Visual Designer
DreamBox
Posted 4 years ago
About Us
STEM skills are increasingly important to our future workforce, yet more than 60% of students in kindergarten through 8th grade are not proficient in math within their own grade-level. 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 reaching their potential. This includes developing the most innovative learning technology that inspires students and empowers teachers.
At DreamBox, we’re passionate about our mission to radically transform the way the world learns. We believe all children can excel at learning, no matter where they start, where they live, or who they are. Today, our Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ platform – with its rigorous math curriculum and game-based environment – is helping 3 million kids and over 130,000 teachers improve math achievement and build a love of math at the same time. And as a rapidly growing tech company, we are just getting started. Come help us make a difference at DreamBox Learning.
You will work closely with our team to execute designs within an existing visual system as well as work to evolve the system over time. In addition to concept work, you will work to provide polished and dev-ready comps, you will translate user needs and feedback into innovative designs and communicate design thinking with product management and development teams. In this role, you will need to have recent and extensive working experience with complex, modern and feature-rich web applications.
To be considered, please have an online portfolio that demonstrates your experience.
What You'll Be Doing
- Work on the architecture, design, and support of digital products.
- Contribute to the overall Student Experience primarily through Visual Design of Lessons (both new and re-imagined), Visual Systems & Style Guides, and Learning Environments.
- Additionally, you will provide your design expertise to improve the Educator Experience – a web-based, SaaS Data Visualization tool.
- Work with the broader Art & UX Team to support improved visual execution across our entire portfolio.
- Adhere to and Contribute to the advancement of visual guidelines, templates, stylesheets, etc.
- Participate in User Feedback (e.g. usability studies) Sessions.
- Create and promote deep empathy with learners of all ages and abilities.
- 3-5 years of product design and/or game development experience.
- Experience working in a product-focused role.
About You
- 3-5 years of product design and/or game development experience.
- Experience working in a product-focused role.
- Experience creating and extending visual systems is required.
- Visual Concepting: 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.).
- Strong ability to incorporate purposeful animations to support engagement and understanding of interactions.
- Proficient with design tools such as the Adobe Creative Suite (Animate, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.).
- Experience with Flash-based games, HTML5.
- Proficient with prototyping software such as Invision, Axure, etc.
- Familiar with front-end web development (HTML, JavaScript and CSS) – at a minimum, you will understand web constraints.
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!