Product Designer - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Ready Education, Inc.

Description

The Ready Vision

At Ready Education, we are deeply committed to improving student success and college graduation rates worldwide by crafting digital experiences that build community and increase student engagement.

We are a global, enterprise SaaS company with 725+ campus partners and 7M+ students in 25 countries actively using our platform.

We are a global, remote-first team.

Ready is growing rapidly, both organically and inorganically, and has successfully completed four acquisitions in the past year. We have a diverse and world class team poised for our next phase of rapid growth.


What You'll Do

As the Product Designer on the User Experience and Product Design team, you will directly impact the vision and mission of helping students succeed by creating user-centered experiences across Ready Education's portfolio of products.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with product managers, software developers, other designers, users, and business stakeholders to design exceptional user experiences
• Use a variety of methods to communicate and iterate on designs, including sketches, information architecture maps, process and interaction flows, user task analysis, wireframes, storyboards, visual design mockups, and high fidelity prototypes
• Work with a crossfunctional agile team by taking part in Scrums, Sprint Planning and other collaborative team rituals
• Ensure the technical feasibility of designs and guide the interactive design of the UI through the development process
• Oversee validation testing of designs and ideas
• Standardize UI components and contribute to development of Ready Education's component library
• Continuously improve the product design and development process, incorporating lessons learned and best practices
• Exhibit a passion for creating great user experiences and a mentality of 'users first'

What We're Looking For

• 3 years or more of experience as a product designer or UX/UI designer working on web and native mobile app products
• Knowledge of Design Systems and their role in building products
• Have a usercentric approach to problemsolving and user testing, with experience conducting user research and voice of the customer activities to understand the needs of users and to verify designs
• Experienced with design tools like Figma and Sketch
• Experience working on a crossfunctional, agile team
• Online portfolio showcasing published digital products and interactive design projects
• Fluent in English

Added Plus

• Experience working with (B2B/ B2B2C) SaaS Product Design
• Experience in a high growth, fastpaced, startup environment
• Knowledge of accessibility design principles, emerging standards, and evaluation tools

Life at Ready

_The values we live by at Ready Education_

Accomplish More As a Team - our team here at Ready is made up of passionate, hardworking people who support, care for, and challenge each other to achieve wins together.

We learn from each other and embrace creative tension to ensure the best idea wins. We collaborate to solve problems together.

In this role, you will work closely with the Product & Engineering team on the technical components, as well as the Customer Success team on the customer experience.

Have a Learning Mentality - we are looking for intellectually curious people who never stop learning and growing and who embrace change, which is essential at a constantly evolving tech company.

You will continuously push yourself to improve and evolve.

Move Fast and Innovate - to be successful at Ready, you will need to be self-motivated and able to work autonomously.

You will need to have excellent judgement and decision making skills to solve problems and move forward quickly.

**_
What you can expect from us_**- Training opportunities with our chosen providers

• Time available during working hours to learn and develop
• A friendly environment where your thoughts and ideas will be welcomed
• Company pension;
• Company laptop and peripherals;
• An international environment with experience coworkers who help you move

on;

• A lot of room for personal development and for taking your own initiatives to

be as successful as possible in this role;

• Remote working environment with the option of attendance in our cozy office

in the lively knowledge quarter area of Liverpool;

• Thursday afternoons social gathering
• Ready Education is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer._
• Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,_

- color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age,_
- marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status._

• Shoutout to all recruitment agencies trying to offer their services. Thank you for

understanding that we can hold our own. We've got this, so please move on and leave
us to our job.