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Great Minds is hiring an Associate Creative Director - Math. The role involves leading a team of designers and collaborating with senior math leadership to establish the vision for new product initiatives. This includes determining the look and feel of new products, overseeing the work of creative contributors, and ensuring brand consistency across various product use-cases.

Highlights

Lead designers to establish product vision and initiate new projects.
Oversee illustrators, photographers, writers, and designers.
Strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat.
Establish team goals and accountability processes.
Develop production design best practices and process improvement.
Bachelor's degree in design or equivalent work experience.
Full-time position.
Salary range: $104,000-$117,000, with potential variations.
Requires demonstrated interest in educational design for students or teachers.

Associate Creative Director - Math Full Description

Associate Creative Director - Math

Remote

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Product Management

COMPANY PROFILE
Great Minds, a mission driven Public Benefit Corporation, brings teachers and scholars together to craft exemplary instructional materials that inspire joy in teaching and learning. Our English curriculum, Wit & Wisdom®, Eureka Math™ and PhD Science™, all support teachers as they take students beyond rote learning to provide a deeper, more complete understanding of the humanities, mathematics, and the sciences. Founded in 2007, Great Minds now employs more than 1,000 people.
For additional information please visit: www.greatminds.org

OUR MARKET POSITION
Great Minds’ Eureka Math is the most widely used curriculum in the history of American education. It enjoys an unrivaled 40+ net promoter score. Eureka and its sister products, Wit & Wisdom English and PhD Science, embrace much higher expectations for all students and all teachers. In a market dominated by scripted, procedural materials that drive expectations down, Great Minds produces curricula that celebrate knowledge, respect the craft of teaching, and acknowledge the true capabilities of students.

Job Purpose
The Associate Creative Director leads a team of designers and collaborates with senior math leadership to establish the vision for new product initiatives. While learning about the objectives of a project, they explore: “Why is this product being created? Why will it be different from other products out there?” They define the value-add of integrated visual design for a product. They lead the design prototyping process and support all facets of implementation and maintenance of a product’s design.
A designer for Great Minds products should have an interest in design for children or teachers, and their portfolio should demonstrate an understanding or empathy for one of these user groups.

Responsibilities

Determine the look and feel of new products as part of the existing Great Minds product line
Oversee the work of independent illustrators, photographers, writers, and designers
Collaborate with the marketing team to ensure branding expectations are met and will be durable for various use-cases of the product.
Define the student and teacher experience with the program components.
Ensure that all designers are aware of the look and feel of all Great Minds Math products, as well as have familiarity with science and humanities products.
Look for opportunities to integrate ideas from one product into another (using art for more than one component, ensuring type styles and conventions build on each other).
Have a strong understanding of the existing products and their content (or be interested to learn).
Lead reviews of designs with senior leadership, gathering feedback and distilling it for the design team.
Evaluate and assign projects to team members according to their skillset and bandwidth
Establish team goals, meeting structures, and team accountability processes
Attend meetings to learn about upcoming and in-progress projects to assess how design can be an asset, learn about leadership objectives/constraints, and offer feedback
Lead the Math Team in implementing a design thinking process in development of products.

Job requirements

Required Qualifications

8+ years designing products for a wide audience working in partnership with business unit leaders.
Strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite (primarily Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat)
Understanding or awareness of Adobe Illustrator, InCopy, Powerpoint
Experience in developing production design best practices
Experience developing principles of design
Ability to give and take criticism and feedback on design work
Experience in developing new processes and collaborating with colleagues company-wide
Excellent communication skills (speaking, listening, inquiry, exploration)
Ability to create a team atmosphere in an entirely virtual environment
A demonstrated (in portfolio) interest in design for students, teachers, or kids.
A demonstrated (in portfolio) interest in design relating to math
A clear understanding of design thinking and how it differs from design-on-demand or a vendor-client design relationship.

Required Education

Bachelor's degree in design or equivalent work experience

Status

Full-time

Location

Remote

The expected base salary range for this position is $104,000-$117,000, however the offered salary may be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including, but not limited to location, work experience, skills and internal equity considerations. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.

A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.

Any communication to applicants relating to the Great Minds hiring process will only come from email addresses with the domains greatminds.org or greatminds.recruitee.com. If in the course of the application or hiring process with Great Minds you are contacted through another domain, are requested to provide banking or other sensitive information, or you note any other suspicious activity, please contact security@greatminds.org

Great Minds is an equal opportunity employer. We will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. Our policy reflects and affirms the organization’s commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.

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Original Job Description

Associate Creative Director - Math

Remote

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Product Management

Determine the look and feel of new products as part of the existing Great Minds product line
Oversee the work of independent illustrators, photographers, writers, and designers
Collaborate with the marketing team to ensure branding expectations are met and will be durable for various use-cases of the product.
Define the student and teacher experience with the program components.
Ensure that all designers are aware of the look and feel of all Great Minds Math products, as well as have familiarity with science and humanities products.
Look for opportunities to integrate ideas from one product into another (using art for more than one component, ensuring type styles and conventions build on each other).
Have a strong understanding of the existing products and their content (or be interested to learn).
Lead reviews of designs with senior leadership, gathering feedback and distilling it for the design team.
Evaluate and assign projects to team members according to their skillset and bandwidth
Establish team goals, meeting structures, and team accountability processes
Attend meetings to learn about upcoming and in-progress projects to assess how design can be an asset, learn about leadership objectives/constraints, and offer feedback
Lead the Math Team in implementing a design thinking process in development of products.

Job requirements

Required Qualifications

8+ years designing products for a wide audience working in partnership with business unit leaders.
Strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite (primarily Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat)
Understanding or awareness of Adobe Illustrator, InCopy, Powerpoint
Experience in developing production design best practices
Experience developing principles of design
Ability to give and take criticism and feedback on design work
Experience in developing new processes and collaborating with colleagues company-wide
Excellent communication skills (speaking, listening, inquiry, exploration)
Ability to create a team atmosphere in an entirely virtual environment
A demonstrated (in portfolio) interest in design for students, teachers, or kids.
A demonstrated (in portfolio) interest in design relating to math
A clear understanding of design thinking and how it differs from design-on-demand or a vendor-client design relationship.

Required Education

Bachelor's degree in design or equivalent work experience

Status

Full-time

Location

Remote

A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.

#LI-Remote

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