Product Designer

Discovery Education is in search of a skilled Product Designer to join our Product team to deliver intuitive, elegant, and functional experiences for our award-winning suite of blended learning K-12 products. Your aesthetic acumen, attention to detail, and proficiency in crafting intuitive, elegant, and functional experiences for our suite of blended learning K-12 products will be pivotal for success. Collaborating directly with data analytics + research, product management, and engineering, you will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of engaging, effective, and easily navigable educational experiences for students, educators, and administrators.

In this role, you will have the ability to drive innovation by partnering with our individual working teams through every step of the product development process — From defining overall strategy and concepting new features and functionality, to conducting usability testing to inform iterative product improvements.

About the role

• Solve problems, understand business goals, and explore innovative design approaches while working with product teams to plan and build iteratively
• Lead execution of high-quality wireframes, mockups, user journeys, and interactive prototypes
• Take challenging workflows and convert them into simple, intuitive, and elegant experiences
• Contribute to the overall creative vision by successfully integrating the DE brand while visually communicating the goals of the product
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams from content, curriculum, editorial, analytics, visual design, and engineering
• Develop all visual components for the UI including components, views and pages. Must be proficient in responsive and mobile.
• Help drive the vision of the product forward by partnering with our UX Research team to develop initial user testing scripts, usability studies, and follow up with recommendations based on user input.
• Manage and develop consistent design patterns to guide the look, feel, and functionality of the company’s portfolio of products, utilizing and contributing to the DE Design System
• Contribute to the evolution of the DE Nebula design system and component library

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of product design experience designing for SaaS enterprise applications and/or educational products in an Agile development environment
• You are highly proficient in Figma creating interaction diagrams, UI designs, components, interactive prototypes, and micro-animations
• Possess a solid design approach that encompasses all the core components of product design: Product strategy, research, feature validation, info architecture, wireframing, visual/UI design, prototyping, and usability testing
• You appreciate the challenge of turning complex problems into simple and engaging experiences, while understanding the importance of designing for accessibility
• Possess an understanding of the various product development methodologies (JTBD, Double-Diamond, etc.) and know when/how to integrate them into the design process
• You are a driven self-starter and collaborative design professional who can work with multiple cross-disciplinary team members to get to the best solution
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to clearly articulate solutions within the problem space
• You are a team player with a positive outlook and an entrepreneurial spirit
• Legal right to work in the United States.

Benefits

We are proud to offer employees and their families a comprehensive benefits package:

• Medical-Dental-Vision
• Health Care Dependent Care
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401(k)
• FSA/HSA
• Paid Time Off
• Volunteer Time
• Employee Assistance Program
• 7 Paid Holidays + Annual Winter Holiday Break (Typically the last week of December)

Discovery Education is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery Education is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or, genetic information.