Remote Senior UX/UI Designer

Overview:
Lifeway IT is looking for our next Remote Senior UX/UI Designer to join our team! This individual will work closely with our Digital Commerce and Content Delivery development teams to design digital experiences that are emotive, engaging, and frictionless and ultimately, empower our customers to grow their faith. This role will also work closely with marketing teams to help align on creative strategies.

The ideal candidate should have an eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UX/UI skills, and be able to translate high-level requirements into customer interaction flows and artifacts and transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces.

Why work with Lifeway IT? At Lifeway IT, we enjoy great work-life balance, flexible scheduling, and 10% professional development time while working from anywhere (WFA). We get to use our technical skills to serve a greater Kingdom purpose - equipping and fueling every ministry.

This role is remote in the... U.S with occasional travel to Nashville for in-person team gatherings.

Responsibilities:
Work as a creative bridge between our technical and ministry areas aspiring to create customer delight when interacting with our various digital platforms

Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas

Build design systems that aid in designing our digital products and services

Deliver both low and high-fidelity responsive designs, wireframing, design and hand-off to development

Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions

Consult and collaborate with marketing to create positive user interface/customer journeys by applying site architecture methodology to produce interactive elements maintaining brand integrity across site

Provide guidance, input or creation of project strategy and customer use cases to best support both the end user and ministry goals

Conduct user research, usability testing, and evaluate user feedback; Maintain a data and research driven understanding to iterate on designs and produce development-ready assets

Ensure that our web experience remains cutting edge and industry leading, all while maintaining a cohesive modern aesthetic and clean look/feel in all design elements

Update and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards as needed

Educate the product team on the validity of proposed designs

Qualifications:
Lives out , showing deep commitment to Kingdom work

Bachelor's Degree: Graphic design, HCI, visual design, interaction design, or related degree

5+ years front-end design applying Agile methodology with developers, product managers, and other designers for responsive/adaptive web applications

5+ years experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps for digital product discovery, purchasing, and engagement

Experience in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud or other relevant prototyping tools

Strong understanding of typography, information hierarchy, color, and how these affect user experiences

Experience with Jira and Confluence preferred