Associate User Experience Designer

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories • Pullman, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), our website serves as a critical connection point between our customers, products, solutions, and mission to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. The User Experience Designer helps shape intuitive, accessible, and engaging digital experiences that enable customers find information, solve problems, and interact with SEL. Working closely with designers, developers, content writers, business stakeholders, and other cross-functional teams, this role applies user-centered design principles, research, wireframing, prototyping, and visual design to create experiences that support customer needs while advancing the SEL brand and business objectives. This position offers opportunities to learn, grow, and contribute to meaningful work that supports critical infrastructure around the world.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in interaction, graphic or visual communications design, human computer interaction, or a related field
• Basic experience with graphic design, interaction design and display design principles
• Basic experience with the methodologies and techniques of user experience design
• Basic understanding of user experience research methods.
• Strong writing, documentation, and speaking skills
• Ability to learn new skills, assume new responsibilities, and learn sophisticated problem domains

Nice To Haves

• MA or MS degree in interaction, graphic or visual communications design, human computer interaction, or a related field.
• Experience with UX design in sophisticated problem domains.
• Experience with UX design in a business-to-business environment.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in the development of products with world-class user experience
• Participating in an environment of open collaboration, critique, and communication
• Utilizing basic application of user experience design and validation principles & techniques, basic application of visual design and communications principles & techniques, and basic level of participation with user experience research
• Work under close supervision, following established procedures.
• Follow and apply SEL Values, Principles of Operations, and World Class Manufacturing Principles

Benefits

• Employer funded stock ownership plan (ESOP)
• Personal 401(k) options
• Top tier medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 10 paid holidays
• Annual vacation accrual starting at 12 days
• 9 paid sick days
• Paid family and medical leave that covers 90% of your pay
• STEM courses
• Apprenticeships
• Tuition assistance
• Engineering development programs
• Wellness benefits
• Fertility benefits
• Adoption benefits
• Flexible spending benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level