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We are seeking a Digital Designer to create user experiences and interfaces for various digital platforms, ensuring engaging and intuitive designs tailored to educational contexts.

Responsibilities: Design user experiences and interfaces for websites, apps, and digital resources; collaborate with teams for project requirements; prototype ideas in Figma; conduct usability tests.

Skills: Proficiency in UX/UI design, Figma, and Adobe Suite; strong problem-solving and communication skills; knowledge of HTML/CSS; understanding of WCAG accessibility.

Qualifications: 3 years of experience in digital design; Bachelor’s degree in a related field; familiarity with user research and industry tools.

Location: Onsite position in New Rochelle, United States; at least 4 days a week in the office.

Compensation: $65000 - $75000 / Annually

*This position is onsite at least 4x a week at our New Rochelle office.

Position Purpose:

• Responsible for designing user experiences and interfaces for websites, digital experiences, interactivities, games, and apps.
• Ensure the creation and implementation of customized educational experiences for the digital user.
• Produce high-quality solutions through flow diagrams, graphic designs, storyboards and site maps.
• Reviewing user feedback to determine potential defects or areas for clarity.
• Work closely Editorial, Design, and IT departments and company personnel to refine user experience and performing usability tests on software products or website features to ensure functionality.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design easy-to-use, engaging, intuitive user experiences and interfaces for a variety of projects and applications with consideration to end-user platforms/browsers.
• Collaborate with internal teams to understand requirements and processes in relation to contextual user behavior for design proposals
• Prototype ideas and provide Figma mock-ups with ongoing revisions based on feedback
• Present designs for review and positively accept constructive feedback to be able maintain fast-paced design-build cycles
• Apply knowledge of HTML/CSS and an understanding of how compositions translate to code in order to deliver best in class designs.

Job Requirements/Skills and Experience:

• 3 years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s degree in digital design or related field.
• Fully conversant in all WCAG accessibility requirements
• Comprehensive understanding of UX/UI as it relates to the ed tech market
• Excellent visual and organizational skills 
• Enjoy working in a dynamic environment across multiple projects.
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
• User product / research skills
• Knowledge of all relevant industry tools and software
• Interpersonal Communication Skills
• Problem-solving skills to determine solutions to user interface challenges
• Attention to detail and mastery of information design
• Excellent skills in Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Microsoft Office
• Ability to write HTML, CSS,
JS skills a big plus.

Salary Range: $65,000 - $75,000

*The base salary range represents the low and high end of the expected salary range for the position. The base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors such as geographic location, experience, education, and skill level.

ABOUT BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY

Benchmark Education Company (BEC) is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, with valid and reliable digital assessments that inform instruction. BEC is also a provider of exceptional professional development to educators.

BEC is recognized as a responsive publisher that offers equally rigorous and engaging digital, print, and hybrid learning materials grounded in the Science of Reading research. BEC monitors research outcomes carefully to create effective foundational resources that include strong decoding materials with systematic and explicit instruction and high-quality resources focused on language development and comprehension. BEC’s content-rich and authentic texts offer instruction in close reading and analysis, multiple perspectives, and authentic literature while building world knowledge and reflecting the individuality of every student in each diverse classroom.

Family owned and operated for more than 25 years, BEC is committed to partnering with educators to provide the best for all students through resources of exceptional quality, world-class professional learning, and effective and dedicated customer support.

Benchmark Education Publishing (BEC) and its affiliates are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

For further information, visit us at: https://www.benchmarkeducation.co