Senior User Experience Designer

Korn Ferry; Remote; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm is seeking a Senior UX Designer to join their product organization on a contract basis. The successful candidate will drive UX and product design for innovative learning solutions, collaborating across teams to deliver impactful user experiences. Key qualifications include strong visual design skills, experience with edtech products, and a human-centered design approach. This role also emphasizes collaboration, effective communication, and a focus on accessibility principles across user experiences.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Flexibility in working arrangements

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing edtech products, especially for adult learners.
• Strong ability to lead design projects from concept to final deliverables.
• Experience with user research and testing methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Drive UX design across product lifecycle for Korn Ferry products.
• Collaborate with teams to set product vision and architecture.
• Conduct customer research to shape design strategy.

Skills

Designing for edtech

Visual design skills

Human-centered design

Effective communication

Accessibility focus

Tools

Figma

FigJam

Job description

Korn Ferry is a global consulting firm that powers performance. We unlock the potential in your people and unleash transformation across your business—synchronizing strategy, operations, and talent to accelerate performance, fuel growth, and inspire a legacy of change. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking companies across every major industry turn to us—for a shared commitment to lasting impact and the bold ambition to Be More Than.

Korn Ferry Digital is a scaled product business unit within Korn Ferry that develops and sells our suite of talent products and HR technology, supporting clients across six solution areas:

• Organizational Strategy
• Assessment and Succession
• Talent Acquisition
• Leadership and Professional Development
• Sales and Service
• Total Rewards

OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE YOUR CAREER - It’s about exceeding your potential.

Korn Ferry is looking for a Senior UX Designer to join our rapidly growing product organization on a fixed-term contract for 6 months, with the possibility of extension depending on project needs and performance.

Within the learning and professional development solution, Korn Ferry Digital offers KF Learn and KF Alliance, innovative platforms designed to transform employee skills and behaviors. KF Learn delivers a wide range of training courses and content packages, either individually or through subscriptions, tailored to meet the diverse needs of employees. KF Alliance provides L&D teams with unlimited access to Korn Ferry's proprietary content, enabling them to customize and deliver learning programs quickly and efficiently. The expansion of KF Digital in this space is fueled by the flexibility and scalability of these solutions, which empower organizations to create impactful and ongoing learning and development programs.

The Senior UX Designer will help to build the next generation of enterprise solutions powering the world’s leading businesses across industries. Our UX designers are expected to work all the way left in the process, working with Product and Engineering, to help clarify problems and bring solutions to the table that are proven to move the needle for our customers and end-users.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive UX and product design across the entire product lifecycle, work with other designers and cross‑functional teammates to set strategy to deliver a unified experience for our growth suite of Korn Ferry products.
• Collaborate with other design team members on the overall product vision, information and experience architecture, and contribute to the new KF Design System.
• Practice human‑centered design methods to shape the right product strategy and define the experience through deep customer and end‑user research and testing.
• Work with Product, Engineering, Research, and Writing to prioritize experiences and jobs to be done with an effective balance of customer problem/value and end‑user needs.
• Drive better understanding of our different users, how our solutions fit into their workflows and KF service models, and how we can deliver our solutions in ways that help users operationalize our insights and intelligence seamlessly across their workflows.
• Be autonomous. You’ll take full ownership of your work and take responsibility for every last detail every step of the way to deliver the results you are aiming for with clarity and support.

What You Bring To The Table

• Proven experience designing incrementally toward a long‑term vision for next‑generation edtech or learning products, preferably focused on adult learners.
• Strong visual design skills with the ability to create polished, development‑ready designs.
• Demonstrated ability to autonomously lead design projects from initial concept through refined, production‑ready deliverables.
• Experience with UX for edtech products, learning experience design, or education—preferably with adult learners.
• You’ve shipped products, and understand what it takes to build scalable, global solutions for users working in a modern, post‑pandemic, intelligence‑driven workforce.
• Ability to break down complex problems into solutions that balance simplicity and power.
• A human‑focused design mentality. You bring empathy to your work, and incorporate user research, and usability testing practices into your process.
• Comfortable exploring concepts, tweaking flows, or refining designs that represent the big‑picture work.
• Comfortable translating and implementing findings from research and testing.
• Effective communicator and facilitator. You’ve worked in and planned sprints, identified opportunities for spike projects, and structured workshops to drive outcomes quickly and effectively.
• An eye for quality. The ability to deliver high‑quality work and speak to what makes it so. You care about the user and business impact and can create solutions that are oriented to these overlapping, and sometimes, competing outcomes.
• A strong understanding of core design principles that make even the earliest of wireframes easy to understand so that discussions can focus on experience and impact.
• You’re able to accurately articulate your design specifications for product development.
• You have an online portfolio or PDF of example work that you can share with us.
• An inclusive design approach to your work, understand that accessibility criteria and designing for people with disabilities (seen and unseen) is intrinsic to good product design and not something to check off at the end of the process.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS

• Collaborate closely with UX researchers, product managers, and engineering teams to ensure designs are informed by research insights and technical feasibility.
• Work extensively in Figma to create wireframes, prototypes, and high‑fidelity designs that communicate interaction and visual details clearly.
• Use FigJam and other remote collaboration tools to plan and facilitate workshops, design sprints, and ideation sessions with distributed teams.
• Translate research findings and business requirements into actionable design solutions that align with product strategy and user needs.
• Create and maintain user flows, journey maps, and process diagrams to communicate integrated workflows and design rationale.
• Participate in design critiques and provide constructive feedback to peers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Ensure accessibility and inclusive design principles are applied throughout the design process.
• Document design specifications and collaborate with engineering to ensure accurate implementation of designs.
• Stay current with UX trends, tools, and best practices to continuously improve design quality and team processes.

Preferred Experience

• Proven experience collaborating with cross‑functional teams, including UX researchers, product managers, and engineers, in an agile environment.
• Expertise in Figma for design and prototyping, and FigJam for remote workshops and collaborative ideation.
• Experience planning and facilitating design workshops, usability testing sessions, and co‑creation activities with stakeholders.
• Familiarity with design systems—both contributing to and maintaining them—to ensure consistency across products.
• Strong understanding of responsive design principles.
• Experience working on edtech or learning experience products, preferably for adult learners.
• Ability to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints in design decisions.
• Comfortable presenting design concepts and rationale to stakeholders at all levels.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices.

EDUCATION

Estimated hourly rate

75.00 USD - 100.00

Salary range represents the compensation Korn Ferry expects to pay to a candidate with the requirements for the job posted. Korn Ferry offers competitive compensation and benefits commensurate with experience.

Korn Ferry may use AI as part of its recruitment process, but all hiring decisions are made by humans.