Senior UX Designer - Chegg Tutors Product - Chegg - San Francisco, CA
Design / Creative / UX | San Francisco, CA
Your goal – to improve the education process and better the lives of students -- through UX design.
Organization: Tutors Team
The Tutors team is an important part of Chegg’s up and coming Learning Services group. As a part of this team, you will be primarily focused on product design of student and tutor-facing interfaces. As a part of the larger UX team, you will work with our fantastic UX Research team, product managers, marketing, engineering, and business owners to lead the design efforts for a variety of interesting UI challenges.
Role: Sr. UX Designer
As a Senior UX Designer, you will drive designs for new user experiences on our ever-evolving tutors platform, lobby to influence our product roadmap, help define our UX process, run brainstorm and concept discovery sessions, craft visual mockups, and support engineering partners during development.
In addition to excellent interaction and visual design skills, strong candidates should have experience thinking in terms of end-to-end UI design, applying strategic thinking and business goals to designs, focusing on user feedback, and understanding the relation of visual design to the interaction. Of course, we also look for candidates with good collaboration skills, for working with product managers, usability researchers, and engineering.
Learn more about the fantastic Chegg UX team at: http://www.cheggux.com/
Responsibilities:
Participate in the product definition process with the Product Manager, Engineering Manager, and User Research. Drive the clarification of the user tasks and objectives.
Develop user experience design concepts, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, usage scenarios, task analysis, specifications, and other UX design deliverables.
Work with User Research to craft user testing prototypes and protocols in support of ongoing user testing.
Develop expert-level knowledge of competitive and complementary products and bring new ideas to the team.
Have a good understanding of current design patterns and guidelines for both mobile and web and be able to create a coherent cross-device experience.
Help create a vibrant tutor community that is focused on providing great lessons for students.
Design tools and UI that allows students and parents to find tutors who will meet their needs.
Ensure that visual design mockups meet the objectives of the user experience, fit with the overall brand and are consistent.
Job Qualifications:
5+ years as a User Experience Designer, creating excellent experiences that delight the customer.
High degree of creativity and problem-solving.
Ability to think and design holistically to create a cohesive and coherent product experience.
Exceptional understanding of fundamental design principles.
Strong conceptual, visual and analytical skills.
Proven leadership, organizational and communication skills.
Proficiency in UX Design tools such as Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks) or similar tools to create user interfaces.
Experience with responsive designs for desktop-to-mobile products.
Relentless attention to detail and to consistency.
Ability to collaborate with the larger team.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, or related field.
Preferred:
Experience designing consumer-facing products.
Experience creating interactive prototypes using HTML/CSS, InVision, or other prototyping tools.
About Chegg
As the leading student-first connected learning platform, Chegg's Student Hub makes higher education more affordable and more accessible, all while improving student outcomes. Chegg is a publicly-held company based in Santa Clara, CA with offices in San Francisco, New York, Portland, India, Israel, Berlin, and Ukraine. Chegg Student Hub Services Include: Chegg Study, Tutoring, Writing Tools, Math Help, Test Prep, Careers Search, Internship Admissions, and College Admissions.
Learn more about the fantastic Chegg UX team at: http://www.cheggux.com/
Life at Chegg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYHnkwiD7Oo
Chegg for Good: http://blog.chegg.com/category/chegg-for-good/
For more information, visit www.chegg.com
Chegg is an equal opportunity employer