User Experience Designer at Leinad Studios

The Job:

• Leinad Studios is seeking a UX/UI design professional who has a passion for making a difference. Our students have a diverse background, from working professionals to recent college graduates who seek to transition into careers in UX/UI design.
• Instructors will have a direct hand in changing the lives of our students.

Why teach with us?

• Instructors lead classroom discussions, emphasize the meta-skills and core concepts, support students in their projects and challenges, and provide feedback to students.
• You don't have to have a ton of experience with teaching! You just have to be a lifelong learner, proven teacher or mentor, or love to help people change their lives to succeed.

What You Will Do:

• Design and develop a comprehensive and up-to-date curriculum that covers key aspects of UX design, including user research, information architecture, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.
• Bring the learning experience to life by building community and enhancing relevance by drawing on your own industry experience
• Translate complex subject matter in a clear and concise manner for a diverse range of learners or skill levels.
• Provide support and encouragement to students as they go through a life-changing experience
• Create an engaging, positive, and inclusive learning environment for our students.
• Increase participant engagement using different facilitation tactics
• Guide large and small groups of learners in an empathetic manner
• Amplify student satisfaction by creating a positive classroom culture
• Communicating timely with students and leveraging effective interventions by sharing resources
• Ensure that homework is graded on-time, and occasionally assist with grading

Skills & Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree Preferred
• Minimum of 2 years of work experience in UX/UI
• A positive attitude
• Share your own professional experiences and industry insight with the students
• Be able to infuse empathy, support, encouragement, and fun into the student experience

Proficiency in the following is required:

• User-Centric Design Research: Design Thinking & Double Diamond Process, UX Interviewing & Surveying, Insight Synthesis- Persona Creation, User Journey Mapping, User Flow Creation, Problem Statements, Paper Prototyping & Wireframing, Usability Testing, Case Study Synthesis
• Visual Design and Interaction Design: UI Patterns, Interaction Design, Typography, Heuristics, Usability, & UI Iterations, Continuity & Branding, Accessibility, Figma / Adobe XD, Information Architecture, Card Sorting, Responsive Web Design, Atomic Design
• Industry-standard UX design tools and software (e.g., Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma).

Schedule:

• Mondays to Thursdays & Saturdays 9am to 5pm