UX/UI Designer

About this role

Job Title

UX/UI Designer

Location

Global

Position Type

Volunteer

Job Description

Volunteer Position
We are seeking full time and volunteer professional UX/UI Designers to help us design solutions for specific product capabilities. We have product teams that work in various frameworks and platforms.

SIL International is a faith-based nonprofit organization committed to serving translation teams worldwide. If you believe, as we do, that all languages are of value, form an integral part of people’s identity, and have the potential to serve them in a rapidly changing world, then you can be part of a software team serving translation teams worldwide.

Summary:
UX/UI Designers play a core and critical role on product teams. They are involved from the very beginning of product inception and discovery all the way through the delivery of the product. Product designers sit side-by-side with the product manager and software developers to discover, design, prototype, conduct user testing, and roll out products. In a modern product development team, the designer is not only responsible for user interface design but the holistic user experience. This includes the user interface, but goes beyond to include any touch point and interaction an end user has with the product, which can include communications, marketing, customer support, sales, and the business model.

Major Responsibilities:

• **Design feature-level user experiences as a member of a cross-functional software product team**
• **Understand users and their experiences**
• **Synthesize and communicate needs and research**
• **Create prototypes to express design ideas and learn from users**
• **Participate in UX/UI testing**
• **Articulate design decisions**
• **Participate as an integral and enthusiastic part of the team, exhibiting ownership, follow-through, initiative, awareness, and effective communication with peers and management.**
• **Work with the team around a cohesive pro...