UI/UX Designer

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Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified, people-first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their development footprint. Ubi custom-curates Brazilian top 5% talent for their LATAM strategy, offering a unique combo of staff augmentation and employer-of-record services.

Ubiminds is assisting Heggerty, a growing brand in elementary literacy education, serving thousands of districts across the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Heggerty offers teacher-friendly phonemic awareness and foundational skills curricula, decodable books, and engaging professional development opportunities in person and online.

Apply now! This is a unique opportunity for you to not only accelerate your international career but also to help with the future of education.

The UI/UX Designer will join their team and enhance the user experience across their growing suite of digital products and digital learning experiences, aimed at teachers and young learners. You will work with Heggerty’s product and engineering teams to translate complex requirements into intuitive and simple user interfaces. The role requires a blend of creativity, technical proficiency, and a genuine passion for making teachers' lives easier.

Work with their product + content teams to understand the needs of teachers and students, and analyze user feedback to identify pain points and opportunities for improvement

Collaboratively build and maintain wireframes, user flows, interactive prototypes, and high fidelity visual designs to document and visualize the growing list of features within the Heggerty platform

Work with engineering teams to refine, iteratively develop, and test a high quality, accessible user experience incorporating user feedback

Ensure a consistent, responsive, and accessible user experience across a range of devices to ensure their products are usable by all learners.

• Advanced English skills – Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Previous experience designing interactive experiences for the web on cross-functional teams with product managers & engineering.

• Knowledge of human centered design, and UI/UX best practices

• Familiar with WCAG compliance and other design accessibility standards

• Experience working on and developing design systems, style guides, and component libraries using tools like Figma, Miro or others

• Online portfolio available that showcases design thinking and experience

• Experience in designing for teachers and young learners

• Experience with HTML/CSS/JS for prototyping

As UI/UX Designer @Ubiminds, you:

• Are placed in a product-based company, with the same treatment as their full-time employees.

• Have our full back-office support, from career guidance to HR and concierge services.

• Enjoy our remote-first policy – we are a distributed team, after all.

• Get your own MacBook (none of that "bring your own device" stuff here).

• Have access to growth opportunities with other amazing technology professionals, through tech talks, chapter meetings, and even remote happy hours for tons of fun!

• Improve your English through free lessons with a native English speaker - get to the next level of your communication skills!

• Candidate Referral bonus (promote Ubi to your tech friends, and get paid for it!)

• Miss working in the office? Our cool Florianópolis headquarters is available, whenever you want, with weekly quick massages & tasty snacks, soft drinks, and games

• An initial general quick chat with a Tech Recruiter 

• Interview with Tech Recruiter (specific chat about the job opening)

• Client process (this may vary)

• Offer