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Sr Product Designer - Contract 🔥


Background

At GoSchoolBox, we're passionate about transforming education by creating an interoperable platform that provides transformative insights for school district leaders and communities. Our goal is to enable school districts and tutoring vendors to launch, manage, and synthesize outcomes at scale, bringing accountability and refined insights to Tier 2 / Tier 3 activities that help district leaders understand their return on instruction. This, in turn, allows district leaders to identify the most impactful programs that drive progress against the outcomes that matter most to them.

Our multifaceted platform balances the logistical overhead of launching and managing tutoring at scale, gathering and aggregating tutoring activities facilitated on and external to GoSchoolBox, and synthesizing insights in a reporting system that gracefully handles data sources of varied fidelity. The GoSchoolBox user experience must cater to the needs of K-12 students by providing easy access to all their tutoring resources while enabling tutoring program administrators to scale and manage high-touch learning services to tens of thousands of students at individual school districts in various formats. With these activities centralized, district administrators can then seamlessly integrate data connectors to pull in any and all outcomes data they wish to monitor progress against, all in one place.

Job Description

We are looking for a Contract Senior Product Designer to rapidly produce designs for the next major iteration of our product landscape, which will touch on the following key workflows:

  • School district-centered data analysis visualizations and dashboard experience, with an emphasis on presenting reports strategically to weave a narrative of accountability to providers to district leaders via the GoSchoolBox product.

  • Data integrations and marketplace for districts to engage with tutoring vendors and create seamless data connector workflows, with clear segmentation on how various ed-tech apps can play an integral role in the platform.

  • Refinements to our Tutoring Management Service for our partner vendors to launch and manage new tutoring programs at scale

  • Improvements to our in-person session attendance tracking capabilities and simplify students’ resource access and discovery experience on GoSchoolBox.

We expect that you will come prepared with the requisite empathy, insights, and best practices for designing a platform with componentized elements that can be plugged and played in extensive ways to accomplish various visualization outcomes and forms in which certain educational assessment formats can be placed together to derive Return on Instruction in a simplified way. 

You must have a proficient understanding of user experience around scheduling, learning management systems, data products, and data visualization to truly understand the business needs and personas of our customers.

This is a 20 hours a week contract with the potential to expand to a full-time opportunity.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Contract Senior Product Designer with school district-centered data visualization and dashboard experience to help us deliver exciting new features and improve usability in our tutoring management and learning analytics platform.

  • Rapidly produce UX designs using wireframes, process flows, graphic and visual design, sitemaps, prototypes, and storyboards

  • Can take user requirements and high-level guidance from product management and engineering to produce end-user experience flows in a timely fashion and with transparent estimates

  • Create design documentation, including user personas, user stories, and design specifications

  • Can maintain a design resource that can serve as a true north for our product experience, that can be iterated on in parts and over time based on user feedback and changing business needs

  • Can intelligibly evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product and engineering stakeholders and provide feedback informed by nuanced insights that are relevant to the specific types of product experiences we aim to deliver for our customers (i.e. the aforementioned data integrations, analytics visualizations, and tutoring management systems workflows)

  • Capable of converting design requirements into written-out product requirements that are clarification ready for engineering team members to execute on

  • Design user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets - this is all about data visualization and information management experience

  • Communicate with product leaders and engineering stakeholders in the company to understand user needs and design solutions that best meet business requirements

  • Contribute to the design and build of a scalable component library to ensure front-end development cohesion and consistency

  • Design with form and function for how product experiences will be flexible between desktop and mobile client experiences

  • Create accessibility guidelines, apply, and test accessibility requirements as part of the design process

  • Ensure that the user interface is visually appealing, intuitive, and consistent with best practices in user interface design, although insight on optimal user experience structure will be the more important focus for this role

Requirements

  • Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation, and the impact that your work will have on education by realizing the best iteration of GoSchoolBox’s product experience for all stakeholders.

  • Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design.

  • Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.

  • Three or more years of UI/UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing learning management systems and learning analytics reports and dashboards.

  • Expertise in standard UX software such as Figma, Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer, and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.

  • Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions and a deep understanding of responsive design.

  • Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.

  • Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.

  • Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.

  • A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.

  • Ability to work effectively in a remote team setting, including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.

  • Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.

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