This job is for a front-end/UX designer/developer who can turn a legacy collaborative learning environment into an modern, easy-to-use user experience. We are working with Sakai, a system used by students at many larger universities. Sakai is over 10 years old, and written in Java and an array of front end technologies, including wickets and jquery. While Sakai is quite adequate functionally, our goal is to refine the user experience to make it easier to use for students, faculty and administrators. A strong plus will be familiarity with Learning Management Systems (of the sort used in K-12 schools or universities) and great user experience skills.

The candidate will need to both produce excellent responsive web pages and also be able to create a implementation that will pass muster in an open-source community. The candidate should...

• be a team player with a positive attitude and an entrepreneurial spirit
• have a portfolio demonstrating clean and compliant code
• have a sense of intuitive design
• demonstrate a strong knowledge of typography and user interfaces.
• be familiar with Web standards.
• turn out exceptional work in weeks, not months
• be able to jump in on a project at any point in its lifecycle
• thrive within a data-driven design culture that reacts to changes and new feature requirements driven by our user analytics