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Senior Product Designer
Product
hybrid: Los Angeles
Salary range $150,000 - $175,000
added Thu Aug 31, 2023
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About the Role:
We’re looking for a Product Designer to join our small but mighty product team and influence the overall Kira Learning experience. As a collaborative member of the team, you’ll support projects around the entire product lifecycle, from early concepts, interactive flows, and through release. You'll apply user-centered design methods and systems to deliver intuitive, accessible experiences for our users. You’ll collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, drive project priorities, and ensure smooth communication across the team. This is a great role for someone who is passionate about empowering teachers and students and wants to work in a scrappy environment where they can have a lot of ownership.

Responsibilities & Duties

  • Partner with members of our product and design teams to take our UI from concept to completion.
  • Collaborate on the full UI/UX of our products from blue sky to UX specs and determine goals for new and evolving features.
  • Develop and conduct ad-hoc and recurring customer feedback/testing research with our pilot program.
  • Study platform analytics to further understand consumer behavior.
  • Create actionable, improvement plans as a resultBe the advocate for UX best practices, and push to improve UX design workflow processes.
  • Create wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, and design mockups to communicate design concepts and gather feedback.

Experience & Skills

  • 5-7 years of Product Design experience with a proven track record of building beautiful UI/UX and understanding customer’s needs
  • Solid experience using Figma and other design and prototyping tools.
  • Deep experience in interaction, prototyping, and complex design systems.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills; you can patiently, professionally and effectively communicate with a diverse and multicultural group of peers across time zones and continents.
  • Nimble, scrappy and adaptable.
  • Can roll with the punches and thrive in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environmentA positive, can-do attitude.
  • You’re not deterred by minor setbacks and are able to swiftly overcome ambiguity.
  • You believe feedback is a gift. You can thoughtfully share feedback to others as needed, and you can receive feedback and grow from it.
  • Will consistently cultivate a culture of inclusion where all team members feel a sense of belonging and can bring their authentic selves to work.
  • Strong proficiency in Google Workspace programs and Microsoft Office Suite.
$150,000 - $175,000 a year
Compensation is based on a number of relevant factors such as location, professional experience and related skill sets.
Benefits include:
- Flexible PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Top-notch medical, dental and vision coverage
- Company 401(k) plan
Background Check: Kira Learning will make a conditional job offer in line with local, state and federal laws, and a subsequent criminal, education, and employment history background check will then be issued.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: At Kira Learning, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Kira believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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Kira Learning is creating curriculum and learning tools that empower teachers and prepare students for a world in which technology and science play pivotal roles in everyone's lives. By way of our expert-backed content and intuitive, integrated teaching platform, Kira is intent on transforming the way computer science and artificial intelligence is taught and learned.
We are backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, and Primavera.
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