HOMER has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Director, Digital Product Design to join our growing team! This role will report into our NYC office.

HOMER, a BEGiN brand, is the proven early learning program that provides the best educational start possible. We offer personalized, fun, and proven learning products for kids ages 2-8 to help build confidence, mastery, and a love of learning. We are deeply committed to our members and to their children, and we are building a creative and strategic team to develop a portfolio of early learning products that support learning everywhere.

The Senior Director, Digital Product Design will be responsible for building a world class product design discipline at HOMER. As a player/coach, you’ll lead a team of designers supporting a portfolio of products targeted to both children and parents. You’ll establish highly scalable design processes that support the growing velocity of HOMER’s tech teams, champion our design standards, and own design execution across our products.

You will:

• Partner with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, content, marketing and data) to deliver a consistent and high quality experience across multiple products. 
• Lead and mentor a team of designers working across multiple products and teams, while balancing your direct contributions
• Lead the team in best practices including design methodology, prototyping, sharing, research, feedback intake and engineering partnership
• Create prototypes to validate design concepts with users. 
• Design user experiences from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity pixel perfect mockups. 
• Partner with product and engineering to design and build scalable solutions that meet the diverse needs of our users. 
• Partner with the product and project leads on allocating resources, and in driving continuous improvement and team velocity. 
• Communicate design principles, frameworks and design directions to your team. 
• Communicate design specifications to engineers and validate completed work.
• Establish a creative process and design culture that knows when to explore broadly, but is attentive to details. 
• Establish and foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation and collaboration across all disciplines. 

You must have:

• At least 8+ years of product design experience with consumer-facing products
• At least 2-3 years managing a high performance design team across multiple teams and products
• A distinctive portfolio of work that demonstrates a strong understanding of user-centered design and a deep understanding of UI/UX best practices on web and mobile. 
• Deep acumen with design systems, tools, processes and best practices
• Proven effectiveness partnering with engineering organizations to deliver best-in-class design-intensive product experiences
• Excellent communication skills with the capacity to create alignment across multiple creative teams, marketing, product and engineering
• Ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with getting features and products out the door. 
• Strong knowledge of prototyping, user testing and research, validated learning, A/B testing and agile development practices
• A passion for Homer’s mission. 

We like people who are:

• Results oriented, hands-on and passionate about our industry (education) and our consumers (children, parents and educators)
• Collaborative, and thrive in startup environments
• Able and willing to learn new technologies and styles

What you’ll get:

• HOMER offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits
• Smart, passionate, and engaged co-workers
• Excellent top-tier Medical/Dental/Vision benefits
• A chance to have a big impact
• A chance to bring a love of reading and learning to children globally

HOMER is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to apply. HOMER does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, national origin, citizenship, age, mental or physical disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law.