UX Designer II

Our UX Designers at Renaissance are responsible for bringing our mission to accelerate learning to life by empathizing with the needs and behaviors of students and educators and innovating solutions for them through design. The ideal candidate is an all-around designer with both interaction and visual design skills., * Partner with design, engineering and product management team members in the execution and delivery of successful products and services, using a customer-focused, iterative design process.

• Contributes to planning and estimating work and participates in broader work stream coordination and expectation setting.
• Create high quality deliverables and executes based on UX goals and priorities without prescriptive guidance or direction, managing his/her own work to a larger schedule.
• Leverage, foster and extend the use of established UX techniques, templates, presentations, and assets in the creation of UX analysis, solutions, and materials.
• Contribute to the adaptation of Renaissance UX tools, methodology, and software, and proposes new solutions or optimizes existing ones.
• Create opportunities to foster collaborative cross-discipline dynamics. Drives UX team delivery excellence, furthering internal and external UX influence and goals.

• A degree in the study of Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Information Architecture, Human Factors, Psychology, Cognitive Science, or related field, or equivalent project/portfolio experience.
• 4+ years of experience designing interactive experiences from discovery to execution in a web-based software environment and the ability to share prior design work examples.
• A thorough understanding of UX methodology and lifecycle across key channels and platforms.
• A passion for solving problems for educators and students.

Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in common design software tools such as Figma (preferred)
• Deep understanding of design research methods to uncover customer insights.
• Demonstrable data visualization skills - translating large and complex data into highly consumable and intuitive workflows.
• Experience with resources such as component libraries, repositories, and internal communication tools.
• Familiarity with an Agile environment or juggling multiple projects, deadlines, teams and/or products.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience in EdTech or K-12 Education.
• General awareness of technology mediums (Javascript, HTML/CSS, etc.) to facilitate productive collaboration with front-end engineers.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks (Vue, React, etc.).
• Fluency in other languages, especially Spanish., Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Benefits for eligible US employees include:

• World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K-12 education technology! Renaissance's solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters-creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide. Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.