Key Responsibilities

• Develop the overall creative vision for learning products, integrating the Discovery Education brand while visually communicating the goals of the product.
• Work collaboratively with team members from the product, curriculum, editorial, analytics, design, and engineering.
• Develop all visual components for the UI including components, views and pages.
• Participate in user testing of your designs, developing initial user testing scripts and following up with recommendations based on user input.
• Manage and develop a consistent design language to guide the look and feel of the company’s portfolio of products, utilizing and contributing to the DE Design System.
• Present design solutions to internal stakeholders in ways that deepen their understanding of how the design solves the problem for the user at hand.

Requirements

• Mission-Driven: Passionate about Discovery Education's vision to transform teaching and learning, experience in education or ed-tech industry a plus
• Professional Experience: 5+ years’ experience in one or more of the following areas: interaction design, user interface design, web design, visual/graphic design.
• Knowledge & Skills: Experience turning complex problems into simple and engaging customer experiences. Comfort with an iterative design process that includes accepting and acting on feedback and constructive criticism. Familiarity designing for accessibility needs. Experience with Agile/Lean product development.
• Communication: Demonstrated collaboration, communication and presentation skills.
• Leadership: Demonstrate exceptional leadership; strong work ethic driven by a sense of urgency, organization skills, and ability to inspire others to act and fulfill Discovery Education’s mission
• Collaborative: Ability to work as part of a team in a fast-paced, high-energy environment. Team builder, not turf builder
• Hustle: The courage and confidence to work hard and with passion; committed to getting the job done; sustain effort in the face of adversity. Maintain consistency and focus over time with a positive “never give up” attitude
• Self-Motivation and Self-Starter: The ability to do what needs to be done without being micromanaged; ability to manage/prioritize multiple tasks, proactively manage numerous projects, and prioritize competing timelines; demonstrate a problem solving/ solution-oriented approach
• Learning Orientation: Always willing to learn something new, not rigid in beliefs or expectations
• Sense of Humor: Because we all need to laugh sometimes

Technical Skills Required:

• Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Figma or vector-based layout software
• InVision, Axure, Justinmind, or other interactive prototyping software
• Principal, Adobe Premiere or other animation software
• Jira, Confluence, ana, Basecamp or another ticketing / project management software
• Designing for children as well as adults a plus!
• Bachelor’s degree required and advanced degree’s preferred
• Legal right to work in the United States