Lead UI/UX Designer

About the Company Founded in 2007 by the creators of Kali Linux, OffSec is the leading provider of continuous professional and workforce development, training, and education for cybersecurity practitioners. OffSec’s distinct pedagogy and practical, hands-on learning help organizations fill the infosec talent gap by training their teams on today’s most critical skills.

Responsibilities

• Define the Experience Vision: Shape the experience vision for the OffSec Learning Platform by understanding how learners want to interact with the platform and visualizing ways to deliver a seamless, engaging learning journey.
• Develop Platform Standards: Establish platform principles, standards, and experience guardrails to create a cohesive and purposeful end-to-end experience for users.
• Serve as UX Advisor: Act as the primary UX expert, advising the organization on principles, standards, and best practices to elevate user experience across teams.
• Design and Innovate: Plan and implement new, user-focused designs for our online learning platform, public-facing website, and collateral materials to ensure a consistent brand experience.
• Enhance Existing Interfaces: Continuously optimize existing UI designs, ensuring that the platform evolves with user needs and stays intuitive.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Engage with stakeholders to understand their business goals and objectives, aligning UX efforts with overall company priorities.
• Translate Requirements into Solutions: Translate technical and business requirements into intuitive, user-centered designs that support learner success and business outcomes.
• Infuse Creativity and Design Insight: Blend creativity with a strategic awareness of design elements to deliver impactful, engaging experiences.
• Prototype New Ideas: Develop prototypes for new product ideas, enabling quick feedback and iterative improvement.
• Validate Ideas Through Testing: Conduct testing of new ideas before full implementation to ensure usability, alignment, and effectiveness.
• Lead Ongoing User Research: Engage in continuous user research to inform design decisions, capture insights, and refine user experiences.
• Own and Maintain the Design System: Manage the Design System, ensuring it remains current, cohesive, and aligned with platform standards.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience as a lead UI-UX Designer or similar role
• 2 years of experience in video processing
• Knowledge of Figma, Adobe range of products including XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat
• Conduct/lead user-centered UX testing sessions to gather insights and validate design decisions.
• UI design portfolio
• Knowledge of Usability Factors in Human Computer Interaction.
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to discuss and explain design options
• Detail oriented
• Critical thinker
• Problem solver and customer-centered

Working conditions This role is a full-time salaried position. Work hours for this position are flexible and will be performed from a home office. Must be located in the EMEA Region.

Physical requirements The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform activities such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer screen, extensive reading, and visual inspection involving small defects. This is sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 lbs of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.