UX/UI Designer

Skillable is a 100% remote and virtual tech company that’s modernizing the world of training. Come share your professional magic with highly talented, driven and fun colleagues who believe in the power of “skilling.” Experience what a true team focused on doing the right thing feels like! 

Our people and talent are what make us great and fun! We work together to create amazing solutions and experiences for our customers and their clients. We utilize our employees’ personal strengths to help our company grow and ensure our team is living their best, authentic life. We don’t just share our appreciation for our team members once a year with a branded mug—it’s shared on a daily basis. Our remote work environment blends the demands of work and life without the added pressure of commuting or feeling guilty about leaving early to visit the dentist. 

Come work with us and learn what teamwork and integrity blended with an emphasis on well-being and balance can do for your career! 

The UX/UI Designer is responsible for developing modern and innovative user experience designs that enable customers to maximize the value of Skillable products, resulting in improved customer satisfaction and increased product usage. Serve as a partner to product and engineering teams, ensuring strong communication and collaboration to create workflows and UX/UI designs that address the needs of all stakeholders. 

Responsibilities

• Translate product briefs and requirements into detailed user flows, wireframes, and screens. 

• Document current and desired workflows to support alignment across Product Management, Technical Product Management, and Engineering. 

• Support usability and functionality improvements across legacy and new product areas. 

• Create clear, well-organized design deliverables to support efficient handoff and implementation 

• Collaborate in a remote work setting, with cross-functional partners in an environment with evolving priorities. 

• Balance user needs with technical and business constraints to deliver feasible design solutions. 

• Create designs and intuitive, functional, user interfaces while placing heavy value on patterns and reusable components. 

• Partner with Developers and Product Managers on design system management within Figma. 

• Proactively consider accessibility standards in every UX design. 

• Work with product marketing to support in-product messaging assets. 

• Execute work with minimal supervision, maintaining a focus on quality and timeliness.   

• Partner with product & engineering stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes.  

• Actively participate in trainings/knowledge sharing to expand role scope and responsibilities. 

• Propose process improvements to enhance the overall UX/UI design of Skillable products.  

• Support and promote the company values through positive interactions with both internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis.  

• Other strategic business initiatives or special cross-functional project involvement as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, User Experience, Computer Science, Interactive Design or relevant professional experience 

• 5+ years designing and building interactive prototypes and mockups, translating user needs and business requirements into intuitive, visually polished user interfaces. 

• Experience and understanding of Learning Management Systems (LMS), content creation, and/or content delivery systems highly desired. 

• Experience designing complex or legacy systems, with a focus on incremental improvements. 

• Experience working with Figma Design, leveraging an existing design system and style guide. 

• Experience working with MUI (Google’s Material UI design system) or similar component libraries in close collaboration with engineering teams. 

• Strong documentation and organizational skills, including the ability to produce clear annotations and structured files for engineering teams. 

• Adaptability and comfort working within constraints (time, feasibility, legacy frameworks, and limited design infrastructure). 

• Ability and willingness to participate in multiple technical projects concurrently. 

• Experience designing for developer tools, enterprise platforms, or other technical domains is a plus 

• Experience working cross-functionally and promoting collaborative partnerships to drive results. 

• Proven ability to communicate effectively to various audiences/levels, both internal and external stakeholders, through various mediums. 

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage workload and meet project deadlines. 

• A high level of confidence, integrity, and professional courtesy. 

• Strong Microsoft suite experience, including teams or similar web conferencing and internal communication software experience preferred. 

• Naturally inquisitive with a desire to learn, solve problems and dig into detailed analysis. 

• Experience working in a fully remote team is preferred, but not required. 

• Thorough understanding (or willingness to learn expeditiously) of business operations and processes. 

• Proactively addresses challenges, seeking opportunities for continuous improvement. 

• Adept at troubleshooting in fast-paced environments and implementing corrective actions swiftly. 

Salary Range 

The base salary for this position is $110,000 - $145,000 annually. Consistent with applicable laws, compensation will be determined based on the candidate's level, relevant skills, qualifications, and experience along with requirements for the position and annual financial plans. 

Skillable is a distributed first team with employees working across the U.S., and we do not consider geography when determining compensation ranges. 

Please note that it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range. Skillable reserves the right to modify this compensation range at any time. 

Pay range and current benefit offerings are effective for 90 days from posting date.  Standard employment offerings are subject to potential change upon periodic review and analysis, at the discretion of Skillable.

What’s in it for You?  Rewards and Perks 

We believe in providing a suite of benefits that ensure our employees know we appreciate them as people first.  Skillable wants to be a company that promotes physical, emotional and all around well-being through our benefit offerings! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including: 

• Fully remote with a monthly stipend to pay for office services and supplies 
• Medical (2 plan options), dental (2 plan options), vision, health savings account with generous employer contributions, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, EAP, group paid life insurance, group paid STD and LTD and voluntary life/AD&D insurance, accident and critical illness options. 
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, healthy lifestyle reimbursements. 
• Open PTO, Paid holidays, bereavement leave, parental leave, caregiver leave and paid FMLA leave. 
• Friends and Family Friday to end our standard workweek at 2pm local time; Full company closure during the 4th of July holiday week. 
• Access to pet insurance; Access for employees and dependents to Skillable learning opportunities through our product and more!   

Working Conditions:  

The job conditions for this position are in a remote home office setting, requiring a space that supports privacy and focus to attend to regular and frequent video and voice calls. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Periodic travel may be required equaling up to approximately 10% of the time.

Skillable participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work int he U.S.  If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment.  

Skillable can only hire potential candidates with a primary residence in the following States: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, MA, ME, MI, MO, NC, ND, NE, NH, NV, NY, OH, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, WA, WI.