Product Designer, sofatutor
Online tutor platform
Job no longer available
Online tutor platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To support young people throughout the world with the best learning content – on a unique platform.
Role
Who you are
- You have already gained experience as a Product Designer and you were part of managing product decisions and conceptualizing innovative ideas to bring the product forward? You are great at translating ideas, concepts and research insights into design solutions that communicate product value and address students problems in an effective and engaging way? Then this might be the perfect job for you! These are further requirements of the position:
- You are a pragmatic and rapid-prototype oriented designer that always aims to understand the target audience as well as possible to create amazing experiences for both elementary school and middle school students
- You have knowledge in testing existing hypotheses, creation of customer journey maps, user flows, and wireframes
- Experience or knowledge of gamification applied to the development of solutions to problems of students as a target group is a plus
- Creativity, strong communication abilities (visual and non-visual) and confident aesthetic sensibilities
- Mastery with Figma to create wireframes, interactive prototypes and good quality designs. Protopie expertise is a plus
- Degree in graphic design, communication design, game design or a related field
- Do all or most of these points apply to you and do the possibilities of digital learning excite you as much as us? Then you are the perfect candidate for us and we look forward to your application – even if you cannot meet all of our requirements yet!
What the job involves
- As Product Designer you will focus on our core Learner Product that helps pupils from elementary through high school. You will work within a cross-functional scrum team consisting of a Product Manager, a User Researcher, another Designer and Developers, to find creative solutions that bring value to customers and the company, taking into account both student needs and business objectives. These are your specific tasks:
- You will work closely with the Product Manager focused on the core learner experience addressing: Learning Use Cases & Features; Content Access & Learning Platform; and Gamification & Engagement
- At the same time you will work side by side with a designer and researcher exploring product problems, developing design solutions that solve those problems and implementing changes based on user’s feedback
- You will create rapid, low-fidelity prototypes to test and validate concepts for designing a consistent and engaging user interface for the platform and its products thus making the user experience effective, efficient and, of course, enjoyable
- In this way you will be responsible for improving the learning path of thousands of students through our products and their features in activities such as exam preparation, assessment tests or learning summaries, among others
- You will also work with developers to deliver quality responsive designs in an agile environment and ensure that the designs comply with the visual standards that the product demands
Application process
- Please apply with a comprehensive application, including your salary expectations and your earliest possible starting date
Our take
All students flourish when they can learn at their own pace, but this can be difficult to achieve in a traditional classroom. This is what sofatutor is setting out to address with its online tuition platform.
The company offers students at school and university one-on-one online learning support in 15 subjects, ranging from Mathematics to Latin. The main draw for students is the platform's flexibility and its unique 12 minute lesson format. Compared to traditional private tuition, sofatutor is faster, more convenient and cheaper.
In the fiercely competitive online tuition space, sofatutor finds an edge over rivals such as Tutorfair and MyTutor with its innovative learning materials, interface and class formats. Its strong product has certainly cemented sofatutor in the space, as it looks to further grow its team and operations into the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2018
$3.5m
LATE VC
Aug 2014
$4.1m
SERIES C
Total funding: $7.6m
Company benefits
- Corporate benefits: Shopping platform with attractive offers from all areas of lie
- Future bens: Discounts for sustainable and future-oriented brands
- Mindsurance: Tools to strengthen mental health
- BVG: Berlin public transport or "Deutschlandticket" at a discounted price
- Swapfiets: Bicycle subscription for many German cities
- Fitness: Choose between FitX, Fitness First, or Urban Sports Club
Company HQ
Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Stephen Bayer
(Founder & MD)Is a founding member and chair of Edtech Founders Club. Is also an Initiator at Art Market 101 and iddb.school, a digital education initiative.
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