Job Description

Position overview 

We are seeking a creative and result-driven User Experience (UX) Designer to join our team. The ideal candidate will not only have a passion for creating solutions to complex problems with a focus on achieving strategic goals and initiatives. As a UX Designer, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams spanning research, product, development, marketing, and customer relations to ensure the design of our products and services are intuitive, effective, and visually appealing. Your work will directly impact user satisfaction and engagement across desktop and mobile devices.  

If you are a designer who thrives in a collaborative and creative environment, we would love to see your work and hear how you approach solving user problems. Join us in creating user-friendly products that make a lasting impact! 

About Tallo 

Tallo is an online platform that connects students, recent graduates, and young professionals with educational and career opportunities. It allows users to create profiles to highlight their skills, achievements, and interests, linking them to colleges, employers, and scholarship providers. Its mission is to help individuals align their passions with career paths, providing access to scholarships, jobs, and internships. 

Responsibilities: 

• Ingest research data to understand user needs and behaviors and support the research team with design artifacts needed to obtain that data as part of a user-centered design process. 

• Design responsive wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups for both mobile and web. 

• Support the ongoing creation, implementation, and maintenance of a dedicated design system that supports established branding guidelines, usability, consistency, and development ease. 

• Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and other team members to deliver compelling design solutions that achieve product requirements while providing recommendations for improvement and optimization where possible. 

• Effectively manage tasks through an established agile workflow and have accountability for deliverables  

• Ensure consistency across the product by adhering to design systems and best practices. 

• Communicate design concepts, ideas, and rationale to stakeholders and collaborate on improvements. 

• Stay up to date with the latest design trends, tools, and industry best practices. 

• Analyze and interpret design metrics to measure user interaction and continuously improve the user experience. 

Skills: 

• Strong problem-solving skills with consideration to Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Human Factors and Visual Design.  

• Strong proficiency in Figma and Atlassian products 

• Experience with Accessibility, Typography, and Visual Design 

• Experience working directly with remote development teams 

• Experience working within agile methodology  

• Ability to work effectively with team members located across all North American time zones. 

• Ability to work independently within a fundamentally collaborative environment  

• Excellent communication and time management skills 

• A portfolio that demonstrates a variety of design work and problem-solving abilities. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in UX design, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors or related field (or equivalent experience if no degree). 

• 5-7+ years of experience in UX design, with a portfolio demonstrating successful design projects. 

Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level.  Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections.  Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.

We anticipate the salary range to be $ 68,572.50 to $148,738.80.  Eligible employees may receive a bonus.  This salary is not guaranteed, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors.  These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. 

Job Type

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works.  It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Stride, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Stride, Inc. complies with all legally required affirmative action obligations. Applicants will not be discriminated against because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.