Role Description: Join Magic School as the first design hire! As the Lead Product Designer, you'll shape our product experience with your strong UI/UX design skills and product management chops. You will take big ideas and make them into easily used, simple interfaces for teachers that integrate with their work & workflows. You will also continue to leverage our magical motif to improve our interface for our two main audiences - teachers/educators; and students - specifically, kids K-6 and 7-12.
WHO WE ARE: MagicSchool is the premier generative AI platform for teachers. We're only 11 months old, and more than 1.9M teachers from all over the world have joined our platform. Join a top team at a fast growing company that is working towards real social impact. Make an account and try us out at https://www.magicschool.ai and connect with our passionate community on our wall of love at https://love.magicschool.ai.
Outcomes:
In this role, you will drive towards the following outcomes:
Improve customer onboarding by 5%
Increase user engagement on our product
Measured through:
Retention / Usage rate
Average session duration
CTR
Feedback
Achieves outcome through data analysis, A/B testing, heatmaps, user surveys
Accelerate speed of engineering/product functions by 20%
Create wireframes/prototypes
Key metric: Design iteration time
Create design system
Clear through-line of teacher mission; feels approachable for student & makes educators feel honored
Common interactions with components, core model
“I will measure their success based on if teachers say that it has been changed to better make them feel appreciated”
Passion for and inspiration for design/whimsy/mascots
Competencies/Skills:
To be successful in this role, you will be a:
Strong communicator/cross-dept collaborator
Work closely with PM, engineering team, CEO, education team, sales team
Curious learner & possess strong listening skills
Interpret people’s needs/desires without knowing necessarily what they’re looking at - be able to create visual product from imagination & ask the right questions
UX/UI jack of all trades
Create customer facing product & design - particularly for students and teachers
Transform abstract ideas into valuable designs and establish UX patterns across the product
Utilize design tools to establish design system, UI style guide, component system
Accessibility & usability focused
User research with distinct user personas/groups
End user product experience
Wireframing/prototyping
Ability to balance multiple projects/priorities at once
Desired Experience:
Experience creating a design system
Experience in visual design and using various design tools
Alignment in mission
Experience conducting user research with distinct user personas/groups
Nice to have: EdTech/teacher lens
Nice to have: Startup experience
Nice to have: Tactical: Figma, Material UI
Our values:
Educators are Magic: Educators are the most important ingredient in the educational process - they are the magic, not the AI. Trust them, empower them, and put them at the center of leading change in service of students and families.
Joy and Magic: Bring joy and magic into every learning experience - push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.
Community: Foster community that supports one another during a time of rapid technological change. Listen to them and serve their needs.
Innovation: The education system is outdated and in need of innovation and change - AI is an opportunity to bring equity, access, and serve the individual needs of students better than we ever have before.
Responsibility: Put responsibility and safety at the forefront of the technological change that AI is bringing to education.
Diversity: Diversity of thought, perspectives, and backgrounds helps us serve the wide audience of educators and students around the world.
Excellence: Educators and students deserve the best - and we strive for the highest quality in everything we do.
