Senior Experience Designer

Summary

Join Age of Learning® as an Experience Designer and contribute to the creation of engaging educational experiences for children aged 3-6 on the ABCmouse platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including creative leadership, curriculum, research, and product teams. You will design and implement fun, interactive features and content, ensuring a balance between entertainment and learning. This role requires strong visual design skills, user empathy, and systems thinking. You will leverage data and feedback to iterate and improve the product, creating lasting learning outcomes for young children. The ideal candidate possesses a playful creative perspective and a strong understanding of UI/UX design principles.

Requirements

• Possess 5+ years of professional experience in Visual Design, Interaction Design, and/or Information Architecture, creating comprehensive UI/UX Design for modern high-quality, cross-platform applications that entertain and/or educate
• Figma, Adobe CC fluent
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Computer Science, Fine Arts, HCI or related fields; or equivalent experience with an emphasis on Visual, Experience, and Product Design
• The ability to visually design playful interfaces that are intuitive and appealing for very young learners. Illustration and motion capabilities a huge plus
• Exceptional creative problem-solving skills with an adaptable, flexible mindset
• Strong collaborative skills with the ability to receive and give constructive feedback as well as strong interpersonal communication skills to work independently
• Strong multi-tasking skills with the ability to change priorities as new opportunities arise
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills to both technical and non-technical team members
• Candidates must include a link to their portfolio or provide work samples as part of the application process. For each project, please describe the project, team, your role and contribution

Responsibilities

• Create, design, and own the implementation of fun, engaging features, content, events, and other product experiences that provides meaningful context to both parents and kids. This includes not only design thinking, but the visual assets that end up in the final design
• Be the voice of and advocate for meaningful design for users and drive user experience design through all design-thinking phases of development and product implementation
• Work closely with game design, art, animation, and a cross-functional teams on the UI/UX design implementation and iterate on our product experiences to engage, surprise, and delight users
• Collaborate with design research, data analytics, and other departments to evaluate, engage, retain, and activate our users and drive design decisions for efficient, effective product experiences that converts users to improve KPIs
• Assess and apply both qualitative and quantitative feedback to improve informed design through highly engaging experience tuning across the entire product evangelizing the best practices of experience design

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of contemporary children's media, especially children’s educational apps and learning games
• Motion design capabilities. Huge plus if you are able to design and animate using Rive and an even bigger plus if you understand state machines within Rive
• Experience using both qualitative and quantitative research findings and live data to drive product design decisions and iteration
• Capability of iterating divergently in low fidelity and refining solutions at high fidelity
• Experience designing cross-platform experiences (iOS, Android, Web)
• Familiarity with working in a scrum/kanban/agile environment

Benefits

• 90% of employee health and welfare benefits premiums & 65% of dependent benefits premiums
• A 401(k) program with employer match
• 15 paid vacation days (increases to 20 days on your 3rd anniversary), 12 observed national paid holidays, 9 sick days, and 16 paid volunteer hours per year
• Our flexible work culture means 2 or more days in the office (hybrid) or 100% fully remote options available for most positions