The Product Designer will create and improve user experiences through high-quality designs, collaborate with teams, and advocate for users' needs.
About Kira Learning
We live in a world where technology is rapidly changing the educational experiences of students and teachers everywhere, and we have the opportunity to shape how this change takes place. It is Kira Learning’s mission to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class teaching and learning accessible to everyone.
Kira is a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Andrew Ng’s AI Fund.
About this Role
We are looking for a highly motivated Product Designer to join the Kira team. This is an opportunity to become part of a small product team within a high-growth, high-impact company tackling the $32 billion education LMS space. You’ll iterate on features throughout the entire product lifecycle, from strategic discovery to high-fidelity prototypes. This person will serve as a strong advocate for users and set a high bar for crafting intuitive, accessible, and beautiful experiences. You’ll collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and ensure clear communication and alignment across the team.The ideal candidate is self-motivated, passionate about education and start-up life, and enthusiastic about AI. This person must be swift and nimble enough to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, and they must have impeccable written and verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities & Duties
- Design and ship high-quality products and improvements, from early concepts to high-fidelity prototypes and visuals
- Identify and understand our user types, their behaviors and the pain points of their user journeys
- Partner with product, engineering, and content in a highly collaborative, ego-free environment
- Contribute to and evolve our design system
- Evangelize UX/UI best practices and processes, helping maintain a high bar of standards
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional experience with a proven track record of building beautiful UI/UX and understanding customer’s needs
- A portfolio showcasing strong UX, UI, and interaction design skills, with a high bar for quality and craft
- A passion for turning complex problems into elegant and engaging user experiences
- Outstanding product design sensibility and craft – excelling at UX, visual design and interaction
- Self-motivated, and confident in independently leading end-to-end design work – creating concepts, defining requirements, documenting and assessing post-launch learnings
- Experience designing inclusively (ex. international, multi-language, accessible use cases)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills: you can clearly and concisely communicate with a diverse group of peers across time zones
- Nimble and adaptable. Can roll with the punches and thrive in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment
- A positive, can-do attitude. You’re not deterred by minor setbacks and are able to swiftly overcome ambiguity
Portfolio
- Provide a link to a portfolio with 2-3 real-world examples of customer-facing products/features and an outline of your process, challenges, and learnings.
- PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATIONS WITHOUT A PORTFOLIO WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED
- Include your password if required
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.
Top Skills
Communication Skills
Design System
Interaction Design
Prototyping
Ui
Ux
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