Picture it. You are the creative lead on a team of enthusiastic, dynamic developers, working in a cool, trendy location in downtown Minneapolis, building the most widely used products in the education market, that positively impact millions of students and teachers around the world. This can be you with a career move to Renaissance Learning.
If you are passionate about creating usable and beautiful software, have experience managing multiple projects and guiding the implementation of usability techniques throughout the project lifecycle, and are interested in helping to lead a team that is truly influencing K-12 education throughout the nation and around the globe, we want to talk to you!
Core Responsibilities:
Lead and Manage a team of 10+ designers working on Agile Scrum teams
Establish overall company standards for design and design process, serving as the chief creative for Renaissance
Participate in the brainstorming of and creation of concepts for best-in-class user experiences
Serve as the Designer and UX lead for our Minneapolis Scrum teams, playing a key role in designing the software built by those teams
Translate abstract concepts into simple, elegant, and innovative designs expressed in sketches, diagrams, and rapid prototypes for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices
Design the architecture, navigation, user flows, information and interaction solutions that effectively and directly solve user needs
Work in close collaboration with the CTO and General Product Managers to create Renaissance’s style and approach to UX
Assist the Renaissance team in adopting and using Lean UX
Act as a tireless advocate for the user