CareerVillage Inc is hiring: UX/UI Designer in Palo Alto

The award-winning global tech nonprofit CareerVillage.org is at an exciting moment: we’re rapidly growing, expanding our service offerings, and looking to grow our team with a full-time UX/UI Designer. If you’re mission-driven, passionate about developing socially impactful technology, and have a personal understanding of the challenges our learners face, we’d love to hear from you!

About CareerVillage.org

CareerVillage.org is dedicated to democratizing access to career information and advice for underrepresented people. As a UX Designer at CareerVillage.org, you’ll be helping build the technology to enact our mission: to democratize access to career information and advice for millions of underrepresented youth. You’ll be contributing to two products: (1) our flagship crowdsourcing platform, which supports millions of learners, over 150,000 professionals, and thousands of teachers who have joined our movement and (2) our new product, Coach, an AI Career Coach (read about it in Fast Company and Forbes). The majority of your time will be spent working on Coach. This is a full-time, exempt position, reporting to the Director of Product.

What you’ll do

• Design user experiences: Create intuitive, user-friendly, accessible, and visually appealing designs for web and mobile, translating complex user needs into simple, impactful interactions.
• Develop and refine UI components: Design and iterate on user interface components, ensuring a cohesive look and feel across our platforms.
• Collaborate on product vision: Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to align design with research insights, business goals, and user needs.
• Conduct design research and testing: Support user research and testing efforts, incorporating feedback into new and existing designs.
• Produce design assets: Generate wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes that guide the development team in bringing features to life.
• Broader organizational design: Potentially contribute to other marketing and communications materials for non product work streams
• Champion DEIJ: Ensure designs meet accessibility standards and reflect a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.

What you bring

• Degree or Certification in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience working in UX/UI web design
• Portfolio of Relevant Work: Demonstrated experience designing for web and/or mobile, ideally with a focus on products for social impact or education.
• Proficiency in Design Tools: Expert use of design tools (we use Figma) for creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals.
• Understanding of UX/UI Principles: Knowledge of user-centered design, information architecture, and interaction design principles.
• Experience conducting user research, including interviews, surveys, and usability testing

About you

We know that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role. The ideal candidate will have many of the following:

• A mission-driven mindset and committed to developing transformational social impact technology
• Direct or lived experience that helps you understand the challenges faced by our learners
• User empathy and experience or interest in working in the education or social impact space
• Detail-oriented and able to manage multiple research projects simultaneously
• Comfort with ambiguity and use the opportunity to experiment and find clarity
• Strong communication skills: Ability to articulate design choices and present ideas clearly to cross-functional teams.

What we offer

• Starting salary of $95,000-110,000
• 401K matching
• $1,500 Professional Development budget
• Very generous vacation policy
• An opportunity to improve real lives, solve hard problems, and make an impact on the world
• A fantastic and supportive organizational culture

Location

We are a remote-first organization and can hire for this role from the following states in the USA: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia. Hybrid optional in NYC. CareerVillage.org has team members worldwide, with our HQ in Palo Alto, CA.

CareerVillage is an equal opportunity organization that celebrates diversity (for more information about our approach, check out our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Guidelines). Diversity includes race, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, size, religion, sexual orientation, parental status, socioeconomic background, and many other parts of an individual’s identity. We are a fair choice employer: qualified applicants with a history of arrest or conviction are welcome to apply and will be considered for this role. Each team member’s perspective is integral to our success, and fostering an inclusive environment is everyone’s responsibility. At this time, we can only consider applicants with authorization to work in the United States on a permanent, full-time basis; unfortunately, we cannot provide visa sponsorship.