Promethean is hiringUX Product Designer
Posted 9mo ago
At Promethean...
We're on a mission to transform the way people learn and collaborate around the world. For over 25 years, we've been empowering educators, innovators, and business leaders with our award-winning interactive displays and software solutions that transform learning and workspaces into connected, creative environments.
Our company is rooted in our values, igniting a culture that fosters collaboration and innovation, as well as promoting an inclusive environment. As a global leader in edtech, we are also passionate about four key areas where we can make a difference: growing access to technology for underserved communities, encouraging our employees to take an active role in improving our world, promoting diversity and inclusion, and reducing our carbon footprint. Discover more about our corporate social responsibility initiatives.
As a member of #TeamPromethean, you'll have the opportunity to change lives with technology and directly impact education and the workplace for countless people every day. If you're passionate about education, collaboration, and making a positive global impact, we want to hear from you. Join us on our mission to transform the world, one student, one teacher, and one community at a time.
About Promethean
Collaborative discovery is at the heart of the learning experience. With more than two decades helping people learn and grow together, Promethean is a true partner for educators, innovators, and business leaders. Our award-winning interactive displays and lesson delivery solutions transform learning and workspaces into creative, connected environments to foster collective success.
About the team
Promethean’s UX Design team works across a variety of products in our portfolio of hardware and software offerings, including our large touch screen panels, accessory hardware, teaching apps, lesson delivery tools, administrative applications and web experiences.We are creating the next generation of classroom technology that will inspire educators, students, and innovators alike. At Promethean, product designers are empowered and supported by the entire organization to explore and ideate freely. We are deeply immersed in the creation of the product vision and are trusted to use our skills, experience, and instincts. Our design process is respected, and we are given the resources to truly do our jobs well. We are an impact-oriented, close-knit, hyphen-loving team that values curiosity, exploration, crazy ideas, ego-free collaboration, flexibility, autonomy, and humor.
About the role
As a UX Product Designer, you are a key member of a close-knit design team. You partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and other stakeholders throughout our organization to learn, ideate, create, and implement design solutions. You will be working on our Promethean web experiences including the signed in experiences for both teachers and IT administrators as well as web-based administrative tools.
The ideal candidate has a strong mix of UX and visual design chops, allowing them to work on varying projects requiring different skillsets. You will have experience with design systems, information architecture, prototyping, UX best practices based on UCD (user-centered design), delivering in layers of fidelity, and conducting and interpreting qualitative and quantitative user research to inform design decisions.
You will possess a strong ability to communicate across teams to connect dots between products. You provide and receive feedback with ease, and you share your work often and openly because you understand that working collaboratively is vital for producing cohesive and aligned products and experiences.
As a UX Product Designer Web you will...
- Collaborate with partners across research, product, engineering, and customer support to understand our user’s needs, and design solutions to address them.
- Create product flows and user journeys to understand a user’s path and experience while using our products.
- Sketch, wireframe and prototype quickly to vet ideas and obtain feedback
- Design modern, highly intuitive experiences for a wide array of devices and viewports.
- Deliver continuously, in layers of fidelity (sketches, wireframes, wireflows, functionality, prototypes, and high-fidelity design).
- Partner with research to test design work at critical junctures and use these findings to validate design decisions and adjust accordingly.
- Present UX and design work often and openly, seeking feedback from stakeholders and keeping wider audiences informed.
- Contribute to, and align design work with, our internal design system where possible.
- Provide constructive and thoughtful feedback that creates a safe space to freely ideate and collaborate.
- Be curious, open, positive, collaborative and empathetic.
- Think like an owner – scrappy, proactive, organized and detailed.
Responsibilities:
- 3-5 years of experience in visual and UX design, research methodologies, and product design.
- Experience designing web-based application interfaces.
- Strong visual eye and portfolio demonstrating modern and clean design (typography, color, grid, layout).
- Foundational knowledge and experience using UX principles and UCD (user-centered design) methodologies.
- Experience creating artifacts such as wireframes, user flows, functionality specs, prototypes and high-fidelity design.
- Ability to gather and use qualitative and quantitative data (as well as a strong gut instinct) to make informed design decisions and establish hypotheses.
- Experience working cross-functionally with product teams and engineers to create real products.
- Functional understanding of accessibility considerations in design.
- Understanding of viewports, responsive design and grid structure.
- Functional understanding of design systems.
- Ability and desire to communicate design vision clearly and fearlessly across all teams, early and often.
- Ability to receive and give constructive feedback in a positive manner.
- Proficiency with design programs such as Figma, Adobe CC, etc.
- Accessibility expertise and/or experience designing for those with disabilities (temporary or permanent)
- Experience designing for software purchasing and management processes.
- Experience creating motion design (micro-interaction and other) – tools, techniques and understanding of how motion enhances the UI, focuses attention, creates hierarchy, and provides important user feedback.
- Experience designing for touch screens.
- Industrial design experience.
- Experience with new technologies and how they integrate into products: voice controls, VR/AR/XR, etc.
Extra Credit
Base Range: $101,700 - $124,200 + Bonus Eligible
Promethean provides a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that offers the flexibility and security to thrive both inside and outside of work.
Our benefits include:
· Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
· Spending Accounts (FSA and HSA)
· Disability Programs
· 401(k) Retirement Plan with Matching
· Generous PTO and Holidays
· Parental Leave Programs with Child Care Subsidy
· Paid Volunteer Time Off
· Well-Being Programs (For example, company-wide health challenges)
· And more!
Promethean is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace. We realize that by creating teams rich in diverse thoughts and experiences, our people, company and customers are free to thrive. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity), age, marital status, disability, military or veteran status; or any other protected classifications or characteristics under applicable local laws. In addition, Promethean values privacy and the protection of personal information.
For information regarding personal information we collect and our use of such data please see our privacy policy: https://bit.ly/2I83hwP
Please contact recruiting@prometheanworld.com if you have an accessibility request at any point during the hiring process.
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