Discovery Education
Product Designer - Contract
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Contractor
💰 TBD
💻 Product Development
🗓️ March 28th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Collaborate with research and product teams to deliver interactive content.
- Create prototypes, wireframes, and complete Agile work tasks.
- Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, and similar design tools.
- Minimum 3-5 years of SaaS application design experience required.
- Experience in game development or ed-tech is a plus.
- Teaching literacy in K-12 is a strong plus.
- 6-month contract, 40 hours/week.
Product Designer - Contract Full Description
Art and Curriculum teams to collaboratively ensure success in delivering highly interactive and engaging content that is effective and easy-to-use.
You will have the ability to drive delight and empathy by partnering with internal stakeholders to deliver new and reimagined features for our user base. An ideal candidate will provide streamlined solutions to complex problems, weigh business goals with user needs, and continuously explore innovative design approaches that ultimately lead to joy and learning for students.
In this role you will:
• Collaborate with your thought partners to solve problems, understand business goals, and explore innovative design approaches that speak directly to your user base.
• Execute required design work in an embedded, Agile work stream to complete assigned Jira tasks in the time allotted each sprint.
• Engage with other members of the Design team in building & reviewing interactive prototypes, wireframes and other artifacts that demonstrate and document functionality.
Core Competencies for Success:
• Proven expertise in developing creative, intuitive, and engaging experiences, with a strong portfolio showcasing relevant work.
• You have a solid design approach that encompasses key components of product design: Product strategy, user research, feature validation, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, visual/UI design, etc.
• You are proficient creating interactive prototypes, micro-animations, wireframes and mockups with industry-leading design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, etc.).
• You communicate both verbally and written with precision, clarity, candor, and respect.
• You are able to clearly articulate and defend your thinking while maintaining flexibility in the design process.
• You collaborate and engage in thoughtful critique with your design peers.
Credentials and Experience:
• Depending on experience, a minimum 3 to 5 years working in SaaS application design in an agile development environment required.
• Prior experience designing in game development or ed-tech space is a strong plus.
• Prior experience teaching literacy in a K-12 classroom a strong plus.
• Experience visualizing data preferred
• Legal right to work in the United States
This role is designed to be remote. This contract will be for 6 months and 40 hours/week.
Discovery Education is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery Education is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the communities we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, protected veteran status or disabled status, or genetic information.
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