Lead UX Designer (m/f/d)

Grow with us – Start your career at IU now and refine user experiences across IU Group’s digital landscapes!

At IU, we are on the hunt for a skilled Lead UX Designer (m/f/d) to transform and elevate the user experience across our educational digital products – for our students, staff and content creators. We seek a visionary equipped with a profound understanding of user experience design and a strong capability for conceptual and structural innovation. This role demands a talent for empathetic design thinking and effective collaboration with stakeholders such as product managers and developers, aiming to craft seamless and intuitive user journeys. You take on a unique dual role, helping our students with the most intuitive user & learning journey in the market, while creating the most intuitive process flows for internal users of our education platforms, such as lecturers and administrators.

• Lead the UX Evolution: Spearhead the conceptual and structural development of IU Group’s education delivery platforms, ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience across student-facing-products, content creator tools and lecturer interfaces, and administrative systems for staff scheduling and study programs, all in alignment with our brand ethos.

• Conceptualize User-Centric Designs: Develop comprehensive UX strategies that prioritize user needs and enhance user engagement across our customer facing and internal tech products.

• Maintain Consistency and Accessibility: Ensure a unified user experience across various digital interfaces, focusing on usability and accessibility in line with our design system.

• Prototype and Test for Usability: Create interactive prototypes and conduct rigorous usability testing to refine and validate UX concepts, iterating based on direct user feedback.

• Bridge Teams with UX Insights: Act as the liaison among product and engineering teams, offering UX guidance, clarifying requirements, and ensuring the feasibility of designs throughout the product development cycle.

• Shape Long-Term UX Strategies: Contribute to defining the long-term UX vision for our products, ensuring they meet business goals and user expectations.

• UX Advocacy: Serve as a UX thought leader within the organization, addressing inquiries and challenges with informed, strategic insights.

• Stay Ahead of the Curve: Keep abreast of UX trends, tools, and best practices to continually infuse innovation into our UX processes.

• Experienced UX Designer: You have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in UX design, demonstrated by a comprehensive portfolio showcasing your expertise in creating user-centric design solutions, specifically for app products and B2C products. Prior (lateral) leadership experience is a plus

• User-Centered Design Expert: You possess a deep understanding of user-centered design principles and the ability to apply these effectively in enhancing product usability and accessibility.

• Skilled in Prototyping and Testing: You are proficient in developing wireframes, prototypes, and user flows, with extensive experience in conducting user research and usability testing.

• Versatile Design Skills: You are adept at designing for various platforms, devices, and screen sizes, with a focus on creating seamless user experiences.

• Agile Methodology Practitioner: You have experience with agile development methodologies (SCRUM, Kanban, or similar) and the ability to work flexibly within cross-functional teams.

• Tool Proficiency: You are familiar with leading UX design software and tools, such as Figma and others relevant to the UX design process.

• Technical Knowledge: Understanding of HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, and their impact on user experience is a plus.

• Communication and Collaboration: You possess excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of conveying complex UX concepts to diverse audiences.

• Language Proficiency: Fluent in English, both written and spoken. German is a plus!

• Shape your career: Rapid growth opens up many new opportunities for you. Tell us about your dream career and we’ll help you make it happen.

• Work from wherever you want …: Modern tools and video meetings make it possible: with IU, the boundaries between here and there blur. You want to work from abroad for a while? No problem thanks to our WorkFlex benefits.

• … and flexible time: It’s your job: We trust you and give you the greatest possible freedom to organize yourself.

• Do you prefere to work on parttime or fulltime? Everything is possible with us!

• You have the choice: You are free to choose your equipment, because everyone has its own preferences when it comes to hardware.

• Take your knowledge to a new level: Where if not with us? Enjoy free access to all our e-learning platforms. In addition, we will finance you a complete technology course of your choice.

• Get a good rest: we push ourselves every day to go above and beyond. But we also take the time to recharge our batteries: with 30 days of annual vacation for all employees and an additional day off on your birthday! Need more time off? How about a sabbatical?

• Reach your destination sustainably: Germanys 9 euro ticket is history, we got the DeutschlandTicket for 7 €. You prefer to travel by bike? Then a Jobrad (bike leasing) might be the right choice. We offer many environmentally conscious options to be mobile both professionally and privately.

As our Lead UX Designer (m/f/d), you will leverage a deep empathy for users to craft accessible, intuitive, and engaging experiences. If you are a strategic thinker with a keen eye for detail, a profound understanding of user psychology, and a passion for simplifying complex systems, we’d be thrilled to have you on board. We offer a role where your insights and expertise will profoundly influence the UX culture in our expanding company, making a lasting impact on how our users interact with our digital landscapes.

Join our education platform team at Germany’s largest university with over 100,000 students! We are passionate, competitive, open to anything new – and we live to develop anything that makes our students’ digital education experience and our IU services better to achieve our vision “Everybody can access education to grow”.

Sounds like the perfect job for you? Then apply now!

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact Nicole at nicole.teixeira@iu.org.

Words are followed by actions: We take our “Culture Of Everyone” very seriously and would like to take this opportunity to expressly point out that you are welcome to join us, regardless of your origin, religion, gender, age or sexual orientation. Even if you have a disability, our doors are wide open to you. We look forward to a diverse community here at IU!