Lead Product Designer

WHO WE ARE: MagicSchool is the premier generative AI platform for teachers. We're just over a year old, and more than 3M teachers from all over the world have joined our platform. Join a top team at a fast growing company that is working towards real social impact. Make an account and try us out at our website and connect with our passionate community on our Wall of Love.

Role Description: Join Magic School as the second design hire! As a Lead Product Designer, you'll shape our product experience with your strong UI/UX design skills and product management chops. You will take big ideas and make them into easily used, simple interfaces for teachers that integrate with their work & workflows. You will also continue to leverage our magical motif to improve our interface for our two main audiences - teachers/educators; and students - specifically, kids K-6 and 7-12.

Outcomes:

In this role, you will drive towards the following outcomes:

• Improve customer onboarding by 5%

  • Increase user engagement on our product

  • Measured through:

    • Retention / Usage  rate

    • Average session duration

    • CTR

    • Feedback

  • Achieves outcome through data analysis, A/B testing, heatmaps, user surveys

• Accelerate speed of engineering/product functions by 20%

  • Create wireframes/prototypes

  • Key metric: Design iteration time 

• Create design system

  • Clear through-line of teacher mission; feels approachable for student & makes educators feel honored

  • Common interactions with components, core model

  • “I will measure their success based on if teachers say that it has been changed to better make them feel appreciated”

  • Passion for and inspiration for design/whimsy/mascots

Competencies/Skills: 

To be successful in this role, you will be a:

• Strong communicator/cross-dept collaborator

  • Work closely with PM, engineering team, CEO, education team, sales team

• Curious learner & possess strong listening skills

  • Interpret people’s needs/desires without knowing necessarily what they’re looking at - be able to create visual product from imagination & ask the right questions

• UX/UI jack of all trades

  • Create customer facing product & design - particularly for students and teachers

  • Transform abstract ideas into valuable designs and establish UX patterns across the product

  • Utilize design tools to establish design system, UI style guide, component system

  • Accessibility & usability focused

  • User research with distinct user personas/groups

  • End user product experience

  • Wireframing/prototyping

• Ability to balance multiple projects/priorities at once

Desired Experience:

• Experience creating a design system

• Experience in visual design and using various design tools

• Alignment in mission

• Experience conducting user research with distinct user personas/groups

• Nice to have: EdTech/teacher lens

• Nice to have: Startup experience

• Nice to have: Tactical: Figma, Material UI

Application Notice: 

Notice: Priority Deadline and Review Start Date

Please note that applications for this position will be accepted until 10/7/24 - applications received after this date will be reviewed on an intermittent basis. While we encourage early submissions, all applications received by the priority deadline will receive equal consideration. Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to reviewing your application.

Our Benefits: We are proud to offer generous benefits, such as unlimited PTO, 100% employer covered health insurance, a wellness stipend, and vision/dental insurance.

Our Values:

• Educators are Magic:  Educators are the most important ingredient in the educational process - they are the magic, not the AI. Trust them, empower them, and put them at the center of leading change in service of students and families.

• Joy and Magic: Bring joy and magic into every learning experience - push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.

• Community:  Foster community that supports one another during a time of rapid technological change. Listen to them and serve their needs.

• Innovation:  The education system is outdated and in need of innovation and change - AI is an opportunity to bring equity, access, and serve the individual needs of students better than we ever have before.

• Responsibility: Put responsibility and safety at the forefront of the technological change that AI is bringing to education.

• Diversity: Diversity of thought, perspectives, and backgrounds helps us serve the wide audience of educators and students around the world.

• Excellence:  Educators and students deserve the best - and we strive for the highest quality in everything we do.