Fast Facts

MathWorks is seeking a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer to join their cross-functional team focused on enhancing online learning tools. The role involves driving the design process from concept to implementation to deliver user-centered solutions.

Responsibilities: Collaborate with development and marketing teams to improve user experiences, validate design ideas through usability testing, and promote best practices in design and accessibility.

Skills: Proficiency in design tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, strong communication skills for conveying complex design ideas, and experience in responsive and accessible design.

Qualifications: A bachelor's degree with 6 years of experience or a master's degree with 3 years, preferably in a STEM field. A portfolio demonstrating relevant design work is required.

Location: This position is based in Natick, US, with a hybrid work model.

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $90,000 - $140,000.

Job Summary

MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More: https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.

Would you like to join a User Experience team that is constantly solving new and exciting design problems in online learning? Join our cross-functional team and steer projects through the full design process, from early ideas and sketches, to wireframes and prototypes, and into implementation until your pixel-perfect designs “go live” to delight our users across the globe. 

We’re dedicated to crafting clear and effective designs for technical software products that improve the world. You may be right for this role if you: 

• Love working on complex problems and workflows 
• Can work efficiently on your own but love to collaborate 
• Enjoy driving the full range of design activities from concepting through final visual design 
• Are experienced and interested in online learning

Our user experience team has over 100 passionate professionals with experience in user research, usability testing and design. As strategic business partners, we work closely with our product teams and contribute throughout the product development life cycle to develop new products, features, and enhance legacy products.   

Learn more about our UX team 

MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates inclusivity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

Responsibilities

As a UX Designer, you will collaborate with members of a cross-functional development team to improve the user experience for MathWorks products and applications. You will follow a user-centered design approach and work collaboratively to research, design, and validate innovative solutions to complex problems. 

• Collaborate with development and marketing teams to design delightful, appropriate, and consistent solutions for online learning
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet user needs and project partners' vision 
• Produce design ideas and collaborate with teams to choose which ideas should move forward into detailed design and eventually production, based on usability testing, standard methodologies, and technical input 
• Help promote standard methodologies in design, usability, and accessibility within the design and engineering teams and across the company 
• Research and showcase industry trends and the latest technologies across mobile, desktop, and Web 

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications

• STEM Degree (e.g., Engineering, Learning Technology, Cognitive Sciences, Human Computer Interaction, or other relevant degree)
• Portfolio available for viewing, demonstrating a history in software/Web design  
• Proficiency with relevant design tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch) 
• Ability to grasp technical concepts quickly and translate those to UI representations 
• Experience communicating sophisticated interaction design ideas with clarity and persuasion 
• Desktop and Web application design experience 
• Responsive and accessible design experience is a plus