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Senior UX/UI Designer (Remote USA)

Merlyn Mind Remote
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January 7, 2023
Merlyn Mind
New York, New York
We are a group of highly creative individuals, experienced in a broad array of disciplines and who are passionate about our mission to help reframe education with innovative technologies. We have already launched Merlyn, the digital assistant for teachers, supported by privacy software, voice control, a smart remote and sophisticated hardware. Learn more about our mission, our vision, and our product at merlyn.org
You Are:
Incredibly creative with a striking sense of style. You are versatile and are able to develop multiple types of designs. You love typography. You are passionate about shades of color. You understand people, how they read, how they see information, how to move them and excite them. You want to influence your own development. You're looking for a company where you have the opportunity to wear many design hats and collaborate with creative and innovative people. You have both an artistic and a practical sense; you are creative and also organized. You are detail oriented.
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Your mission:
  • Conduct user requirements analysis, task analysis, conceptual modeling, information architecture design, interaction design, and usability testing
  • Design and specify user interfaces and information architecture using participatory and iterative design techniques, including observational studies, customer interviews, usability testing, and other forms of requirements discovery.
  • Produce user requirements specifications, personas, storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, design prototypes, and design specifications.
  • Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually.
  • Participate in product ideation and conceptual development.
  • Work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented.
  • Create visual design systems that effectively communicate product function, evoke emotion, and align with user needs.
  • Create clear, compelling data visualizations and illustrations that support product narrative.
  • Produce design specifications, wireframes, storyboards, and motion-based prototypes to show design intent and guide implementation.
  • Successfully communicate conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale, both verbally and visually.
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary team that includes creative leads, project management, business and brand strategists, and hardware and software developers.
  • Position is fully remote, with offices in Midtown, NYC and Irvine, CA
This is what you bring to the company:
  • 5+ years of user interface design experience.
  • Wildly creative and obsessively meticulous.
  • Exceptional design talents with stylistic breadth that demonstrates sensitivity to diverse subject matter from product interaction to software tools.
  • Strong knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology.
  • Strong project and people management skills. Must be able to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor.
  • Proficiency with design and prototyping software packages including AdobeCC and Figma.
  • Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of different technologies such as Android, CMS, Unity, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
  • Excellent communication and organization skills.
  • A passion for creating products that resonate emotionally with people.
  • Self-motivation, excellent communication, an open mind, the ability to thrive in multidisciplinary teams, and the skills to balance great design with short deadlines.
  • A love of collaboration and learning.
  • A fearless, can do, entrepreneurial and positive attitude.
  • Please include a link to your online portfolio that demonstrates a passion for design expression and product development and shows stylistic breadth, attention to detail and ability to balance beauty with usability.
Nice to have:
  • Degree in graphic design, interaction design, or related design discipline
  • Background in education, AI, digital experience design, and/or product design
  • 5+ years of user experience design for digital products and services. Familiarity with designing educational experiences a plus.
  • Experience with animation software and integration with Figma.
Merlyn Mind is a "Remote First" VC-backed AI EdTech startup that brings the latest advances in AI to Education to help improve the lives of teachers and ultimately the learning outcomes of their students. Our leadership team includes talents from IBM, Amazon, Facebook, Roku, Broadcom, HP, Allen Institute for AI, and more. We have come together to build on a unified product experience for an extremely urgent mission building a digital assistant for teachers, to untether teachers from the desk and help them with managing classroom technologies.
Merlyn Mind is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training. We make hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
Benefits:
401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Flexible schedule
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Parental leave
Tuition reimbursement
Vision insurance




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