Ui/ux Designer

Are you highly creative and are an avid problem solver? ✍️ Do you thrive off designing beautiful flows for users? Are you ready to jump into a fast-growing edtech company with an award-winning culture?

If you answered yes to the above, then we should talk.

The UI/UX Designer role is designed to support our growth by building scalable and delightful products across our array of education brands. With a great foundation, we’re looking for someone to help us pave a new and exciting way forward.

You will work closely with our Product Manager and VP of Software Engineering. If you’re looking for a work environment where creativity and collaboration are encouraged, new ideas are valued and opportunities for development and growth abound, then this is the ideal position for you.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Design delightful experiences for our teacher, school, and student users
• Drive UI/UX best practices throughout the organization by collaborating with various departments through the development process
• Map out user flows and turn them into low-fidelity wireframe and/or high-fidelity mockups to articulate to stakeholders and work with stakeholders to build a coherent product design vision across platforms
• Collaborate with all levels of the organization (especially developers and product managers) to align scope, design, and roll out
• Conduct user research and discovery by utilizing methods where deemed appropriate (e.g. usability testing, surveys, interviews), collect data, and synthesize results to make decisions
• Actively participate in meetings to gather scope requirements required for the product feature at hand
• Ensure product designs adhere to accessibility guidelines

A little bit about you:

• 2-5 years of experience in a relevant field is preferred (UX design, product design, graphic design)
• Experience in designing and iterating on websites and mobile apps
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment with developers and product managers
• Quantitative and user behaviour research and analysis skills
• Outstanding knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision
• Understanding of Jira software
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, or equivalent framework
• Excellent written and verbal communication, in addition, excellent organization and time management skills
• Laser focused in understanding the customer and users
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and multi-project environment
• Ready to design, build, measure, iterate and repeat

Bonus Points:

• Previous experience working, or teaching abroad
• Out-side-of-work extra-curricular design or product initiatives
• Basic SEO and Accessibility knowledge
• Experience with building design systems and UI libraries

Teach Away is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity in which we live and serve, including those with disabilities. If you require accommodation at any stage during the hiring process, please inform us in advance to arrange reasonable and appropriate accommodation. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.