Staff Product Designer, sofatutor
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Online tutor platform
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Online tutor platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
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
- Several years of experience in designing digital products (web and mobile), with responsibility for UX concepts, user flows, and interface design
- Experience in collaborating closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and stakeholders across discovery and delivery phases, and the ability to clearly communicate and justify design decisions
- Experience in developing new product features from problem definition through user journeys and interaction concepts to validated prototypes
- Experience in exploring solution spaces together with Product Management, developing multiple concept approaches, and evaluating them in a structured way
- Proven ability to translate complex platforms or feature sets into clear, intuitive, and easy-to-understand user experiences
- Strong sense for information architecture, feature structuring, and prioritization of user needs
- Experience in designing interactive and motivating user experiences that guide, activate, and retain users over time
- Strong skills in UX concepting, wireframing, high-fidelity design, and prototyping to develop and validate solutions
- Languages: Fluent in English, German is a plus
- Tools: Experience with modern design and prototyping tools (especially Figma)
Desirable
- Experience with personalized or AI-powered interfaces
- Experience with platform or product redesigns
- Experience with learning, children’s, or consumer products
- Experience with gamification or motivation design
What the job involves
- As a Staff Product Designer (gn), you take on a central role in evolving our core product and significantly shape the user experience of our learning platform across web and mobile.
- In doing so, you actively influence how millions of students learn digitally with sofatutor.
- You work closely with the Lead Product Manager, Staff Engineer, as well as Educational Leadership and Design Leadership, jointly driving the strategic development of our platform
- As an Individual Contributor, you take ownership of the redesign of our learning platform across web and mobile – with a focus on simple, intuitive, and motivating user experiences tailored to children aged 6 to 14. You will report directly to our VP of Content & Product Experience
- Together with your peers from Product, Education, and Engineering, you design adaptive and AI-powered learning features and user flows that effectively solve real student problems in an engaging way
- You collaborate closely with other designers and creatives on a project basis, actively contributing your experience to shared initiatives. You will also be in regular contact with our Team Lead for Illustration and Design
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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