Staff Product Designer, Brightwheel
$161-218k
+ Equity
Online platform for early education management
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Online platform for early education management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$161-218k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve education for young children, given the vital importance of early education for later life.
Role
Who you are
- You bring a strong understanding of design principles and best practices across a variety of project types focussed on our education product. You thrive working on projects that are of the utmost importance to our users and that move the company forward
- You thrive working on projects that are of the utmost importance to our users and that move the company forward
- 6+ years of experience as a Product Designer
- 2+ years of mobile experience across iOS and Android
- A strong portfolio of case studies that demonstrate a successful track record of human-centered design solutions that address strategic business problems
- Experience designing end-to-end customer journeys from software to service
- Deep expertise in UI/UX craft; passion for visual design, interaction details, typography, design system and pixel perfect deliverables
- The ability to think long term towards a broader vision or step change, while being able to speak to scoping and sequencing to deliver iterative value
- Experience with user research methodologies and usability testing
- Experience shipping quality experiences across iOS, Android, and Web
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment — balancing rigor and scrappiness. You have a strong bias for action and focus on impact
- A highly collaborative approach to working with engineering and product teams
- A passion for improving the world through education
What the job involves
- Brightwheel is seeking a Staff Product Designer to drive work across iOS, Android, and web
- You'll work embedded in a cross-functional product team with product managers, engineers, and designers to build beautiful, easy to use products for teachers and families across the globe.
- Work with cross-functional partners in Product Management, Engineering, and Data Science to understand customer problems, key opportunities, and define both the long term UX vision and also short term releases that deliver customer value
- Advocate for great UX, inspiring your teams with a strong point of view about what’s possible and aspirational for your product area
- Take projects 0-1
- Speak clearly to tradeoffs and the “Why” behind design decisions in terms non-designers can understand and participate in
- Conduct user research, usability testing, and gather feedback to iteratively improve the user experience and validate design solutions
- You’ll drive team-wide impact through mentorship, fostering a culture of growth and collaboration
- Provide and seek feedback from other designers to always push the bar for quality
- Maintain design consistency across the product, contributing to our design system
- Partner with the marketing team to ensure our product design reflects and reinforces the brightwheel brand
Our take
Childcare and teaching is a profession fraught with pressures and paperwork and yet it remains relatively ill attended to by advances in tech and software. Brightwheel want to revolutionize this, focusing on facilitating the administrative and communicative relationship between schools, carers and parents or guardians.
As tech enters the classrooms there are various apps focusing on the education itself with fewer actually handling the communications for schools. Its platform helps increase parental and teacher engagement with students everyday, while helping small education businesses save money, time, and to grow.
Brightwheel is carving out a name for itself as a service valuable for its exciting and useful new updates. They were quick to adapt to school closures by offering distance learning capabilities and health testing. They also cater to childcare in lower-income areas with their freemium model. Since their $55 million funding round, if it remains on this course of steady, popular development and wide uptake, Brightwheel will likely achieve its goal of going public in a few years time.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$55m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$21m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.8m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Deliver Value for Customers
- Take Ownership
- Get Better Every Day
- Think Critically, Move Fast
- Dive Deep
- Trust, and Challenge
- Make it Happen
- Achieve Extraordinary Results
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Dave Vasen
(CEO)Dave started his career at Morgan Stanley, before spending a year at Cisco and 3 years as a Bain Consultant. He worked at Amazon for 2 years, and after taking on several Advisory roles he founded Brightwheel in 2014.
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