University Marketing is hiring a seasoned UX/UI designer to create highly usable and accessible experiences that achieve the University's institutional goals in a digital context.

University Marketing creates websites that serve the entire UW-Madison campus. The university's gateway site (), the campus news site , and alumni magazine are a few of the web properties in our portfolio. Our ideal candidate will embrace user-centered design practices to understand target audiences and translate organizational goals into highly usable and accessible digital experiences like these.

The UX/UI Designer will play a key role in establishing and maintaining a digital design system for campus, including the development of a block-based WordPress theme.

• 10% Designs and conducts comprehensive and ongoing research with users to understand context and needs, utilizing methods such as ethnographic/field research, interviews, usability testing, and surveys
• 5% Analyzes, synthesizes, and communicates research data and metrics to inform policy, services, content, and interaction design
• 50% Designs complex information architectures, user flows, interfaces, prototypes, design patterns/systems, content strategies, and services
• 15% Leads the design and execution of training, facilitation, and outreach materials, and researches and designs best practices to promote the use of user-centered, accessible practices at the institution
• 10% Advises internal stakeholders on user-centered and accessible strategies
• 10% Identifies, promotes, and maintains relationships with various stakeholder groups at the unit, institution, and peer level to foster awareness of a subject matter domain

• Leverages user-centered design practices to understand target audiences and translate organizational goals into highly usable and accessible digital experiences.
• Serves as UX lead for UW-branded digital design system: both initial build of blocks, patterns, and templates and continuous improvements including new patterns and components.
• Produces clear, actionable guidelines that help designers, developers, and content specialists understand UW digital design system and how to use it.
• Builds collaborative relationships with campus colleagues and demonstrates UX design leadership within a decentralized organization.
• Maintains and updates the design system's library and assets.

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit:

Preferred
Bachelor's Degree

REQUIRED:
- Minimum two years' relevant professional experience in a UX/UI position.
- Excellent understanding of UX principles and user-centered design practices.
- Ability to create inclusive, accessible tools for a diverse user population.
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of digital design systems.
- Excellent research/interviewing and communication skills.
- Ability to analyze research findings to make design recommendations.
- Ability to convey a strategic vision to colleagues to improve upon the goals of the
website.
- Ability to work independently and with a team to meet deadlines.
- Excellent organizational and multitasking skills.

PREFERRED:
- Proficient with Figma or similar prototyping/design tool.
- Strong understanding of WordPress, including Gutenberg block editor.
- Strong understanding of graphic design and brand execution; well-versed in typography,
color theory, layout, and hierarchy.
- Experience organizing, structuring, and thoughtfully labeling content so that users can
discover and traverse information effectively.
- Experience working with stakeholders across a large and complex organization.
- Solid understanding of copywriting for SEO, usability, and accessibility.
- Have a base level understanding of front-end implementation (HTML, CSS) and/or the
desire to learn and grow this skillset.

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply.

Full Time: 100%

Hybrid/remote work environment.

Ongoing/Renewable

Minimum $77,100 Maximum $115,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
This position offers a generous benefits package, including more than 5 weeks of paid time off every year, participation in the nationally recognized Wisconsin Retirement System pension plan, comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, paid professional development opportunities, a flexible work environment and more. Learn more at .

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer at the time of hire. University sponsorship of an employment visa is not available for this position.

Click the 'Apply Now' button above to begin. After creating a UW Jobs profile, you will be asked to upload a cover letter and resume highlighting your experience and skills as they relate to the listed qualifications.

Kory Breuer

Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See for further information.

User Exp Arch III (B)(IT162)

A02-GENERAL SERVICES/VC FOR UNIV RELATIONS/MARKETING

Academic Staff-Renewable

295098-AS