Principal UX Designer
Zearn Remote (🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America)
This role is responsible for leading the strategic design of the Educator app onboarding experience, transforming complex challenges into intuitive designs that drive teacher adoption and sustained engagement. This involves owning the end-to-end design strategy, partnering with Product Management, and conducting rigorous research to inform product direction.
Responsibilities
- Owning the end-to-end design strategy for high-leverage educator onboarding and engagement experiences
- Delivering complete, high-impact UX projects from initial research and strategy through final implementation
- Partnering with Product Management leaders to clarify requirements from ambiguous business needs
- Working closely with Design Directors, Product Managers, and Engineers to identify the best product solutions and ensure they are executed at the highest quality possible
- Turning complexity into simplicity by distilling educational content, data insights, and multifaceted platform capabilities into intuitive UI and user flows
Requirements
- 10+ years as a professional UX Designer with demonstrated progression to senior individual contributor roles
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional quality and experience leading major end-to-end UX/Product design initiatives
- A proven track record of conducting user research, usability testing, and competitive analysis that directly informed and changed strategic product decisions
- Experience designing for educators, complex enterprise users, or other audiences who need to understand sophisticated systems quickly
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces and turn complexity into simple, intuitive user experiences
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
- Short- and long-term disability
- Life insurance
- 401K matching
- Parental leave
- A generous Holiday policy and a flexible PTO policy
Key Skills
About Zearn
Zearn is the nonprofit educational organization behind Zearn Math, the top-rated math learning platform used by 1 in 4 elementary school and more than 1 million middle school students nationwide. Zearn Math supports teachers with research-backed curriculum and digital lessons proven to double the learning gains of a typical year of instruction. Everything we do is driven by the belief that every kid is a math kid.
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