User Experience Analyst

At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.

Summary:

The UI/UX Developer position conceives, creates, and refines complex use cases, site maps, flows, wireframes, and interaction specification documentation for web-based content authoring and creation tools and the realization of customer-experiences in web and mobile platforms. This position will work closely with product and solutions management teams to gather and understand key business strategies and user needs and to translate the strategies and needs into sound design concepts in tandem with a graphic designer

Responsibilities :

• Builds wireframes and UI flows to meet requirements and conform to Pearson standards and frameworks
• Translates requirements and solutions into usable, development-ready wireframes
• Defines complex key user requirements to build usability into products and services
• Collaborates with usability engineers, developers, and graphic designers to design and implement the user interfaces of various Pearson content authoring and rendering tools and components
• Utilizes user-centered methodologies to understand and analyze user experience, expectations and requirements
• Participates in high-level use case definition, prototyping, and other activities to capture and develop user requirements and integrate these into the product design
• Designs and simulates user interface and interaction flow using wire framing tools
• Writes complex interaction specification documents to support designs

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education typically acquired via Bachelor’s degree or appropriate combination of education and experience.
• Generally requires at least 5 years relevant experience and proven ability or appropriate training to supervise or manage others.
• Minimum 3 years dedicated experience in information architecture and/or interaction design for web sites and/or web applications for candidates with Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience with requirement visualization and prototyping tools such as Figma, Zeplin, Visio, or OmniGraffle
• Familiarity with user-centered research, such as usability testing, contextual inquiry, and field interviews
• Familiarity with technical issues around web development and ability to work constructively with development teams, including but not limited to understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, and various multimedia applications

Equal Employment Opportunity

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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Pearson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other group protected by law.

Job: PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Organization: Corporate Strategy & Technology

Schedule: FULL\_TIME

Req ID: 4030