Mid-Senior UI/UX Designer

Location: Melbourne – hybrid (not open to remote)

Contract Length: 6 months

Day rate: Dependent on experience

About the Company:

Salt have partnered with well-known educational institution renowned for being a leader in innovation.

You’ll join a highly valued community of academic and professional staff, known for their expertise and forward-thinking approach.

Working arrangements will be split between your home and their office, in the inner suburbs.

About the Role:

You’ll join the Research and Education Services team, on a fast-paced, high-profile digital learning uplift project that aims to redesign the learning and teaching experience of students & academics. This will result in better student engagement and improved user experience.

As a mid-senior level designer, you’ll be confident leading initiatives, and mentoring junior designers.

Please note this is a UI-heavy role, it won’t suit a UX Designer who isn’t comfortable creating high-fidelity designs.

Your Skills & Experience:

• Able to create design concepts to wireframe and then progress to low/high fidelity prototype
• Strong knowledge of Figma
• Quality driven designer with attention to detail
• Ability to articulate ideas clearly and present designs to stakeholders
• Develop understanding of core business requirements and user journey needs
• Confident conducting student UX testing and surveying to support user analysis and create user profiles
• Comfortable making suggestions and recommendations to business and product owners, and providing design walkthroughs
• Ability to create designs to match the existing brand, platform level design in a range of shareable charting and illustration (and animation -desirable) tools
• Excellent communicator, able to articulate complex information and instructions to stakeholders, faculty staff and students in simple, accessible terms
• Able to produce and enhance the UX design for the Moodle pages
• Moodle experience is desirable but not essential

Benefits:

• Opportunity to create impact
• Transform the learning and teaching experience
• Join a high visibility team within the university
• Enjoy an inclusive, supportive working environment
• Flexible working arrangements
• Immediate start for the right candidate
• Competitive day rate
• Likely extension

For more information, please apply now or email your CV & cover letter to jcorner@welovesalt.com

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.