UI/UX Designer

The UI/UX Designer at Raising The Village supports the design and enhancement of intuitive, accessible, and human-centered user interfaces for RTV’s digital platforms. The Designer focuses on translating user needs into clean, functional designs that work in diverse environments, especially for rural field users and low-bandwidth contexts, ensuring excellent experiences for different user groups. This role involves working closely with product managers, Web and Mobile Developers/Engineers, and Quality Assurance teams to deliver wireframes, prototypes, and user-tested visual interfaces that align with RTV’s design system and digital impact goals.

Human-Centered Product Design

• Conduct field-informed user research, usability testing, and contextual inquiry to understand user behaviors, constraints, and motivations across rural and field-based environments.
• Translate user insights into actionable design concepts, including personas, user journeys, wireframes, and prototypes that directly respond to real-world use cases.
• Advocate for inclusive, accessible, and localized design approaches that serve both tech-savvy users and those in low-literacy, low-connectivity settings.

Interface and Interaction Design

• Design intuitive, responsive, and platform-consistent user interfaces for mobile and web applications using modern design tools such as Figma.
• Create polished, high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes that clearly define layout, flow, interactions, and microcopy for complex workflows and data capture scenarios.
• Apply and adapt the RTV Design System to create scalable and consistent UI solutions, while identifying edge cases and UI gaps for escalation.

Design Implementation Support

• Work closely with frontend engineers to ensure design fidelity, accessibility, and implementation accuracy during development sprints.
• Prepare annotated design specifications, versioned files, interaction guidelines, and assets to streamline handoff and collaboration.
• Actively participate in backlog grooming, sprint reviews, Quality Assurance cycles, and bug triaging to ensure that user experience is maintained from concept to release.

Feedback-Driven Iteration

• Continuously refine and iterate designs based on stakeholder input, field test results, and post-launch usage feedback.
• Collaborate with the UI/UX Engineer to identify pain points, improve task flows, and raise UX concerns backed by evidence and user observation.
• Contribute to documentation and post-implementation reviews that drive future design decisions.

Design System Stewardship

• Ensure all components and UI patterns used in design work conform to RTV’s Intelligent Design System and help maintain visual and behavioral consistency across the platform ecosystem.
• Identify opportunities to expand or improve system components, and contribute to discussions on interface standardization and UX maturity.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Engage proactively with Product leadership, Quality Assurance Engineers, and Developers to co-create meaningful solutions aligned with user needs and project goals.
• Participate in product ideation, roadmap planning, and design critiques as a key contributor to RTV’s digital product development lifecycle.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience designing for digital platforms (web/mobile).
• Proficiency in Figma.
• Strong understanding of responsive and mobile-first design.
• Portfolio demonstrating clean, user-centered design.

Core Competencies

• Empathy and attention to user context.
• Visual consistency and attention to detail.
• Collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to take feedback and iterate quickly.
• Passion for designing for impact.