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Join the Amplify team as an Associate UX/UI Designer, where you will craft meaningful product experiences for K-12 education. Collaborate with diverse teams to enhance digital platforms and impact student learning.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include developing user stories, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs, collaborating with product teams, conducting user research, and designing intuitive content creation tools.

Skills: Required skills include end-to-end product design experience, strong visual design sensibility, expertise in Figma and Adobe CC, and collaboration with engineering teams.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include experience in education technology design, knowledge of accessibility, understanding of HTML/CSS/JS, and a formal education in a related field.

Location: This is a remote position based in the United States.

Compensation: $55000 - $89000 / Annually

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 15 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution. 

Associate UX/UI Designers at Amplify create delightful and meaningful product experiences that directly meet the needs of our young learners and their teachers inside and outside of the classroom, empower our internal authors to craft experiences for those audiences, and provide data visualizations that inform administrative decision-making. As a member of Amplify’s Platform design group you will partner with a diverse cross-functional product team of designers, product owners, developers, and curriculum experts to extend and improve Amplify’s digital platform.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Participate in problem solving and design to drive compelling user experiences and interfaces
• Develop user stories, wire frames, interaction flows, mockups, and quick prototypes as well as polished high fidelity designs
• Collaborate closely with your Product Management partners to define your features and contribute to the overall direction of your product
• Partner with your User Researchers on conducting user research and utilize findings to create initial designs and prototypes for iterative user testing with teachers and students
• Participate in collaborative discussions, including listening closely and providing honest, thoughtful feedback to colleagues
• Utilize strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal, and listening) 
• Prepare designs for review to your Design leadership, internal teams and key stakeholders
• Develop polished front end designs for handoff to developers, and engage developers in design QA feedback throughout implementation
• Design intuitive content creation tools that empower internal teams and end users to create high-quality instructional content 
• Contribute to the design of tools that help educators interpret learning data

Required Qualifications:

• 1+ years experience with end-to-end product design
• Strong visual design and typographic sensibility
• Interaction design expertise and experience collaborating with engineers
• Experience with using storytelling in stakeholder management
• Expertise with Figma, Adobe CC, Notion
• Experience designing responsive desktop and mobile experiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with digital product design in education technology or a related field
• Experience designing with Accessibility as a priority
• Understanding of how structured data or metadata informs UX
• Working knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS
• Demonstrated ability to gather and document user experience requirements
• Technical understanding to grasp complex AI technology quickly and help teams understand what's possible
• Experience working with and contributing to design systems and component libraries
• Experience with data visualization, visual design, or game design
• Experience designing features or digital tools that allow others to make their own content
• A formal education in Interaction Design, Communication Design, User Experience or related field
• Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of education

What we offer:

Salary is only one component of the Amplify Total Rewards package, which includes a 401(k) plan, competitive health insurance and mental health options, basic life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and access to best-in-class development programs. The gross salary range for this role is $55,000 - $89,000. This role is eligible to earn an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance.

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Amplify makes employment decisions based on qualifications and merit, and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.

Amplify is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the application or hiring process, please email [email protected].

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If you are selected for employment, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination, or submit to enhanced background screening, such as fingerprinting.

Amplify is an E-Verify participant.