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User Experience Designer

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Natick, MA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Instructional Design

🗓️ August 17th, 2025

Figma

Edtech.com's Summary

MathWorks is hiring a User Experience Designer. The role involves solving design problems for Simulink/MATLAB by leading projects through the entire design process, collaborating with product and cross-functional teams to create and implement user-centered solutions that enhance product usability and innovation.

Highlights
  • Lead full design lifecycle from concept to implementation for Simulink/MATLAB products.
  • Collaborate with product, development, and marketing teams to build consistent user experiences.
  • Follow user-centered design methodologies and conduct user research including usability studies and interviews.
  • Utilize design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Sketch.
  • Design for desktop and web applications with a focus on responsive design.
  • Translate complex technical concepts into effective UI designs.
  • Promote usability, accessibility, and design standards within teams and the company.
  • Stay updated on UX trends and relevant technologies, including knowledge of MATLAB or Simulink.
  • Requires a Bachelor's degree with 3 years experience or a Master's degree with no experience in related fields.
  • Positions may accept experience gained through graduate programs or equivalent combinations of education and training.

User Experience Designer Full Description

User Experience Designer


Job Summary
Solving new and exciting design problems for Simulink/MATLAB. Steer projects through the full design process, from early ideas and sketches to wireframes and prototypes, and into implementation until designs go live. Driving the full range of design activities from concepting through final visual design. Work closely with our product teams and contribute throughout the product development life cycle to develop new products, features, and enhance legacy products. Collaborate with members of a cross-functional development team to improve the user experience for products and applications. Follow a user-centered design approach and work collaboratively to research, design, and validate innovative solutions to complex problems. Collaborate with development and marketing teams to design appropriate and consistent solutions for parts of Simulink such as system and software architecture design workflows. Work with cross-functional teams to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet user needs and project partner's vision. Produce design ideas and collaborate with teams to choose which ideas should move forward into detailed design and eventually production, based on usability testing, standard methodologies, and technical input. Help promote standard methodologies in design, usability, and accessibility within the design and engineering teams and across the company. Research and showcase industry trends and the latest technologies across mobile, desktop, and Web.
May telecommute up to 40%.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Requirements:   
Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Human Computer Interaction, a STEM field, or a related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a User Experience Designer-related occupation.

Alternatively, employer will accept a Master’s degree in Information Systems, Human Computer Interaction, a STEM field, or a related field and no experience.

Position requires demonstratable experience with the following:
  1. Relevant design tools (Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Sketch);
  2. Translate technical concepts to UI representations;
  3. Desktop and Web application design;
  4. Software, Icon, and Web design;
  5. User research, including usability studies, interviews, or surveys, to gather and understand user needs and behaviors;
  6. Responsive design, ensuring a seamless user experience across various device sizes; and
  7. Current UX trends, techniques, and knowledge of MATLAB, Simulink, or other programming languages.
 
Experience may be gained during graduate program. Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, and/or experience. Multiple positions available