Lead Product Designer

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%

• Accelerate speed of engineering/product functions by 20%

• Create design system

Competencies/Skills:

To be successful in this role, you will be a:

• Strong communicator/cross-dept collaborator

• Curious learner & possess strong listening skills

• UX/UI jack of all trades

• 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• Innovation: The education system is outdated and in need of innovation and change - AI is an opportunity to bring equity, access, and serve the individual needs of students better than we ever have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.