Senior Product Designer

WHO WE ARE: MagicSchool is the premier generative AI platform for teachers. We're just over a year old, and more than 3.5M teachers from all over the world have joined our platform. Join a top team at a fast growing company that is working towards real social impact. Make an account and try us out at our website and connect with our passionate community on our Wall of Love.

Role Description: As a Senior Product Designer and the second designer at MagicSchool, you'll play a key role in building the design team's processes and shaping an outstanding product experience. You'll work closely with cross-functional partners—including the Lead Designer, Product Managers, Engineers, and others—to turn big ideas into simple, intuitive interfaces that reduce teachers' admin hours and bring responsible AI to the classroom, utilizing your full range of design skills and expertise in end-to-end processes and design systems. This role is a generalist UX/UI role, with a lean towards UI.

Outcomes:

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

• Deliver Data-Driven, High-Quality User Experiences: You will leverage data insights to create visually compelling and intuitive interfaces, drawing on your skills in iconography, illustration, interaction, motion, sound, and spatial design to boost user engagement and usability.

• Establish a Scalable, Data-Informed Design Process: You’ll develop and implement a data-driven design approach, integrating both qualitative and quantitative research to inform decisions, while building a scalable design system that ensures consistency and adaptability across products.

• Apply Data to Solve Cross-Functional Challenges Efficiently: Through a structured, data-backed design process, you’ll lead projects from discovery to execution, ensuring solutions are both adaptable for the fast-paced startup environment and tailored to meet the specific needs of the education sector.

Competencies/Skills:

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• End-to-End Design Leadership: Proven ability to own the design process from ideation through delivery, including discovery, brainstorming, prototyping, user testing, pixel-perfect execution, documentation, and design QA.

• Data-Driven Strategic Vision: Skilled in integrating qualitative and quantitative insights into design strategy, advocating for both B2C and B2B customer needs in collaborative, cross-functional settings.

• User-Centric Problem Solving: Ability to transform abstract stakeholder needs into intuitive, meaningful interfaces, effectively balancing internal goals with user experience priorities.

• Process and System Building: Experience in establishing design team processes and norms, including the creation and management of design systems, documentation practices, collaborative ideation, user research, and stakeholder alignment.

• Visual and Interaction Design Expertise: Strong foundation in visual design, particularly in iconography, illustration, and interaction, with the ability to design and manage visual sets that elevate the user experience.

• Mastery of Design Tools: Proficiency in Figma, with expertise in creating, evolving, and maintaining high-quality design systems and assets.

• Effective Communication and Collaboration: Strong verbal and written communication skills with a track record of effective cross-functional collaboration, offering and receiving feedback constructively.

Experience:

• Alignment in mission

• 5+ years as a product designer

Nice to have experience:

• Startup experience

• Animation experience

• EdTech/Education experience

Application Notice:

Notice: Priority Deadline and Review Start Date

Please note that applications for this position will be accepted until 11/11/24 - applications received after this date will be reviewed on an intermittent basis. While we encourage early submissions, all applications received by the priority deadline will receive equal consideration. Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to reviewing your application.

Our Benefits: We are proud to offer generous benefits, such as unlimited PTO, 100% employer covered health insurance, a wellness stipend, and vision/dental insurance.

Our Values:

• Educators are Magic: Educators are the most important ingredient in the educational process - they are the magic, not the AI. Trust them, empower them, and put them at the center of leading change in service of students and families.

• Joy and Magic: Bring joy and magic into every learning experience - push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.

• Community: Foster community that supports one another during a time of rapid technological change. Listen to them and serve their needs.

• Innovation: The education system is outdated and in need of innovation and change - AI is an opportunity to bring equity, access, and serve the individual needs of students better than we ever have before.

• Responsibility: Put responsibility and safety at the forefront of the technological change that AI is bringing to education.

• Diversity: Diversity of thought, perspectives, and backgrounds helps us serve the wide audience of educators and students around the world.

• Excellence: Educators and students deserve the best - and we strive for the highest quality in everything we do.