ux designer Remote
The Jed Foundation
Full Time
Remote
93000 - 67000 USD ANNUAL Today
Job description
The Jed Foundation (JED) is a nonprofit organization that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults. The Jed Foundation (JED) seeks a technical and creative UX/UI Designer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the end-to-end design process for our web-based products, ensuring they are user-centered and meet the needs of our constituents. The ideal candidate will be comfortable solving design problems using a variety of human-centered methods and practices: from user research and UX strategy through prototyping and high-fidelity design systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with Product leadership and cross-functional teams to understand product goals, gather requirements, and envision user-centered digital solutions.
- Work with JED’s Design & Impact team to plan, conduct, and interpret user research to crystalize users' needs, preferences, and behavior. This may include but isn’t limited to user surveys, interviews, and usability/desirability testing.
- Create wireframes and prototypes to demonstrate solutions and gather feedback across a wide variety of users, partners and internal stakeholders.
- Organize and structure JED’s product content through information architecture that is intuitive and easy to navigate.
- Define how users interact with JED digital products or features and design user flows and interactions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure designs are accurately implemented and aligned with product goals and technical requirements.
- Leverage inclusive design principles to ensure JED products address the needs of diverse users across age, culture, economic situation, education, gender, geographic location, language, race and accessibility.
- Help to develop and support a test-and-learn strategy that enables continuous improvements.
- Leverage data and conduct user testing to identify areas for improvement and iterate on designs based on user feedback.
- Develop and maintain a broad spectrum of experience design artifacts to support organizational needs throughout the product life cycle, including but not limited to: UX research insights, user journey and information architecture diagrams, wireframes and low fidelity prototypes, high fidelity clickable prototypes and UX/UI design systems, etc.
- Continuously research and stay current with industry trends and product design best practices.
- Ensure digital products are accessible and meet web accessibility guidelines (WCAG).
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
- 3+ years of experience in UX design, with a portfolio that highlights multiple projects and your direct contributions
- Bachelor's degree in UX, human-computer interaction or a related field is a plus.
- Proficient with industry-standard design tools (we use Figma)
- Strong understanding of UX best practices, web accessibility guidelines, and responsive design principles.
- Experience with user research and usability testing.
- Familiarity with front-end development technologies and their capabilities and limitations, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Strong communication leadership and ability to articulate design decisions based on research and best practice
- Passion for designing solutions that improve the user experience, focusing on social impact and nonprofit work.
- Self-motivated, with the ability to prioritize and manage workload and meet critical project deadlines
- Ability to multi-task and work across several products at one time
- Passion for promoting emotional health and preventing suicide among college students.
- Passion for young adult mental health and alignment with JED’s Guiding Principles and Shared Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Antiracism.
Pay Ranges / Location / Travel Information
Pay Ranges:
The range listed on this job posting is based on JED's compensation posting ranges. Salaries may be higher or lower depending on experience and geographic location.
Location/Travel Information:
Please note that this position is largely remote but will require retreat/business meetings at JED’s central office in NYC or other locations as designated by JED leadership. Additional travel may be required.
The range listed on this job posting is based on JED's compensation posting ranges. Salaries may be higher or lower depending on experience and geographic location.
Location/Travel Information:
Please note that this position is largely remote but will require retreat/business meetings at JED’s central office in NYC or other locations as designated by JED leadership. Additional travel may be required.
About The Jed Foundation
JED is a nonprofit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults. We’re partnering with high schools and colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance misuse and suicide prevention programs and systems. We’re equipping teens and young adults with the skills and knowledge to help themselves and each other. We’re encouraging community awareness, understanding and action for young adult mental health.
Application Deadline
August 14, 2023
Department
Programs - Comms - Program Marketing & Campaigns
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
Remote
Workplace type
Fully remote
Compensation
$67,000 - $93,000 / year
Reporting To
VP of Digital Products
The Jed Foundation
www.jedfoundation.org
New York, NY
Unknown / Non-Applicable
1 to 50 Employees
Nonprofit Organization
