Principal Product Designer

As the Principal Product Designer of a new initiative at Bezos Academy, you will design educational products, experiences, and solutions for children and families. You are a hands-on, impact-driven visionary who will lead experience strategy and product design with a small team of founders.  Your work will combine digital experiences for families with analog activities for children. With a passion for design craft and a mission-driven mindset, you will expand access to early childhood development programs for families of all kinds.

You have a track record of designing end-to-end experiences that solve human problems.  You work resourcefully across platforms and mediums, using technology for real world impact despite constraints on time and resources. You have successfully led product discovery and shipped multiple consumer-facing products in collaboration with product managers and engineering. You are a builder with a customer mindset, preferring working demos over perfect plans. You are adept at working from scratch, resolving ambiguity, and iterating your way to customer love. You have led all phases of the product/UX design process, including discovery, strategy, experience design, and visual design. You know exceptional work when you see it and you sow this passion in others.

You will find yourself in a fast-paced, start-up environment where you will focus on inventing, measuring, and iterating for children. You are equally motivated by great products and great impact, deeply inspired by our mission to expand access to early childhood education in under-resourced communities.

LOCATION

• Seattle, WA
• Relocation support is available for those willing to relocate to Seattle, WA

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, salaried position.
• The full salary range for this position in Seattle, WA, is $177,000 - $292,000 per year. The upper third of the salary range is typically reserved for employees who have been in the role for multiple years and have demonstrated strong performance over time. Starting salary will vary by qualifications and prior experience.
• This role includes 15 paid days of vacation, 4 days of paid personal time off, 7 paid days of sick (care) time, 9 paid holidays, 5 paid days off for an organization-wide winter break, and additional time off if required by applicable law. Benefits for this role include medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, a 401(k) plan with a 4% employer contribution match, paid parental leave, an employer-matched flexible spending account for dependent care, and more. Please see here for details.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Ten or more years in experience and product design, with a strong portfolio of digital products that relate to activity in the physical world
• Track record of delivering user-centered product designs, from research and initial concept through final implementation, continual improvement and scale
• Expertise in Figma or other design and prototyping tools, as well as UX and visual design standards, front end design systems and component libraries
• Experience leading all phases of experience design, including user research, information architecture, persona and journey mapping, wireframes, prototypes, visual / UI design, style guides, usability, accessibility, and measurement
• Experience collaborating closely with product, engineering, and other partners to solve customer needs while making critical trade-off decisions (e.g., competing customer goals, constraints)
• Superior communication and analytical skills, including strong ability to clarify and solve ambiguous problems, and think strategically to contribute to product strategy discussions
• Demonstrated personal commitment to designing products that work for people of all kinds, with effective diversity, equity, and inclusion outcomes
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience designing products for children and families in education, ecommerce, publishing, or game design
• Passion for early childhood education and incorporating child development principles in design
• Experience leading a product design function or managing a team of design resources while also working hands-on as a player-coach
• Experience building design systems to enable efficient development and scale
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence people and teams at all levels of the organization
• Experience creating accessible, responsive designs that allow customers to seamlessly transition devices, activities, or modes
• Experience leading product discovery and research with a demographically and economically diverse consumer audience.
• Reading and writing fluency in Spanish
• Proven ability to work with urgency and prioritize ruthlessly in a fast-paced environment

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