We are looking for a Product Design Manager who can balance the
responsibilities of leading a team while also rolling up his/her sleeves to
deliver delightful, visually exciting and seamless user experiences for our
students!
**In this role, you’ll get to:**
* Provide guidance and leadership to assist in making decisions, experimentation and successfully launching features.
* Make the team stronger, both through direct mentorship and leading by example.
* Ensure work across the team is of the highest quality and the implementation accurately reflects the product vision.
* Partner with our product, engineering, and marketing teams to drive our product strategy, product development and the culture around how we build products quickly and effectively
* Help craft and evolve our visual design language to continuously synchronize UI/UX with the highly dynamic tastes and preferences of our primary demographics - high school and college students
* Provide the thought leadership to develop the right product strategy
* Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes; knowing when to apply pixel-perfect attention to detail, and when to make low-fi sketches and prototypes
* Work within and lead from positions of ambiguity
* Redesign a full student dashboard experience, incorporating aspects of gamification, social proofing, and conversion touchpoints
**You’ll bring:**
* 7+ years experience working on a large scale, multi-modal B2C consumer product (web, mobile, tablet)
* 3+ years experience in managing a small team 2-3 designers
* Experience with industry standard design tools; Figma, Sketch, InVision, Framer, Mural, Keynote
* Experience articulating, negotiating, and refining designs with cross functional teams
* Compelling portfolio demonstrating strong visual skills as well as deep UX intuition
* Familiarity with orchestrating, conducting, and analyzing user research
* Familiarity with funnel metrics, key KPIs and their usage in data-informed design
* Outstanding organization, prioritization and documentation skills
* Excellent communication skills; able to drive initiatives with clarity and buy-in from team members
* An entrepreneurial spirit and results-oriented style is a plus
**You’ll become:**
* Passionate about building incredible consumer products
* Highly adaptable and have a flexible mindset supported by strong fundamental design skills and intuition
* Comfortable with ambiguity: if you don’t have all the details, you’re comfortable moving forward and facing the uncertain because risk and change motivate you to evolve and innovate.
* Goal oriented: you combine vision, mission, and strategy into a cohesive outcome and are comfortable setting stretch goals for you and your team.
* A mix of hands-on collaborative leadership ability, analytical / problem-solving skills, entrepreneurial can-do spirit, and grit.
**Benefits and perks:**
* Work from home, or wherever. We’re remote-first!
* Fun, creative and fast-paced working environment
* Competitive salary with a significant upside in equity
* Health + dental + vision coverage offered for both employees and their dependents
* 401k plan
* Flexible PTO, paid holiday, and leave policies, including paid parental leave for new parents - We want you to take time to relax, recharge, and reset
* Tons of opportunities for advancement
The base salary range for this position is $135,000- $160,000 annually. Please
note that individual total compensation for this position will be determined
at the Company's sole discretion and may vary based on several factors,
including but not limited to, location, skill level, years and depth of
relevant experience, qualifications and other business considerations.
Numerade focuses on Education Technology. Their company has offices in Los
Angeles. They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees.
You can view their website at <https://www.numerade.com> or find them on
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/numerade/).
