UX/UI Designer

Onward Search is a specialized staffing and talent solutions company that helps professionals find top jobs with the nation’s leading brands. We’re looking to hire a UX/UI Designer for a leading global education firm known for its commitment to innovation, learning excellence, and a collaborative culture that empowers employees to make a meaningful impact in education worldwide.

You’ll join the accessibility team to focus on accessibility, designing user-friendly K–12 web and mobile experiences that meet WCAG/ADA standards through collaboration and human-centered design.

This is a 4-6 month of contract opportunity. The role is located in Maryland, and is fully remote.

UX/UI Designer Responsibilities:

• Be a change agent evangelizing and bringing awareness to human-centered methodologies and practices across the company, supporting cross-functional product teams at different stages of understanding

• Solve complex design problems and drive multiple efforts simultaneously

• Approach each project with consideration for the larger School platform experience and business model

• Deeply understand how products connect beyond your own product area and be mindful of touchpoints in the overall user journey across the School platform.

• In collaboration with the UX Research team, dive into existing user research, metrics and balance with intuition and sensibility and translate user needs into tangible experiences for our solutions

• Design and build user flows, wireframes, concepts, and interactive prototypes that will be used as the stimuli for research events and will help define development requirements and inform technology decisions

• Confidently present designs to peers, stakeholders and leadership, and articulate rationales behind design decisions

• Build presentations and lead discussions about experience-related aspects of the solution with different stakeholders throughout the organization, focused on feedback and action towards next steps

• Design consistent approaches to patterns founded in research and best practice established from both inside and outside of the organization

• Embrace and evangelize pattern-based system design – UX standards, best practices, styles, patterns and guidelines – as well as contribute to our design system by introducing high-quality, accessible and usable patterns and their appropriate usage

• Develop creative and innovative accessibility solutions or implement accessibility best practices

• Ensure WCAG conformance and compliance with ADA standards

• Train and mentor peers on accessibility best practices

UX/UI Designer Requirements:

Design Requirements

• Portfolio that demonstrates your design work in web and mobile solutions. We want to see and understand your process and how you collaborate across functions within the Product Development Lifecycle.

• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Visual Communication, Digital Design, Product Design, Human Centered Design, or related field required. MFA or advanced degree a plus.

• 5+ years' work experience in product development, user experience design, product design, creative, or marketing industries.

• Knowledge in software usability principles and current trends and advances in interface design.

• Product development experience in Ed Tech a plus.

• Demonstrated success leading design efforts across multiple products to achieve a central solution.

• Extensive experience creating low and high fidelity sketches and design documentation.

• Strong communication, presentation and analytical skills.

• Advanced knowledge of UX wireframe, visual design, and prototyping software (e.g. Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD / Creative Suite, Lucid/Miro).

• In-depth understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript

• Deep understanding of responsive design approaches

• High-level understanding of accessibility guidelines and designing for optimal accessibility

• Demonstrated experience working in an Agile environment.

• Understand a target audience's needs and other motivating factors, and translate them into concepts for

Accessibility Requirements

• 3+ years experience of accessibility experience

• Familiarity with assistive technologies like screen readers, voice recognition software, and keyboard navigation

• Experience in designing accessible products

• Knowledge of WCAG, Section 508, and other accessibility standards.

• Create wireframes, prototypes, and design systems that prioritize accessibility

• Document accessibility efforts

(Required Education or equivalent related experience)

• Bachelor's Degree – human-computer interaction, human factors engineering, information architecture, digital design, interaction design, or related field.

(Preferred Education or equivalent related experience)

• Master's Degree – human-computer interaction, human factors engineering, information architecture, digital design, interaction design, or related field.

Perks & Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• Life Insurance

• 401k Program

• Commuter Benefit

• eLearning

• Education Reimbursement

• Ongoing Training & Development

• *To qualify for our benefits package, you must work over 30 hours per week and the length of assignment must be a minimum of 10 weeks.

To learn more about this UX/UI Designer opportunity, apply now. Our recruitment team will be in touch, guide you through the interview process, and advocate on your behalf.

The application deadline 5/2/2025