Opportunity Education is hiring: Application Designer in Denver

Opportunity Education is seeking a skilled Application Designer to join our product development team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing interfaces and experiences for web and mobile applications used in schools across the US and Tanzania.

This role is for a consultant available 20 to 40 hours per week with the opportunity for full time employment. This role is fully remote, with preference for candidates based in Denver.

Responsibilities

• The Designer is responsible for the following activities and outcomes:
• Design user interfaces and responsive layouts for web apps and mobile apps used by educators and students in the US and Tanzania.
• Ground all design work in defining users’ intentions and solving users’ challenges.
• Define the user experiences and flows needed to make OE’s apps fun, helpful, and easy to use.
• Write and edit concise, intuitive headings, instructions and other necessary text throughout designs.
• Use Figma to provide all design assets and documentation needed to the engineering team during the development process.
• Think strategically about our products, and support the prioritization of product roadmaps based on customer needs and business goals.
• Collaborate with other designers and the marketing team to apply common components and branding for consistency across products.
• Incorporate customer feedback and application analytic data into designs and planning.
• Independently manage design timelines to meet deadlines and maintain pace with a team of experienced engineers.

Personal Characteristics

• The Opportunity Education team is distributed across various US and overseas locations. To work effectively, the Application Designer should display the following characteristics:
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong understanding of experience design and how it differs from interface design
• Commitment to a design style and library of components
• High standard of quality and ability to evaluate your work critically
• Commitment to timeliness and deadlines established by the organization
• Ability to work very efficiently on your own, and know when to reach out and collaborate
• Eagerness to develop and share new ideas

Ability and commitment to give and receive thoughtful and respectful feedback

Have strong beliefs, loosely held, about what is best for our products and our end users

Excellent communication skills

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience leading UI/UX design for an app or web tool
• Have a portfolio of design work that includes mobile and web apps
• Have a basic understanding of front-end development needed to communicate effectively with engineers
• Excellent with Figma
• Proficient with Jira and other collaboration tools
• Work well remotely, as well as communicate often with a small, collaborative team.
• Preferably based in the Denver area.

About Opportunity Education

Opportunity Education (OE) is a non-profit foundation focused on learning innovation in the US and overseas. With a fully remote team of 20+in the US, and an in-office team of 18 in Tanzania, we create resources, curriculum and tools needed by teachers to enable students to engage, own their learning process, and learn effectively from feedback.

OE was founded by entrepreneur philanthropist Joe Ricketts in 2005 and has served over 1 million students in 11 countries. For more about our work, visit us at www.opportunityeducation.org.