UX Designer

An ASX100 business part that is owned by Australian universities, IDP is a pioneer in international education services. Our_**_ _**_core business lines include student placement to Australia, US, UK, Canada and New Zealand institutions, English-language testing and training._**_ _**
- We are on a mission to build the world's leading platform and connected community to guide students along their journey to achieve their lifelong learning and career aspirations._
- As a co-owner of IELTS, we deliver the English test that is trusted by more governments, universities and organisations than any other. We also operate English language teaching schools in South East Asia. _
- We are innovators, driven by the needs of our customers and deep data insights. Our 5,000 team members based around the world understand that our services change lives - not only of our customers, but their wider communities. _
- By combining empathy and professional expertise with digital excellence, we create launch pads for our customers to achieve global success. _

**POSITION PURPOSE**

A great opportunity to help to shape the design and products at IDP Connect, the global market-leading provider of higher education research and search websites and apps. This is a new role that has been created to accelerate our growth plans and the development of our product team.

You will be working across a diverse portfolio of digital and UX/UI design projects and campaigns. Including both our B2B and B2C brands, products, and services ensuring an integrated approach and shaping exceptional user experiences.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Own the end-to-end design process, ensuring on-time, detailed, and polished deliverables across multiple concurrent work streams including, UX/UI design, UX research, and prototyping.
- Design innovative, user-centric user experiences and interfaces that delight our users and meet business goals.
- Collaborating with Product, Marketing, Content, and Commercial and teams on the creation and production of campaigns, experiences, and products
- Creation and production of effective multi-channel campaigns and design solutions
- Executing design work to ensure final deliverables are on brand, impactful, and deliver exceptional user experiences.
- Managing the quality of design throughout all phases of a project.
- Use market analyses, best practice guides, and user/customer research findings to drive and refine design decisions.
- Develop and build relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration, efficiency, evaluate the feasibility of proposed designs, and champion great UX.
- Oversee members of our in-house banner design team ensure that the best and most effective work is delivered for clients.
- Present concepts and designs to Product, Marketing, Technical and Development teams, and the global leadership team to gain buy-in on the proposed approach.

**WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR**

**Essential requirements**
- 4 to 9 years of experience as a UX designer or similar.
- Passionate about your craft and fluent in digital, mobile apps, branding and conceptual design.
- A good working knowledge of animated GIFs, Social, Digital, banners and preparing digital assets for production.
- You are a collaborator who understands how to challenge or embrace critical feedback to drive the creation of great work.
- Demonstrate a portfolio of work with a proven track record for successfully solving challenging UX design problems to create intuitive user interfaces
- Significant experience as a UX/UI designer working creatively with multiple brands and visual identity systems on integrated multi-channel campaigns.
- Expert knowledge and experience using industry standard design (adobe creative suite) and UX/UI and prototyping (sketch, invision, etc) software.
- Experience of working in close collaboration with technical teams.
- Familiarity with technical aspects of UX across iOS, Android, mobile, desktop and responsive web platforms.
- Experience and working knowledge of UX research
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills including the ability to present design concepts clearly and persuasively to colleagues, partners, stakeholders and especially to senior executives
- Ability to work efficiently and demonstrate a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment.