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Kiddom is hiring a Sr. Product Designer. The role involves collaborating across the organization to enhance user experiences by researching user needs and challenges, leveraging Kiddom's mission and product strategy, and creating user-centric solutions. The candidate will work closely with the product development team to drive innovation and high-level decision-making.

Highlights

Main responsibilities include shaping user experiences and collaborating with the product team.
Must have proficiency with UX design tools, primarily Figma.
Bachelor’s degree in design and over 5 years of experience in product design are required.
Salary is dependent on geography and demonstrated role-related ability.
Competitive salary and meaningful equity offered.
Health benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
Policy of unlimited vacation time and 10 paid sick days per year.
Paid family leave for caretakers and at least 16 weeks for birthing parents available.
Experience in education technology and front-end technologies is a plus.

Sr. Product Designer Full Description

About Kiddom

Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.

The design team is looking for a strong Senior Product Designer to take on these challenges with us and to collaborate across our organization. We are a dedicated team whose priorities are to understand and support our users and the future of education. Join our team and play a key role in shaping user experiences by researching and understanding their needs and challenges. You'll leverage Kiddom’s mission and product strategy to inform high-level decisions and create solutions that bring the best tools and processes to our users. Collaborating closely with the entire product development team, you'll help drive impactful and user-centric innovation.

What we look for

Bachelor’s degree in design or a design-related field
5+ years of experience in product design
A portfolio demonstrating exceptional product design with wide adoption
The confidence and ability to make informed and integral decisions as a project lead
An affinity for strategic system-level thinking combined with mad tactical skills
A devotion to logical and extensible interaction design
Proficiency with the standard UX design tools - we mostly use Figma
Visual design skills and the ability to both utilize and extend existing design systems
Willingness to share knowledge and experience with other team members
Communication skills that relay all of the above to produce exceptional product
The ability to quickly prototype ideas or specifications, when words aren’t enough

Nice to have

Experience in education technology
Technical competence with front-end technologies: HTML, CSS, JS
UX animation and/or audio skills

Salary range is dependent on geography, past experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.

What we offer

Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day:

-Competitive salary

-Meaningful equity

-Health benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance

-10 paid sick days per year

-Unlimited vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.

-Paid family leave after birth/adoption of caretakers and minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.

COVID Vaccination Policy

Kiddom policy requires employees to be vaccinated before they visit an office or attend company events..

We have remote roles but in certain positions where office attendance is deemed to be essential to the role, offers of employment shall be conditional upon proof of vaccination.

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