Job Description

Collaborate closely with global cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, researchers, and designers to define and design product features that meet business and user needs. Manage design projects from concept to implementation, ensuring high-quality deliverables and timely completion. Create wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and detailed interaction design specifications. Partner with UX research throughout the design and development process to run research studies and experiments, analyze findings, and iterate designs accordingly. Effectively communicate design concepts and solutions to stakeholders and team members through presentations, documentation, and other mediums, documenting all work throughout the lifecycle of a project. Ensure that designs comply with industry standards and regulations, including accessibility and data privacy requirements. Develop and maintain design standards, patterns, and guidelines that can be shared across the organization. Accountable for design quality and cohesion across product areas. Help fellow designers advocate for best practices and solutions with their teams, providing a strong voice for design within product development. Regularly evaluate existing processes, design documentation and tooling and make recommendations to design management when something can be improved

Skills

• Proven ability to synthesize, simplify and unify complex information into easy-to-use, efficient user experiences
• Deep understanding of information architecture, multi-step, and cross-platform flows
• Strong understanding of layout, typography, and visual hierarchy
• Proficient in a broad set of design tools used to solve and communicate user flows, interaction and motion depending on scope and phase of the project (including sketching, diagramming, and interface design tools such as Figma and Miro)
• Highly detail-oriented and a self-starter, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Expert verbal and written communication skills, whether in one-on-one or group situations; advanced interpersonal, collaboration, and negotiation skills; able to communicate complex ideas, goals and problems in a way that is accessible even to those unfamiliar with a project
• Advanced project management skills including planning and prioritization, communication, and risk management
• Experience working with developers within an Agile software development environment
• Comfort with ambiguity, complexity, and passion for challenges
• Knowledge of/experience with HTML, CSS, and JS a plus
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• Portfolio required

About the Company:

Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in corporate digital learning, focused on transforming today’s workforce for tomorrow’s economy. The Company provides enterprise learning solutions designed to prepare organizations for the future of work, overcome critical skill gaps, drive demonstrable behavior-change, and unlock the potential in their people. Skillsoft offers a comprehensive suite of premium, original, and authorized partner content, including one of the broadest and deepest libraries of leadership & business skills, technology & developer, and compliance curricula. With access to a broad spectrum of learning options (including video, audio, books, bootcamps, live events, and practice labs), organizations can meaningfully increase learner engagement and retention. Skillsoft’s offerings are delivered through Percipio, its award-winning, AI-driven, immersive learning platform purpose built to make learning easier, more accessible, and more effective. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com.

Job Description

Collaborate with UX research, product management, engineering and QA teams to develop UI design approaches that meet business goals and satisfy user experience needs Provide iterative design sketches, mental models, user flows, wireframes and high quality prototypes to describe navigation schema, user tasks, and user journeys for product features or enhancements Facilitate design workshops to gain consensus and inform design utilizing user centered design techniques Create sketches and prototypes to communicate design concepts to the extended team as well as management Work closely with development teams to assure integrity of designs in final products Leverage understanding of current and emerging technologies, industry trends and standards, and device capabilities Work with other UX team disciplines to develop comprehensive pattern libraries applicable across SumTotal suite Lead and mentor junior UX designers to create and implement usable, smart interfaces

Skills

• Bachelors or Masters degree in UX Design, Human Factors, or related field
• 5+ years of experience as a UX Designer for web-based, mobile or desktop software applications defining, developing, and documenting UX design and interaction requirements and specifications
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Proficiency in UX design and documentation applications (wireframing, prototype development) such as Invision, Sketch, Axure, etc.
• Experience working in Agile development teams and with other development methodologies
• Capable self-starter, self-motivated, able to work independently, prioritize effectively, and perform multiple tasks under minimal supervision
• A humble expert with an open-mind who knows that great ideas come from anyone and enjoys learning from and collaborating with others to deliver best-in-class experiences
• Portfolio with projects demonstrating process (conceptualization through realization) and design justification
• Demonstrated understanding of UI complexities such as cross-browser requirements and accessibility standards
• Experience running design workshops a plus
• Solid understanding of user-centered and design thinking principles
• Careful attention to detail, as well as ability to grasp multiple product requirements concurrently
• Experience designing interfaces to support a broad range of responsive/adaptive HTML/CSS Frameworks

About the Company:

Skillsoft is the global leader in corporate learning, delivering beautiful technology and engaging content that drives business impact for modern enterprises. Skillsoft comprises three award-winning solutions that support learning, performance and success: Skillsoft learning content, the Percipio intelligent learning experience platform and the SumTotal suite for Human Capital Management.