Senior Product Design Services

Summary

Join Newsela as a Senior-Level Product Design Contractor based in Mexico, Argentina, or Brazil! You will craft user-centric solutions for Newsela's platform across mobile, desktop, and tablet. Collaborate with a cross-functional team, from product managers to engineers, to define problems, explore solutions, and refine designs. Actively shape the product roadmap by advocating for user needs. This role requires 5+ years of experience in product design, proficiency in various design tools and methodologies, and a strong understanding of web and mobile technologies. Experience with educational products is a plus. Please note that this contract role is not eligible for company-sponsored benefits.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer working with complex user and business problems, understands feature requirements, and tech constraints, to create simple, engaging and scalable experiences
• Possess skill sets spanning from user research and testing to wireframes and user-flows to high fidelity and prototyping
• Demonstrate success in approaching patterns holistically and think about the larger experience
• Have a strong understanding of web and mobile-web platform technologies, and keep in mind accessibility
• Know when to use broad stroke sketches, use a design system, or when to apply pixel-perfect attention to detail
• Have experience working in Figma as both a design and prototyping tool
• Understand the value and have worked with a Design System or have collaborated with one
• Possess knowledge of Visual Design and attention to detail when it comes to pixel-perfect design, and documentation for hand-off to Engineers
• Understand the value of working cross-functionally and have a collaborative mindset

Responsibilities

• Craft user-centric solutions for Newsela’s platform (across mobile, desktop, and tablet)
• Work closely with product managers, researchers, data analysts, and engineers at each step of the process to find the right problems to tackle, explore ideas for how to solve it and then refine it into a coherent solution and design strategy
• Play an active role in shaping the roadmap by understanding and advocating for the needs of our users
• Skillfully balance multiple projects to deliver materials on time and within scope, and know how to source input for stakeholders across the company to align with business goals and overall brand guidelines
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, UX Research, Data, Content, and Marketing to define problems, align on solutions, and ensure feasibility; through workshops to coordinate on process to soliciting feedback at all stages of the product life cycle

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience with Educational products or in education in general