Description
About this role....

NWEA is a not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators worldwide through assessment solutions and insightful data. Driven by our mission - partnering to help all kids learn - we're transforming the way teachers teach and students learn.

We are looking for a Sr UX designer to join the UX team within the Product Engineering department. This designer is an advocate for the user and provides UX strategy and direction based upon the users' needs.

This designer needs to be collaborative, a strong communicator, and able to turn complex workflows into user-friendly, delightful products for our partners to use.

The Sr UX Designer is also responsible for organizing content into user-centric categories, creating a navigational structure, and interface requirements to support the task and information needed.

Must Haves...

• Be able to handle many complex workflows
• Experience creating information architecture and user workflow diagrams
• Ability to collaborate with a large group of stakeholders
• Can articulate design decisions with data and user research
• A portfolio showcasing your UX process

Traits for success...

• Creative ability to envision and articulate the user experience
• Strong knowledge of best practices in usability as it applied to websites and online applications

• Collaborative with stakeholders and fellow design & research team to build a delightful product experience

Preferred but not required...

• Experience using Sketch & InVision
• Working knowledge of the agile framework
• Knowledge of accessibility and accommodation requirements related to user interface development

Education and Experience...

• Bachelor's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human Factors, Information Design, Web Design or related field, or comparable experience in the Industry
• Two or more years' experience in documenting and creating interactive solutions to meet the clients' business requirements and objectives (or comparable education)

About the Product Engineering Team...

Comprised of nearly 200 professionals, NWEA's Product Engineering team offers our employees the ability to work with cutting-edge technologies, on a platform that has one of the highest concurrency applications in the Portland Metro area, that assesses nearly 10 million students annually across the world.

Our Product Engineering group is made up of large-scale teams focused across many tech fields like infrastructure, applications engineering, business analysis, operations, QA, and solutions delivery.

About us....

NWEA® is a research-based, not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators worldwide by creating assessment solutions that precisely measure growth and proficiency-and provide insights to help tailor instruction. For 40 years, NWEA has developed innovative pre-K-12 assessments, including our flagship interim assessment, MAP® Growth™; our progress monitoring and skills mastery tool, MAP® Skills™; and our reading fluency and comprehension assessment, MAP® Reading Fluency™. Educators trust our professional learning offerings to accelerate student learning and our research to support assessment validity and data interpretation. Our tools are trusted by educators in more than 9,500 schools, districts, and education agencies in 145 countries.

NWEA™ endeavors to make www.nwea.org accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please call us at (503) 624-1951 or e-mail us at onlineaccommodations@nwea.org and let us know the nature of your request, your location, and your contact information. This is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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