About Us:

Right now, even though STEM skills are increasingly important, over 60% of students in Kindergarten through 8th grade are not proficient in math at their own grade-level. The pandemic has increased the opportunity gap for our most vulnerable students. As a society, we need to bring together our best, most creative minds to tackle this critical problem and ensure all kids are successful in math and school and have the tools they need to reach their potential. This includes developing the most innovative learning technology using advanced data science in a way that inspires students and empowers teachers. Come help us make a difference at DreamBox Learning.

We’re passionate about our mission to radically transform the way the world learns. Today, our Intelligent Adaptive Learning platform – with its rigorous math curriculum and game-based environment – is helping 5 million kids and over 150,000 educators improve math achievement and build a love of math at the same time. In the wake of COVID-19, and the broad range of learning experiences: in-person, all virtual and hybrid models, we are uniquely positioned to bring our best-in-class adaptive learning platform to more students and provide Educators and Parents with insights into their student’s learning.

About the Role:

As a User Experience Designer at DreamBox Learning, you will work with a team of Artists, Curriculum Designers (teachers), Software Engineers, Product Management, and more to create engaging and interactive “virtual tools” that teach math to millions of students from Kindergarten to 8th grade. This process involves working with the team to gain a deep understanding of the lesson objectives and turning complex math concepts into beautiful, easy-to-use, and intuitive experiences that work for all ages.

As a UX/UI Designer, you will help to evolve our web-based admin and consumer interface across desktop, tablet, and mobile browsers. You’ll need experience creating consistent, clean and innovative designs that focus on user experience, customer usability, and the presentation of data with insights. This product-focused role will concentrate on the student experience in middle school content. This role will report to our UX Design Manager in Bellevue, WA.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Working on the architecture, design, and support of “virtual tools”. Supporting the asset creation of lesson assets when needed
• Usability and Interaction Design: This is a designer position, but with a particular skillset of usability, interactions, and flow

In your first month, you will:

• Attend scrum team stand-ups to get familiar with how our product and development teams groom and cost work
• Schedule 1:1s to introduce yourself and understand how design can partner with members across our Learning, Technology, Curriculum & Product teams
• Sit in on usability studies with Parents and Learning Guardians to understand how DreamBox can help support during distance learning
• Go through our student experience to understand how DreamBox adapts to each student and walk through your findings with the design team

In your first 3 months, you will:

• Apply our current styleguide to create wireframes, clickable prototypes, and visuals mockups for projects like new reports for admins, updates to our parent dashboard, and demystifying our math curriculum
• Partner with user research to collect quantitative and qualitative data to design a report showing how DreamBox aligns with my state standards
• Attend stand-ups as the sole UX rep, actively participate in bug bashes, and identify bugs before they release to production

In your first 6 months, you will:

• Join or champion one hack-week project from start to finish and present your final product to the whole company
• Work with user research to identify themes and opportunities based our NPS and product feedback to inform our product roadmap
• Reflect on mid-year performance with your manager and identify areas of growth to turn those into smart goals

About You:

• 3+ years of professional experience designing complex, data-driven desktop and mobile applications with tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, and Invision
• Experience working in a product-focused role
• Proficient with design tools such as the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.), Sketch, or Figma
• Experience with Animate/Flash, HTML5
• Familiar with game-design principles, particularly with respect to user engagement
• Familiar with front-end web development (HTML, JavaScript and CSS) – at a minimum, you will understand web constraints
• Proficient in early-process techniques such as sketching, wireframing and flowcharts
• Proficient in creating highly interactive and engaging prototypes. This could be through coding (e.g. HTML/JS/CSS) or prototyping software such as Invision, Sketch, Axure, etc.
• Strong ability to incorporate purposeful animations to support engagement and understanding of interactions
• The ability to communicate cross-team the importance of user experience, interaction, visual and graphic design with rapid iterations of wireframes and clickable prototypes
• Self-starter familiar with front-end web development (HTML, JavaScript and CSS) – at a minimum, you will understand web constraints and style guides
• Experience with Scrum and Agile methodologies
• Strong skills in quickly mocking up ideas and clearly presenting complex information simply
• Preference given for candidates with experience creating online games and mobile interfaces and/or consumer or entertainment brand experience
• Understanding of special considerations in designing for kids (button size, attention span, reading level, instructions, comprehension, etc.)
• Special requirements: Please include a link to your portfolio when applying.

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At DreamBox, we are hooked on celebrating diversity & providing an inclusive workplace and it shows throughout our product, brand, and teams. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Thanks for considering DreamBox Learning!