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Join Amplify as an Associate UX/UI Designer to create engaging digital experiences for K-12 students and educators, collaborating with a dynamic team to enhance their literacy programs.

Responsibilities: Develop wireframes, prototypes, and polished designs while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve user experiences in educational products.

Skills: Experience in end-to-end product design, strong visual design sensitivity, interaction design expertise, and proficiency in design tools like Figma and Adobe CC.

Qualifications: 1+ years of experience in digital product design with a BA in a related field; familiarity with research-driven design decisions and responsive design principles.

Location: Remote - United States, United States of America

Compensation: $35 - $45 / Hourly

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, as well as internal authors crafting experiences for those audiences. 

As a member of the Amplify Literacy Suites ELA design team you will partner with a diverse cross-functional product team of designers, product owners, interaction developers, and curriculum experts to build ELA’s 3rd Edition Curriculum.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Participate in problem solving and design to drive compelling user experiences and awesome digital lessons. 
• Develop concepts, wire frames, interaction flows, mockups, and quick prototypes as well as polished high fidelity designs for student-facing digital activities and resources
• Collaborate closely with your product, content and interactive developer partners to produce engaging activities and contribute to the overall direction of the ELA program
• Partner with your user researchers on conducting user research and utilize findings to create designs and rapid prototypes for iterative user testing with teachers and students
• Participate in collaborative discussions, including listening closely and providing honest, thoughtful feedback to team members
• Utilize strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal, and listening) 
• Prepare designs for review to design leadership, internal teams and key stakeholders
• Participate in design reviews and team meetings
• Develop polished front end designs for handoff to interaction developers, and engage ID’s (interaction developers) in design QA feedback throughout implementation

Required Qualifications:

• 1+ years experience with end-to-end product design with digital visual design, digital product development, or equivalent experience with a BA degree in related field or combination of education and experience
• Understanding of how qualitative research and data inform product and design decisions
• Strong visual design and typographic sensibility
• Interaction design expertise and experience collaborating with engineers
• Expertise with design tools (e.g. Figma, Adobe CC, Notion) and familiarity with prototyping tools to create interactive design concepts
• Experience designing responsive desktop and mobile experiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with digital product design in education technology or a related field
• Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of science education
• Experience designing with Accessibility as a priority
• Basic knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS to be able to speak with and iterate on solutions with developers
• Experience with Content Management Systems (CMSs)
• Experience with Agile processes
• Demonstrated ability to gather and document user experience requirements
• Experience with visual design, interactive motion design or games
• Any lived experience with teaching or tutoring students ages K-12
• A formal education in Interaction Design, Communication Design, User Experience or related field

Compensation:

The hourly rate range for this role is $35.00-$45.00.

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.