Senior User Experience Designer
Sorry, this job was removed at 6:21 a.m. (EST) on Wednesday, February 8, 2017
By clicking Apply Now you agree to share your profile information with the hiring company.
Knewton is on a mission to personalize education for students around the world. Institutions worldwide use Knewton to deliver course materials that dynamically adapt to each student’s unique needs. We are a startup rich in eclectic personalities, are ridiculously dedicated, and are unified around a passion for democratizing education. We have also been recognized as a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum in Davos and one of the top 100 Best Places to work by Crain’s New York Business.
We’re on the hunt for a special Senior User Experience Designer with demonstrable native mobile design chops as well as foundational responsive web application experience to join our crackerjack UX team and help us continue to bring our vision to life. While you’ll have a chance to learn and grow here, you have to bring some strong experience to the table from day one.
About You
You’re excited by the opportunity to join the product team of a premiere education startup on a bold mission to dramatically improve higher education learning outcomes through a hyper-focused mobile-first UX layered upon a proprietary adaptive learning technology.
You are confident in your abilities and experience, yet always believing you have room to grow, learn, and refine your skill set. You thrive working with small, smart and highly collaborative teams with enormous influence on the development of mission-critical features and enhancements. You are a self-starter, and can work autonomously to achieve results against clearly defined goals. You’re not afraid of change, new technologies nor differing points of view, and embrace the future of UX and what that means for the design of human interaction with software products. You recognize that often the best solution is the simplest one, and are a ruthless simplifier - working reductively to boil experiences down to their bare essence in service of the user’s goals.
You have proven experience in creating unique data-driven design solutions to solve a user’s problems, both implied and inferred. You have worked in an agile software development environment and understand the critical piece the UXD team plays in the release of new features, minimal viable products, and established feature refinement. You care deeply about process and efficiency, and enjoy optimizing workflows internally, between departments.
The Role
We’re on the hunt for a special Senior User Experience Designer with demonstrable native mobile design chops as well as foundational responsive web application experience to join our crackerjack UX team and help us continue to bring our vision to life. While you’ll have a chance to learn and grow here, you have to bring some strong experience to the table from day one.
- 5+ years of experience designing for consumer software systems
- A UX Design portfolio showcasing:
- Strong organization and communication skills
- Demonstrable experience and/or passion for education and the ed-tech industry
- User journeys with clear user flows, wireframes, wireflows and prototypes on paper, Invision or similar.
- UI design of an extensible design system that is rules-based, and with a unique visual personality
- Efficiently articulate the goals, challenges and result of your work, with examples and basic metrics
- Experience and proficiency with UI animations, microinteractions, principles of gamification and associated tools
- Competitive salary, great benefits, and equity
- Flexible hours, no vacation policy, and paid maternity/paternity leave
- High-quality equipment (default: a new Macbook Pro with a giant monitor)
- Frequent guest speakers and tech/edtech Meetups hosted at Knewton HQ
- Social groups and sports teams
- Free lunch and dinner every weeknight in the office, all-day snacks, and a full bar
- Free monthly MetroCards/PATH cards
- A chance to change the world
Read Full Job Description