Multimedia Content Designer III, Salt Lake , UT

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Grade: Professional 309

Pay Range: $80,300.00 - $

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Champions, advocates, and collaboratively develops Visual Design and Multimedia standards and guidance across Academy.
• Prepares a scalable system of Visual and Multimedia standards and guidance that empowers our Product teams to make delightful learner experiences.
• Co-creates product media strategy with Design Managers, experience designers and others and ensures media are aligned with desired product goals and outcomes;
  Recommends media strategies meeting objectives, messaging goals, and requirements.
• Participates in cross-functional, agile design team to develop engaging, effective learning experiences. Leads and manages media projects closely aligned with the goals of the company; coordinates multiple tasks and deadlines while working with others.
• Understands adult learners, under-served populations, and student body and designs assets accordingly. Works with Product to ensure technical feasibility of designs; works with front-end developers to leverage the latest widely adopted technical capabilities.
• Applies best-practice UX, UI and multimedia design skills to create proof-of-concepts, mockups, and prototypes.
• Rapidly produces multiple possible approaches for usability testing, A/B testing and stakeholder presentations.
• Works collaboratively to plan and practice user testing based on user-centered design principles, and adjust media accordingly, welcomes feedback from others and applies sound judgement.
• Creates media in all forms; expert videos, polished visual images, audio files that meet the project's objectives, animations with sophistication that shows advanced skill, and more.
• Develops and maintains a collaborative relationship with all appropriate internal and external stakeholders.
• Mentors peers to apply experience and subject matter knowledge to drive best-practice content design and resolution of challenging issues.
• Formally delivers cohesive presentations about projects and updates, and the role of media when it is deployed in various, differing contexts.
• Stays current with design trends and emerging media technologies.
• Branches into other disciplines related to company goals/projects and applies learning from those disciplines to enrich products.
• Reviews learner and stakeholder feedback and provides recommendations for design enhancements.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

• Professional: Critical thinker with excellent problem-solving skills; analytical strategist; comfortable launching and iterating quickly; entrepreneurial mindset; capable and experienced in planning and conducting studies; process-oriented; curious learner continuously seeking to improve skills and sophistication; self-motivated; effective communicator with excellent written, oral, presentation, and interpersonal skills; collaborative creative able to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment; reliable and committed contributor to the quality of our product;
  
  diligent.
• Technical: Expert in design, layout, and visual communication; substantial history of strong judgement when creating media in all forms, based on…