UniversalGiving®: UI/UX Designer Paid - Make An Impact!
UX Designer is needed in Menlo Park, United States.
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Client: UniversalGiving
Location: Menlo Park, United States
Contract: Part Time, Contract
Job Summary
The ideal candidate should have a strong commitment to design requirements of high-level wireframes, UI kits, UX, and prototypes. You are an accomplished UI/UX designer who wants to give back to Tech for Good. You want to give back and make an impact. We are excited to have you join our global team and help serve the world in philanthropy.
UniversalGiving is an award-winning nonprofit allowing people to donate and volunteer with top-performing, vetted organizations all over the world. 100% goes directly to the cause. All partner organizations are vetted with our proprietary Quality Model. UniversalGiving has been featured on the homepage of Bloomberg, Oprah.com, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. UniversalGiving also has been featured in more than 16 books, including the new edition Harvard Business Review Book, HBR Guide to Delivering Effective Feedback, Arianna Huffington’s Thrive, and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen’s Giving 2.0. We have also been acknowledged six times on Great Nonprofits’ annual Top Nonprofits lists and are highlighted in Huffington Post’s list of best volunteering matching websites. We continue to gain momentum, with dozens of articles in the Christian Science Monitor and monthly contributions on Forbes. To date, we have matched more than 22,000 volunteers worth $31 million dollars’ of volunteer hours.
Responsibilities:
- Creating a robust/attractive/scalable component-based design for UniversalGiving
- Creating user experience deliverables including: wireframes, sitemaps, user flows, process flows, user scenarios, data diagrams, and clickable prototypes
- Ensuring ideas translate to functional specifications, through entire development process
- Ensuring all designs multi-platform: Complete functionality desktops, mobile, tablets, etc.
- Building visually compelling frameworks that convey concepts and actions in simple terms
- Allowing the majority of UI to be editable by non-technical people through Content Management System (CMS)
- Executing all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- Must have E-Commerce website design experience
- At least 5+ years of UI/UX design experience
- Strong understanding of Human Centered/User Centric interaction design principles
- Strong knowledge of HTML/CSS3/Javascript/ReactJS, and other web scripting languages
- Experience working on Agile methodology and projects (Agile/Scrum development process)
- Proven experience designing, architecting, and optimizing websites and/or applications, with a strong preference for consumer-facing transaction-focused interfaces
- Experience creating responsive designs on website, mobile, all platforms’ standard displays
- Proficiency in Figma/Photoshop/Illustrator/OmniGraffle/Sketch/InVision, or other visual design and wireframing tools
- A portfolio featuring examples of visual & interaction design work with a focus on process
Duration and Location
The position is available part-time (5-20 hours per week)
Long-term commitment to UniversalGiving and our mission
We provide remote positions with a highly globally focused team from more than 20 countries, including Russia, China, Japan, Ukraine, Georgia, the Philippines, Haiti, Germany, Canada, the Kurdish population, South Korea, the U.K., Brazil, Kenya and many more.
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