Staff Product Designer, Mobile Experience

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Our Mission and Opportunity
Early education is one of the greatest determinants of childhood outcomes, is a must for working families, and has a lasting social and economic impact. Brightwheel’s vision is to enable high quality early education for every child — by giving teachers meaningfully more time with students each day, engaging parents in the development of their kids, and supporting the small businesses that make up the backbone of the $175 billion early education market. Brightwheel is the most loved technology brand in early education globally, trusted by thousands of educators and millions of families.

Our Team
We are a fully remote team with employees across every time zone in the US. Our team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. Our exceptional investor group includes Addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GGV Capital, Lowercase Capital, Emerson Collective, and Mark Cuban. 

We believe that everyone—from our employees to the students, teachers, and administrators we serve— should be given the opportunity to learn and thrive, whatever their background may be. We celebrate diversity in all forms because it allows our team and the communities we serve to reach their full potential and do their best work. From decision making, to how we operate, we ground ourselves in our Leadership Principles every day. 

Who you are
Brightwheel is seeking a Staff Product Designer, Mobile to drive work across iOS and Android. You will play a critical leadership role in the strategy and execution of our mobile vision working on an embedded cross-functional product team with product managers, engineers, and designers to build beautiful, easy to use products for teachers and families across the globe. You bring a strong understanding of design principles and best practices across a variety of project types. 

What you’ll do

  • Lead the end-to-end design process for our mobile experience across iOS and Android platforms.
  • Design end-to-end from wireframes, mid-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes.
  • Develop and build upon a mobile design language that operates in concert with our brightwheel web experiences.
  • Conduct user research, usability testing, and gather feedback to iteratively improve the user experience and validate design solutions.
  • Comfortable with defining and re-designing the information architecture of a mobile application.
  • Maintain design consistency across the product, contributing to design systems and guidelines.
  • Strong attention to detail while keeping an eye on the big picture. 
  • Develop north star vision for work, take projects 0-1.

    • Qualifications, Skills, & Abilities

  • 6+ years experience designing successful mobile apps, with examples of end-to-end mobile product design.
  • Deep Experience with Apple HIG and Google Material Design.
  • A highly collaborative approach to working with engineering and product teams. Constantly improving and open to feedback through collaboration.
  • High quality bar: This role will be a tireless advocate for our customers’ mobile experience with brightwheel. You should be able to demonstrate how you’ve maintained design quality and accessibility across screen sizes, while shipping iteratively to deliver customer value early and often.
  • Ability to work in a dynamic environment — balancing rigor and scrappiness. You have a strong bias for action and focus on impact.
  • Experience creating and working with an evolving mobile design system.
  • A passion for improving the world through education.
    • Brightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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