Position: Senior UI/UX Designer
Company: Faria Education Group
Experience required: 3y
Category: Design
English level: upper
Published: 2021-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Project description**
Faria was founded in 2006 to transition schools from paper to an online curriculum-focused learning platform. Today, Faria is a world leader in international education SaaS systems and services, a powering curriculum for over 10,000 schools & districts and 3 million students with a suite of three services: ManageBac, a Curriculum-First learning platform, and OpenApply, an online admissions service. 

We are looking for a highly skilled UI/UX design expert to help us take our products to the next level. This role will interface with all our products & engineering to bring to life new concepts and realize our future vision. 

If you are interested in this position, we are looking forward to getting to know you a bit better - so it would be great if you could send us a few sentences about yourself and answer some of the following questions:

- What do you think shaped you the most as a designer?
- What field of design are you most interested in?
- Have you ever designed complex dashboards/CRM/Web apps? 
- Why would you like to work with us?
- Please rate your skill level using Sketch App (From 1 to 10)
- Please rate your skill level to working with Design Systems (From 1 to 10)
- Please rate your skill level using Adobe Illustrator (From 1 to 10)
- Please rate your skill level for creating Custom illustrations (From 1 to 10)

Furthermore, we are very interested in your designs. To understand where you’re at, we need to get a comprehensive insight into projects you worked on. We are excited to see links to your Dribbble, Behance, and/or personal website showing your portfolio. We are mostly interested in your UI/UX design skills - please be sure that your portfolio is updated and focused on web/dashboards/CRM and mobile.

**Required skills**
- 3+ years of experience in professional design setting in agencies or product companies;
- A portfolio that demonstrates superior design skills and ability. Web app focus is a plus;
- Strong working knowledge of Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite - specifically Illustrator, Photoshop;
- Strong knowledge of visual design, user-centred experience design, interaction design, brand development, and the creative process;
- Collaborating with designers, developers, and engineers to create intuitive, user-friendly software excites you. You are not the type to operate in solo and welcome creative feedback as much as you welcome technical feedback;
- The ability to multi-task and solve challenges;
- Confidence and talent when it comes to presenting to stakeholders at all levels;
- A real passion for our craft: design, creativity, technology;
- Strategic understanding of the user-centred design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns;
- Ability to manage your time and adhere to deadlines.
- You could  be asked to perform a short test task (will be paid in case of hiring)

**As a plus**
— Experience in designing for education;
— Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, or a related field of study;
— Basic UI animation knowledge in After Effects or Principle/Flinto;
— Good understanding of Apple’s Human Interaction Guidelines (HIG) and Google Material.

**Responsibilities**
- Help in creating consistent, branded, high-quality experiences across web, iOS and Android;
- Work with product to develop deep empathy for our users, understand key use cases/user stories, and always design with the user’s goals and challenges in mind;
- Work closely with the engineering team by providing additional screen states, communicating the user flow and assisting with any miscellaneous requests;
- Create mobile-first/responsive designs from project start to finish, including diagramming user flows, creating wireframes and creating high-fidelity clickable prototypes, and delivering pixel-perfect dev ready designs;
- Communicate effectively with all parts of our organization; pitch designs and concepts to stakeholders;
- Apply your extensive experience in UX design best practices/patterns to design solutions while educating and building capacity within the product teams.

**We offer**
— Competitive salary and opportunities for career development;
— Professional growth in the international business environment;
— Cozy fully-equipped office in Faria’s offices;
— Great work-life balance with flexible working hours and free office lunches;
— Friendly atmosphere, sports activities and corporate events;
— Paid vacation and stipend for languages school, gym, external events and conferences, etc.;
— Retina MacBook Pro or another laptop of your specification, peripherals and displays included;
— Regular performance reviews.