Role Description Traction is searching for a talented and passionate UX/UI Design Instructor to join our esteemed team. As an Instructor, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) designers by delivering high-quality, interactive, and hands-on educational experiences. Your expertise, combined with a strong commitment to fostering an inclusive and innovative learning environment, will empower our students to excel in the rapidly evolving world of digital design. - Curriculum Development: Develop and enhance comprehensive, up-to-date curricula for UX/UI design courses, ensuring alignment with industry best practices, emerging trends, and design tools. - Instructional Delivery: Conduct engaging and interactive classes, workshops, and design exercises to effectively teach UX/UI principles, design thinking, wireframing, prototyping, and user research methodologies. - Design Project Facilitation: Guide students through real-world design projects and challenges that simulate industry scenarios, encouraging creativity and critical thinking. - Design Critiques: Conduct regular design reviews and critiques to provide constructive feedback and mentorship, encouraging students to improve their design skills and creative problem-solving abilities. - Industry Insights: Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, technologies, and design tools in the UX/UI field, integrating relevant advancements into the curriculum to ensure students receive cutting-edge education. - Collaborative Learning: Foster a collaborative and inclusive learning environment where students from diverse backgrounds can actively participate and contribute to the design community. - Portfolio Review: Assist students in developing and refining their design portfolios, providing guidance on showcasing their work effectively to potential employers. - Workshop & Events: Organize and participate in design workshops, design sprints, portfolio reviews, and other design-related events to promote the program and engage with the design community. - Student Support: Offer guidance and support to students through regular office hours, email, and other communication channels, addressing their questions and challenges. - Continuous Improvement: Collaborate with other instructors and the curriculum development team to continually enhance the learning experience and ensure the program remains relevant to industry demands. Qualifications - Bachelor's or Master's degree in UX/UI Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or a related field. - Proven professional experience in UX/UI design, with a portfolio showcasing a range of successful projects and design solutions. - Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, or other relevant software. - In-depth understanding of UX/UI design principles, user-centred design (UCD), and design thinking methodologies. - Prior experience in teaching, mentoring, or instructional design is advantageous but not mandatory. - Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex design concepts in a clear and understandable manner. - Passion for education, design, and a genuine desire to help others succeed in their design journey. - Ability to create an inclusive and supportive learning environment for students of diverse backgrounds and experiences. Requirements - Role is Remote taught virtually. - Remuneration is $2,500 per course.

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• Lead the end-to-end design strategy for digital banking experiences—including web, mobile, and emerging digital channels—to deliver simple, secure and intuitive user interactions. • Design and optimize user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and visual interfaces for key journeys such as account opening, loan origination and digital servicing. • Champion an omnichannel approach by aligning digital experiences with branch, contact center, and marketing interactions to ensure a cohesive blended experience. • Conduct and synthesize user research, usability testing, customer feedback, and behavioral analytics to identify pain points and improve digital experiences. • Collaborate with Marketing, IT, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs and regulatory requirements into intuitive, user-centered design solutions. • Develop and maintain scalable design standards, UI patterns, and design systems that promote consistency, accessibility, and brand alignment across all platforms. • Collaborate with vendor partners in optimizing their platforms for Park’s experience objectives. • Leverage insights from market trends, competitive audits and emerging UX/UI innovations to contextualize and elevate digital banking capabilities. • Partner with analytics and product teams to define metrics, track KPIs, and evaluate performance of digital journeys to inform roadmap decisions. • Ensure digital experiences meet security, accessibility, and compliance standards while also reducing friction and improving customer satisfaction. • Maintain awareness of and adherence to Bank’s compliance requirements and risk management concepts, expectations, policies and procedures and apply them to daily tasks. • Deliver a consistent, high level of service within our Serving More standards

• Raise the bar across internal platforms and the customer-facing support portal by designing efficient, intuitive experiences that help both Kraken's teams and its customers get to resolution faster. • Shape and evolve the design patterns and systems used across our internal product suite, ensuring consistency and quality at scale. • Craft exceptional workflows by collaborating closely with other designers, product managers, engineers, and the operational stakeholders who use these platforms every day. • Influence decision-makers to uphold high standards of usability and experience quality, even in internal-facing contexts where UX is often an afterthought. • Own your work fully, taking accountability for design quality, outcomes, and measurable impact on team efficiency and satisfaction. Define and track the KPIs that tell you whether your work is actually making a difference. • Use data to inform your design decisions, drawing on usage metrics, research insights, and business context to prioritize the right problems and validate solutions. • Stay close to the people who use what you build by conducting research and gathering insights from internal users to continuously refine and improve your design direction. • Contribute actively to design reviews, both seeking and offering constructive, supportive feedback that helps raise team-wide standards.