THE ROLE
As a User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Designer, you will be our team's second full-time designer. You will primarily collaborate with our design lead and product owners to develop user interfaces and experiences across our core product and marketing site.
Your role will involve:
- Producing high-fidelity desktop interfaces for our core application and marketing pages.
- Leveraging design patterns and styles defined in Albert’s design system.
- Expanding and continuously improving the styles and components in our design system.
- QA-ing implemented designs to ensure they match the intended user experience.
BENEFITS
- Competitive salary. We observe the same pay bands, regardless of where you live. For this role, our starting salary is $75,000 - $90,000, based on experience and qualifications.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance. We offer a range of options, including the best BCBS PPO Platinum plan available. The company contributes 90% of the cost for our various medical insurance options and 85% for vision and dental.
- One Medical. We cover enrollment in One Medical to provide all employees with convenient access to primary care.
- Paid parental leave. Parents are eligible for up to twelve (12) weeks of fully paid parental leave after a year of service.
- A 401k plan. Save for retirement with a fully managed plan and a 1% match.
- Commuter benefit. Use pre-tax earnings on your commute through our managed platform.
- Flexible, guilt-free vacation. Take guilt-free vacations with no hard limit. Just be reasonable and considerate of the company and your teammates.
- Remote work. We are a remote-first company. The majority of our team is based in Chicago, where we were founded. However, we have embraced a remote-first culture and have colleagues across the country. We do not yet support international employees.
- Half-day Fridays. We value work-life balance and observe half-day Fridays every week.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Since 2014, Albert has been powering feedback loops for students and teachers to improve educational outcomes. We do this by providing students with engaging, thought-provoking questions and feedback and teachers with actionable data and flexible instructional tools. We believe we can make the biggest impact by working through teachers, equipping them with the highest quality practice and assessment content possible.
INCLUSION AT ALBERT
Albert is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. As we continue to grow, we do so with a focus on building teams representing the different cultures, backgrounds, ethnicities, and experiences of our users, students, and the world. We simultaneously strive to create spaces promoting personal growth, diversity, and inclusion.
LOCATION
We are a remote-first company. We are accepting applications from people who live and work in the following states:
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Louisiana
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
QUALIFICATIONS
What we're looking for:
- Excitement about working on our product specifically.
- Experience designing desktop-first interfaces with mobile considerations.
- 3+ years of full-time professional experience as a designer.
- A strong understanding of design principles including layout, typography, color theory, psychology, etc.
- A portfolio of relevant product desktop-class user interface work that you're proud to share with us.
- Proficiency with Figma.
- An open-minded experimenter, able to see design challenges from various perspectives and consider them objectively.
- Experience with researching and analyzing design patterns, best practices, user behaviors, user data, and feedback in order to create the best possible solution.
- A proficient understanding of HTML and CSS such that you can reliably predict how your designs will translate into code and can QA coded implementations to evaluate design fidelity.
- Knowledge of accessibility as it relates to code and design.
- Alignment with our culture and values.