Staff Product Designer, Quizlet

• 8+ years of experience designing consumer applications across responsive web and native platforms
• Proven track record of leading complex, ambiguous projects from discovery to delivery
• Expert-level craft in UI and interaction design for consumer applications
• Experience and comfort in owning product design projects from inception to completion
• Experience working closely with product management and engineering teams
• A strong track record as a player-coach with an interest in growing into or returning to design management

Desirable

• The Design organization at Quizlet is passionate about creating high-quality experiences that help people learn, study, and achieve their goals. Our team includes product designers, user researchers, and content designers
• As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll drive design strategy and execution for Quizlet’s Learn study mode across our web and native apps
• You’ll partner closely with other designers, PMs, engineers, user researchers, content designers, and other cross-functional partners to ensure that these experiences are useful, usable, delightful, and guide our students to the best study outcomes we can design
• You’ll lead both the discovery and definition phases of complex projects, partner with other designers working in related product spaces, and help us continue to build and reinforce a culture of quality and collaboration
• This position will begin as an individual contributor with plans to begin managing ~3 product designers in 6-12 months if successful
• Lead the discovery and definition phases of highly ambiguous problem spaces within and surrounding our Learn study mode
• Be involved in every step of the process including project prioritization and planning, conducting research, writing jobs to be done, mapping user flows, creating wireframes, prototyping, and designing high-fidelity UI across our website and native apps
• Use quantitative and qualitative insights to inform your designs, iterate rapidly, and optimize experiences
• Partner closely with product management, engineering, content design, marketing, and analytics to solve problems, manage trade-offs, and ultimately deliver high-quality experiences for our students and teachers
• Mentor and guide product designers through 1:1 collaboration, introducing frameworks, defining process, creating extensible patterns, and sharing insights
• Use presentation and storytelling skills to get feedback, explain your designs, and get people excited about them
• Push yourself and the team to raise the design bar at Quizlet through a culture of curiosity, feedback, and open communication