UX / Service Design Consultant

Higher Digital, Llc; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Higher Digital, LLC is seeking UX and service design consultants who lead user-centered research and design work to improve experiences for students, faculty, staff, and institutional teams. The role focuses on understanding real user needs, mapping journeys, identifying pain points, and designing improved services, processes, and digital touchpoints.

You may help plan and conduct user research, create personas and prototypes, facilitate co-design sessions, and collaborate with strategy,

Job description

UX and Service Design Consultants lead user‑centered research and design work to improve the experiences of students, faculty, staff, and institutional teams.

This role focuses on understanding real user needs, mapping current journeys, identifying pain points, and designing improved services, processes, and digital touchpoints. The work is often connected to wider transformation programmes where experience, adoption, accessibility, and usability are critical to success.

You will help institutions move beyond system implementation alone and focus on how people actually experience services across the organization.

What You May Work On

You may support clients to plan and conduct user research, map current‑state and future‑state journeys, identify service gaps, design service blueprints, create personas and prototypes, facilitate co‑design sessions, and work with strategy, technology, change, and delivery teams.

Experience We Commonly Look For

Common experience includes service design, UX research, human‑centered design, journey mapping, accessibility, inclusive design, digital experience design, facilitation, usability testing, and stakeholder engagement.

You May Be a Strong Fit If

You care deeply about making services simpler, clearer, and more effective for the people who use them.

You can balance user needs with institutional constraints and help teams make practical design decisions that improve outcomes.