UX Designer - design systems (Knoxville, TN)

We are growing our team at Fernwood Thistle Learning Group Associates and adding a UX Designer whose main responsibility will be design systems. Collaboration between teachers and staff is strong. What you will do • Interview users and staff to understand where the current experience fails. • Design for tasks around learning materials that people do under time pressure. • Work with developers so designs ship as intended. • Sketch, prototype and test new flows with real people. • Audit screens for accessibility and readability. What we are looking for • Comfort with Figma or a similar tool. • Care for plain language and accessibility. • A portfolio showing your process, not only finished screens. • Two or more years of UX or product design experience. Nice to have • Background in learning materials. • Experience running usability tests. Working arrangement • Contract for four months, with clear deliverables from the first week. • On site in Knoxville. • We will tell you what to expect at each step of the hiring process.