UX / UI Designer

Fixed-term, Full-time opportunity until the 17th October 2025
- $93,066 - $98,730 per annum (G06) plus 17% Superannuation
- Office-based, located full-time at Curtin University, Bentley Campus

**Job reference: 750689**

**Your new role**
We are seeking a talented and passionate UX/UI Designer to join our dynamic team at Curtin University. In this role, you will play a crucial part in revolutionising the digital experience for prospective students and key audiences.

To ensure alignment with Curtin's digital experience strategy and earlier stages of the future student journey, you'll be required to co-locate between both the project team and the Digital Experience team. The Digital Experience team, who are led by the Deputy Director, Digital Experience, are responsible for crafting leading digital experiences that delight and empower future students on their journey towards personal growth and meaningful impact.

**Key duties and responsibilities include**:

- **Align project objectives and user-needs**: Gain a deep understanding of Phase 1 outcomes for the Advancing Admissions project, collaborating closely with the project team to analyse the business case and user stories. Guided by the Digital Experience Project Lead, leverage these insights to shape a digital experience for Phase 2 that stays true to both project goals and user expectations.
- **Implement UX best practices**: Ensure project outputs comply with Curtin's Digital Experience and Style Guidelines, relevant legislation, policies, and brand guidelines.
- **Research & Analysis**: Conduct user research to identify pain points, behaviours, and preferences, using data to prioritize journey mapping and design solutions that align with project goals and enhance multi-platform experiences.
- **Journey Mapping**: Design comprehensive user journeys that address identified pain points and align to the projects must have user stories, ensuring smooth transitions across touchpoints and reducing friction in key user flows.
- **Prototyping & Testing**: Develop interactive prototypes and gather feedback to refine solutions, ensuring they effectively address user frustrations and meet project objectives.
- **Collaborate with cross-functional teams**:Work closely with the project team, marketing, DTS, and stakeholders to gather user needs and business requirements while presenting designs effectively.

**We are looking for someone with**:

- Strong conceptualisation skills with the ability to develop wireframes/storyboards, user flows, process flows and user interface designs and interactive prototypes. Exceptional visual communication skills and eye for detail with strong conceptualisation ability and design skills.
- Demonstrated collaboration, presentation and communication skills with the ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Demonstrated understanding of usability principles, digital accessibility standards and inclusive design best practice.
- A strong sense of time management, deadlines, and the ability to adapt diverse challenges and competing priorities.
- Good level of understanding of online technologies (eg. HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and latest UX best practices.
- Accredited qualification in User Experience, Interaction Design (Desirable).
- Strong design portfolio with an emphasis on large scale site designs and product roadmaps (Desirable).
- Experience in incorporating UX in the AGILE methodology (Desirable).

Work Requirements:

- Must have current work rights in Australia matching the tenure of the role.
- Based in Perth, WA or have confirmed plans to relocate.** Relocation and sponsorship support are not available.**

Join us in shaping the future of education by creating exceptional digital experiences that empower students and drive our university's success.

To apply, please provide your CV and a cover letter to allow us to assess your suitability for this role.

**Applications close: Sunday 10th November 2024, 4:30pm AWST**

**About us**
We are an energetic, dedicated team of academics and professionals working together to provide global solutions through quality graduates and innovative research. Curtin is a welcoming space where integrity, respect for one another, courage, excellence, and impact are essential to everyday life. Situated on Whadjuk Nyungar Country, our vibrant campus includes an art gallery, gym, childcare and medical centre, and endless food options including a supermarket.

**_Disclaimer_**:

- Curtin reserves the right at its sole discretion to withdraw from the recruitment process, not to make an appointment, or to appoint by invitation, at any time. We reserve the right to remove the advert earlier than the date on the advert._