When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. You'll join our diverse community of colleagues who are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. So come join us and begin the most gratifying next chapter of your career.

For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Our products are used by educational institutions and certification and licensing programs to uphold integrity and increase learning performance, and by students and professionals to do their best, original work.

As a User Experience Designer at Turnitin, you will collaborate closely with other designers, product managers, engineers, researchers, data scientists, teaching experts, writers, and marketers to shape and ship exceptional user experiences — serving millions of students, instructors, and administrators in the global online education space. Our ideal candidate is highly motivated, collaborates broadly to create beautiful, user-focused solutions, and has experience in one or more of the following areas: product brand design or management, design systems, or data visualization.

• Deliver full lifecycle of designs that meet product requirements and business objectives.
• Create designs at all levels of fidelity; e.g. workflow maps, sketches, prototypes, wireframes, and high-fidelity specs.
• Conduct usability research and other data collection methods to iterate and improve workflows, features, and user-facing communications.
• Collaborate closely with other parts of the organization to balance design ideas with technical possibilities.
• Regularly accept and manage feedback and constructive criticism from many internal and external stakeholders to iterate toward the best possible solution.
• Define accessible, inclusive, and highly-usable interactions without sacrificing aesthetics.
• Efficiently document and communicate designs in formats that are easy to understand and effective in driving the project’s next steps.
• Provide visual QA for implemented designs to ensure designs are built to spec.
• Uphold and push for design quality—with a deep appreciation for details.
• Contribute to the evolution of Turnitin’s design system and interaction pattern library by adding to and regularly improving our core stylistic guidelines, components, and interaction models.
• Inspire and help cross-functional team members build and operate with strong user empathy.
• Facilitate creativity and collaboration among cross-functional team members to elicit ideas and cultivate shared understanding.
• Support Turnitin’s commitment to world-class design by providing regular, constructive critique to other designers in design reviews.

QUALITIES WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• You care tremendously about hearing from users and using their feedback to help guide your work.
• You are passionate about the balance between strong usability and world-class visual design.
• You understand and enjoy the experimental and iterative nature of product design teams.
• You enjoy digging into the details to define the best possible outcome.
• You can adjust to changing focus, priorities, and tasks.  You can work independently and meet deadlines.
• You have strong communication and presentation skills, written and verbal.
• You are an empathetic teammate and cross-functional partner.
• You are skilled at identifying small decisions that can have a significant impact.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATATIONS

• Must provide a portfolio for consideration, showing how you design for user needs and iterate on those ideas based on user feedback, engineering constraints, and stakeholder desires
• 1+ years of experience as a UX designer, product designer, or related role
• Fluency in design tools such as Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite

PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Experience designing for education
• Experience designing on machine learning, data, or growth teams
• Experience designing for web accessibilitySkills in product branding, motion, illustration, or design systems
• Skills in data visualizationSkills in UX writing
• Skills in HTML, CSS, or javascript

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes. 

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by  putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.

• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.

• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.

• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.

• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.

• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad.  We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!  

Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. We strongly encourage applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of age, gender, religion, marital or veterans status.