Lead Product Designer

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Role Description: Join Magic School as the second design hire! As a Lead Product Designer, you'll shape our product experience with your strong UI/UX design skills and product management chops. You will take big ideas and make them into easily used, simple interfaces for teachers that integrate with their work & workflows. You will also continue to leverage our magical motif to improve our interface for our two main audiences - teachers/educators; and students - specifically, kids K-6 and 7-12.

Outcomes:

In this role, you will drive towards the following outcomes:

• Improve customer onboarding by 5%

  • Increase user engagement on our product

  • Measured through:

    • Retention / Usage rate

    • Average session duration

    • CTR

    • Feedback

  • Achieves outcome through data analysis, A/B testing, heatmaps, user surveys

• Accelerate speed of engineering/product functions by 20%

  • Create wireframes/prototypes

  • Key metric: Design iteration time 

• Create design system

  • Clear through-line of teacher mission; feels approachable for student & makes educators feel honored

  • Common interactions with components, core model

  • “I will measure their success based on if teachers say that it has been changed to better make them feel appreciated”

  • Passion for and inspiration for design/whimsy/mascots

Competencies/Skills: 

To be successful in this role, you will be a:

• Strong communicator/cross-dept collaborator

  • Work closely with PM, engineering team, CEO, education team, sales team

• Curious learner & possess strong listening skills

  • Interpret people’s needs/desires without knowing necessarily what they’re looking at - be able to create visual product from imagination & ask the right questions

• UX/UI jack of all trades

  • Create customer facing product & design - particularly for students and teachers

  • Transform abstract ideas into valuable designs and establish UX patterns across the product

  • Utilize design tools to establish design system, UI style guide, component system

  • Accessibility & usability focused

  • User research with distinct user personas/groups

  • End user product experience

  • Wireframing/prototyping

• Ability to balance multiple projects/priorities at once

Desired Experience:

• Experience creating a design system

• Experience in visual design and using various design tools

• Alignment in mission

• Experience conducting user …