Senior Digital Media Designer

Salary range: $62,000 – $75,000 per year, based on relevant experience and qualifications.

Required application documents: resume, cover letter, and a minimum of three references.

About the role

The Senior UX/UI Designer leads user-centered design for the University’s web and digital experiences. This role owns the end-to-end experience design process—from discovery and user research through information architecture, interaction design, UI design, prototyping, usability testing, and accessibility—partnering closely with content, development, and stakeholders to deliver intuitive, inclusive, and effective experiences that support University goals and user needs. This role will also create interface-supporting visual assets and assist with improving digital presentations (UI graphics, simple templates, slides, and banners).

Responsibilities

• Creates wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs that communicate user interactions, responsive behaviors, and edge cases; guides designs from concept through implementation; provides clear specifications and annotated handoffs for development and QA; and collaborates with developers to ensure accurate implementation across platforms and devices.
• Improves information architecture, navigation models, page templates, and user flows for complex, multi-level sites and experiences; creates UX artifacts such as sitemaps, user flows, journey maps, and low-fidelity wireframes to guide content and development; and ensures solutions support findability, clarity, and task completion across devices and assistive technologies.
• Participates in user research activities such as stakeholder interviews, user interviews, task analysis, and usability testing to identify user needs, behaviors, and pain points; synthesizes findings into clear experience insights, opportunities, and prioritized recommendations; and translates discovery outcomes into problem statements, success criteria, and measurable design goals.
• Contributes to shared UI patterns and reusable components, including guidelines, modules, and page templates, to improve consistency, quality, and delivery speed; documents interaction rules and component usage to support scalable implementation across sites; and maintains design system artifacts, including scalable component libraries in Figma or Adobe XD, while participating in the iteration and governance of patterns and standards.
• Partners with developers, content strategists and authors, digital designers, and stakeholders to align solutions to user needs and organizational objectives; communicates effectively through presentations, design critiques, and clear documentation; and supports stakeholder alignment by articulating tradeoffs and decisions based on user insights and constraints.
• Creates interface-supporting assets such as icons, UI graphics, and lightweight templates directly tied to UX/UI solutions, and coordinates with creative or marketing resources for campaign visuals and production-heavy deliverables when required.
• Applies accessibility and inclusive design best practices throughout the design process, including focus states, readable hierarchy, accessible components, and predictable interaction patterns; collaborates with developers to review implemented experiences for accessibility and usability issues and recommends remediations; and incorporates accessibility considerations into designs and documentation, including keyboard behavior, error states, contrast, and component guidance.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in UX/UI, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Web/Graphic Design, or a related field with formal design training, and five (5) years of experience designing digital experiences, such as websites or digital products, in a professional environment; OR nine (9) years of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong portfolio available for review demonstrating UX process and UI execution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a content management system (CMS) environment; Sitecore preferred.
• Experience working in higher education, an in-house creative team, or a professional agency environment.
• Experience collaborating with developers and understanding front-end constraints for responsive web experiences.

Skills

• Strong visual and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated mastery of UX design tools such as Figma or Adobe XD.
• Demonstrated ability in user-centered design methods, information architecture, interaction design, and usability practices.
• Strong UI design craft: layout, hierarchy, typography, and responsive component-based design.
• Ability to translate stakeholder needs into clear requirements and effective design solutions.
• Effective collaboration with multiple stakeholders, content producers, and web developers in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Working knowledge of modern web standards sufficient to collaborate on implementation (e.g., semantic HTML/CSS concepts and responsive behaviors).

Schedule

• Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
• Hybrid work environment: 3 days in-office and 2 days remote.
• Occasional evening or weekend hours required.
• 10% travel.

Working Conditions

• Driving personal vehicle required.
• May work around standard office conditions.
• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation.
• Use of manual dexterity.
• Climbing of stairs.
• Lifting and moving objects.

Benefits

This position is benefits-eligible. The University offers a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about employee benefits.

About the University

The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is located in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metroplex, a vibrant and diverse metropolitan area home to over 7 million people, one of the fastest-growing tech economies in the United States, and a wide array of arts, entertainment, and cultural activities. As a comprehensive teaching, research, and public service institution, UTA is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge through scholarship and creative work. With an enrollment of more than 42,000 students, UTA is the second largest in the University of Texas System. It is designated as a Carnegie R-1 “Very High Research Activity” institution and nationally recognized for its commitment to student success and service. UTA ranks No. 5 in Military Times’ “Best for Vets: Colleges” and is the top university in North Texas for its graduates’ salaries (The Wall Street Journal). UTA is designated as both a Hispanic-Serving Institution and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution and is No. 6 for undergraduate ethnic diversity in the United States (U.S. News & World Report, 2023). With a global alumni network of approximately 280,000—including leaders at many of the 24 Fortune 500 companies headquartered in North Texas—UTA contributes an estimated $29 billion annually to the Texas economy. UTA is expanding its regional footprint by building a new campus, UTA West, in Parker County on the far west side of Fort Worth, scheduled to open in fall 2028.