Department Summary

The Digital Foundry sets the strategy to accelerate the adoption of industry leading practices across technology modernization domains, supporting a portfolio of enterprise-wide products and platforms that enable the activities of academic and administrative stakeholdersacross the university. The Digital Foundry team focused on three main pillars:1) Human-Centered Product Strategy and Design, including product discovery, user-research, accessibility, UX, and UI services.2) Cloud and DevOps Strategy support the evolution of our cloud and engineering capabilities across infra, data, and product delivery teams championing a cloud-first approach coupled with automation and AI capabilities to deliver features faster and more reliably.3) Solutions Architecture fosters the implementation of cohesive end-to-end solution architectures, ensuring baseline interoperability, reliability, scalability, and security capabilities are in place when architecting new solutions or updating existing ones.

Position Summary

The Senior User Experience (UX) Designer will champion and evolve the UX design practices for campus wide products to deliver accessible, frictionless, and delightful digital experiences. They will drive innovation in user experience design, developing personas and customer journeys, and actively participating in all design stages from product conception through launch. The Senior UX Designer will design wireframes and prototypes that are inclusive and intuitive for all users. They will present design concepts to product teams and stakeholders and follow an iterative process for refinement. This role will act as a technical UX expert, stay up-to-date in UX design trends, and ensure that human centered UX design is prioritized and shifted left by product teams.

The Senior UX Designer will positively impact UCLA’s operations and culture by ensuring UCLA’s products and applications are human-centered, efficient, and effective in service of the university’s academic mission. This team member will advance the University’s mission by delivering exceptional information technology services comprehensively and consistently across faculty, staff, and students. This role will execute UCLA’s vision while modeling UCLA’s culture and values.

Salary & Compensation

*UCLA provides a full pay range. Actual salary offers consider factors, including budget, prior experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business considerations. Salary offers at the top of the range are not common. Visit UC Benefit package to discover benefits that start on day one, and UC Total Compensation Estimator to calculate the total compensation value with benefits.

Qualifications

• Five years Experience working in one or more of the following fields: UX/UI design, product design, or related field. (Required)
• Extensive experience designing and prototyping in multiple tools, with different levels of interactivity. (Required)
• Extensive experience developing an approach to leveraging analytics tools to measure success, present opportunities, and support decision-making. (Required)
• Extensive experience designing in adherence with design system guidelines and/or human interface guidelines. (Required)
• Extensive experience designing based on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). (Required)
• Significant experience with front-end web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, or other programming languages. (Required)
• Experience working in a project-based environment using leading project management practices. (Required)
• Experience participating in activities to advance an inclusive environment that values equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. (Required)
• Experience in complex higher education environments, serving academic and administrative functions of a large public university. (Preferred)
• Seven or more years Experience working in one or more of the following fields: UX/UI design, product design, etc. (Preferred)
• Proven record of managing the design and delivery of end-to-end user-centered products. (Required)
• Advanced ability to drive informed, user-centered design by leveraging user research, market analysis, data, customer feedback, and technical constraints/opportunities. (Required)
• Mastery of Lean and/or Agile methodologies. (Required)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and is able to communicate complex technical ideas to a diverse community of colleagues and stakeholders. Can relay technical information to audiences of technical and non-technical stakeholders. (Required)
• Able to establish and advance positive working relationships and a strong rapport with a diverse community of colleagues including team members, stakeholders, and customers. (Required)
• Advanced organizational skills and is able to balance competing priorities and deliver concurrent projects to various stakeholder types. Experience working in a project-based environment using leading project management practices. (Required)
• Advanced problem-solving skills; ability to uncover root of difficult problems and scope solutions based on knowledge of available resources and timelines as well as awareness of vision and strategy. Seeks information from multiple and diverse sources to inform solutions. (Required)
• Thinks creatively and introduces innovations such as the incorporation of new technologies or processes. Thrives in an ever-changing, fast-paced environment. (Required)

Special Conditions for Employment

• This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement that includes regular visits to campus as needed (for those who work remotely, travel/lodging expenses are not eligible for reimbursement).The anticipated pay range for this position is $155,232 – $172,480, annually; salary is dependent upon the skills and experience of the selected finalist.

  NOTE: This position REQUIRES that a RESUME and COVER LETTER be submitted in addition to the application. Please have these two files ready to upload when applying.

• Background Check: Continued employment is contingent upon the completion of a satisfactory background investigation.
• Live Scan Background Check: A Live Scan background check must be completed prior to the start of employment.

Schedule

8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. PT, Monday through Friday and/or variable based upon operational needs.

Union/Policy Covered

99-Policy Covered

Complete Position Description

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