SENIOR UX DESIGNER

Reports To: VP of Product & Engineering 
Compensation: 85,000 - 104,000
Location: DoSomething.org is headquartered in New York City. Preferably, candidates will be based in the New York City Metro area, but candidates in other locations within the US may be considered. 

Tri-state area employees observe a hybrid schedule: 3 days in office (Tu, W, Th) @ 50 w. 17th Street, NY 10011. DS offers flexible working hours between 8am - 6pm EST.

WHO WE ARE
DoSomething is a thirty year old nonprofit fueling young people to change the world. These young activists have made a real difference from donating over 1 million jeans to homeless youth; to over 4,600 young people powering the petition that compelled Apple to create emojis representing people of color; and providing 585,965 menstrual products to achieve gender equity! On top of all that, DoSomething has registered 365,000 young people to vote and claim our democracy since 2018, with our voter turnout rate, above the national average, at 62 percent.

Want to know more about our impact? Check out our 2023 Year in Review.

 

OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE
DoSomething seeks a creative Senior UX Designer who can enable the programming and experiences we deliver to “break the 4th wall” of place, space, and community interaction. 

The Senior UX Designer will lead visual design (we use Figma) across technologies and tools with an eye on the ever-shifting landscape of how and where young people engage through technology. They will utilize member-centered design to realize final design products, including close collaboration with young people. 

They’ll be active participants with the entire Product and engineering team (about eight people in total) throughout our scrum process and collaborate regularly with others across the organization.

As a result, the Senior UX Designer will play a key role in fueling DoSomething’s millions of youth members to take action to address the most pressing issues facing their world.

WHAT YOU’LL DO
Refine & Design UX/UI Within the Member Journey (50%)
In close partnership with Programming & Impact, Communications & Marketing and Development partners, bring the digital/platform member experience to life.

• Create the web and mobile design across digital modalities, from early sketches to final, including high-quality wireframes, membership flows, full-color designs and/or other prototypes.
• In partnership with Product and Engineering stakeholders, document and translate designs to be Engineering-ready. 
• Illustrate how diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging may be embedded deeply into DoSomething as a product and experience.

Partner w/Programming & Communication teams to envision lively Programming and related digital experiences (25%)
DoSomething brings Programs, Events and much more to life via our platform, dosomething.org. You will help our teams to imagine how we best tell an interactive, compelling story!

• Partner with internal teams to recommend concepts for standing up compellingly-designed Programming and other media interactions (like Actions) on DoSomething. Create low-fidelity mockups to guide decision-making.

Engage young people as authors of their change (25%)
Conduct UX and UI research with members (2-4x/year) to ensure our audience is participating in the evolution of DoSomething. 

• Adopt and pursue a human-centered design process and serve as an internal voice for our members.
• In collaboration with Product and Programming collaborators, craft research protocols.
• Implement HX workshops with members; test concepts and full-color designs and synthesize results.

WHO YOU ARE
WHAT YOU BRING

• 3-5+ years of product design, HX design, and/or visual design experience, ideally involving teen and/or young-adult-focused products and/or educational technologies. 
• A portfolio that demonstrates human-centered UX and UI designs for several different products and/or technologies. 
• Experience with design tools (Figma and Figjam are our primary tools). 
• Experience translating designs to Product stakeholders and/or clarifying in collaboration with front-end Engineers preferred but not required.
• Strong understanding of how diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are centered within HX design. 
• Strong understanding of responsive design and technology design systems; understanding of accessibility in design preferred.
• Experience working with Utopia helpful but not required.

SELECT PERKS & BENEFITS

• 3 weeks vacation, 11 paid federal holidays, paid winter holiday break (from Christmas to New Years), and ½ Day Summer Fridays (Memorial Day to Labor Day), fully remote August
• Medical, vision, and dental premiums fully covered by us 
• $1000 personal stipend each year for your professional development - additional funds may available at departmental level
• 403b plan which DoSomething matches up to $2,500
• Additional milestone perks include additional PTO and paid sabbatical