UX Designer - Remote Opportunity at KinderCare Education LLC in Portland, Oregon

Job Description:

Description

Working with KinderCare Learning Companies means using your outstanding talents to help set the foundation for lifelong learners, where you can collaborate with colleagues, grow and learn, and positively impact the families we serve.

With over 50 years of experience, 30,000 employees, and more than 2,000 early learning center programs, we are the most accredited leaders in early childhood education. Together, we create environments where kids grow and thrive. As one of only four companies to receive the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award six times, we're confident that you can grow and thrive here, too. We can't wait to meet you.

The UX Designer will be responsible for creating UX designs used by developers to create digital experiences for customers. The right candidate will have experience designing UX user flows, UI wireframes, and high-fidelity designs.

At KinderCare, we believe in progress over perfection. For the UX Designer, that means designing with the ability to be flexible and adaptable-all while keeping our audience at the center of every design experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design user flows, wireframes, UI layout, and basic navigation concepts that can be provided to front-end developers for engineering & coding


• Develop and lead usability testing for UX designs


• Own the design system that governs UX design across the enterprise


• Be involved at every stage of the product lifecycle, from discovery to design to execution, to ensure your approach works with technical solutions; be comfortable with incremental progress in implementation


• Fuse creativity, technology, and business acumen to develop designs that are usable, accessible, conform to UX best practices, and are on brand


• Lead brainstorms and product planning meetings in pursuit of seamless customer experience


• Mentor contracted designers, helping them shape their design perspective and hone their skills


• Keep up to date on UX design trends and analyze the competition


• Act as a catalyst for creative thinking and non-traditional solutions to UX challenges


• Collaborate with internal teams focused on providing digital enhancements to the customer journey


• Collaborate with external agencies or contractors as needed


• Partner with cross-functional groups, including product teams, front-end developers, back-end developers, marketing content creators, etc


• Maintain a dynamic design system for digital UX and be willing to lead user testing efforts

Qualifications

• Experience in UX design, including wireframes & high-fidelity designs


• Experience with user testing


• Familiar with UX/UI best practices


• Required: Proficient in Figma for the creation of wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs


• Preferred: understand CSS basics


• Experience working with an external agency and digital product teams


• Comfortable acting as a lead, directing the work of third-party designers as needed


• Requires true passion for digital customer experience as well as being a creative thought-leader; experience working with transformation initiatives and agile environments


• Strong attention to detail with an ability to communicate clearly and concisely


• BA in UX design, UI design, graphic design, or related field preferred; masters degree in the same fields is ideal


• Required occasional travel to visit childcare centers to meet with customers.

Our benefits meet you where you are. We're here to help our employees navigate the integration of work and life:

• Know your whole family is supported with discounted child care benefits.
  


• Breathe easy with medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets, too!).


• Feel supported in your mental health and personal growth with employee assistance programs.
  


• Feel great and thrive with access to health and wellness programs, unlimited paid time off and discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones.


• ... and much more.

At KinderCare Learning Companies you'll use your skills and expertise to help craft and contribute to our shared mission of supporting communities and encouraging lifelong learners. From our teachers to our cooks to our financial analysts, we are all passionate about crafting a world of learning, happiness and adventure for more than 150,000 children every day.

As the first national early childcare education provider to achieve the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute, we continue to follow the latest science-backed and evidence-based strategies for maintaining a safe and worry-free workplace.

Our highest priority has always been to keep our employees, children, families, and communities as safe and healthy as possible. KinderCare highly encourages its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves and their communities. We are proud to provide paid time off for employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. We are also subject to state law, local ordinances, and Health Department requirements for employees working in child care, school facilities, and corporate work spaces.

We truly believe that everyone belongs in our circle, and everyone deserves to be celebrated for who they are. By partnering with underrepresented groups and experts in DEI, we are identifying areas to improve and forging a path forward through accountability, compassion, accessibility, and inclusion.

KinderCare Learning Companies is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.

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