these will not be considered. EdX is open to considering candidates outside of the Boston/Cambridge, MA area who are willing to relocate.
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