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Salary: USD 111,700 - 122,900 / annual
DreamBox Learning, part of Mystery Science, is seeking a Product Designer to join their team. You will focus on interaction design, data visualization, and user engagement for K-12 educational products. Working directly with Research, Product, Engineering, Art, and Curriculum teams, you will translate complex educational concepts into sophisticated, compelling user experiences that drive student learning and delight.
In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional partners to solve design problems, understand business goals, and explore innovative design approaches tailored to your user base. You'll execute design work within an embedded Agile workflow, completing assigned Jira tasks within sprint cycles. You will engage with the Design team in building and reviewing interactive prototypes, wireframes, and other design artifacts that demonstrate and document functionality.
You will have the ability to drive empathy and delight by partnering with internal stakeholders to deliver new and reimagined features. An ideal candidate provides streamlined solutions to complex problems, weighs business goals against user needs, and continuously explores innovative design approaches that lead to joy and learning for students.
Key responsibilities include: collaborating with thought partners to solve problems and explore innovative design approaches; executing design work in Agile sprints; engaging in prototype building, review, and critique with design peers; and clearly articulating and defending design thinking while maintaining flexibility in the design process.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Proven expertise in developing creative, intuitive, and engaging experiences, with a strong portfolio showcasing relevant work
- Solid design approach encompassing product strategy, user research, feature validation, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, and visual/UI design
- Proficiency creating interactive prototypes, micro-animations, wireframes, and mockups using industry-leading design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, etc.)
- Strong verbal and written communication with precision, clarity, candor, and respect
- Ability to clearly articulate and defend design thinking while maintaining flexibility in the design process
- Collaboration and engagement in thoughtful critique with design peers
- Minimum 3–5 years working in SaaS application design in an Agile development environment (depending on experience level)
- Prior experience designing in game development or ed-tech space is a strong plus
- Legal right to work in the United States
