Vice President, Product Design
EVERFI
EVERFI is an international technology company driving social impact through education to address the most challenging issues affecting society ranging from financial wellness to mental health to workplace conduct and other critical topics. Founded in 2008, EVERFI’s Impact-as-a-Service TM solution and digital educational content have reached more than 41 million learners globally. In 2020, the company was recognized as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company and was featured on Fortune Magazine’s Impact 20 List. The company was also named to the 2021 GSV EdTech 150, a list of the most transformative growth companies in digital learning. Some of America’s leading CEOs and venture capital firms are EVERFI investors including Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Twitter founder Evan Williams, as well as Advance, Rethink Education, Rethink Impact, The Rise Fund, and TPG Growth. To learn more about EVERFI and how you can #answerthecall please visit everfi.com or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter @EVERFI.
The Vice President of Design is responsible for the vision, execution and oversight of UX and design across EVERFI’s complete line of products. The Vice President promotes a design-first mindset across the organization and fosters design as a strategic capability, demonstrating how it transforms digital learning. In this capacity and in collaboration with Product leadership, the incumbent contributes to the definition of strategies for large, ambiguous product areas and guides their team through the execution of those strategies.
Responsibilities
- Create and drive EVERFI’s strategy for product design – align and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure the vision helps deliver on company goals
- Lead the cross-functional design team throughout the entirety of the design process- from brainstorming to front-end development collaboration
- Manage, develop and coach all designers and external resources; this includes managing appropriate resource allocations and relationships
- Champion the use of qualitative and quantitative data to discover and validate user needs and solutions to user problems
- Lead the creation and implementation of audience-specific design systems for our courses that result in visually unique but harmonious designs across our courses and platform experiences
- Manage product development dependencies and timelines, gather and evaluate stakeholder creative feedback and help decipher what goes forward into production
- Guarantee the overall quality of design output and its contribution to business objectives
- Build and maintain the product design roadmap and creative involvement in product development, determining timelines, outputs and workflows
- Proactively assess UX and design risks, raise flags, and resolve issues before they become problems
- Refine and own design philosophy, principles and guidelines, ensuring they are consistently applied to every product and experience
- Enforce iterative design thinking informed by user testing and research during each design phase.
- Collaborate with other Product leaders to maximize use of the organization’s component library when designing content experiences and interactions
- Advocate for the learner in all decisions within the product, engineering, and design teams
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
Skills, Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of experience and education
- 10 years of combined UX and design experience as part of a product development team
- 5 years of experience as a player/coach for other designers
- Deep understanding of user-centered design methods related to digital products
- Experience working within an agile methodology
- Expert with Adobe CS
- Expert with prototyping software – Figma, Sketch, etc.
- Experience working with user testing software and services
- Experience developing and evolving design systems
- Systems thinking, problem-solving abilities and critical thinking skills required
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills required
Work-life, culture, & perks:
- Competitive base salary and bonus potential
- 401k program with company match
- Comprehensive health care and excellent parental leave benefits
- Flexible PTO and generous holiday schedule
- Casual work environment
- Annual company-wide retreat
- Opportunity to work with talented people who have fun in the workplace
Company Values:
We’re looking for future team members who are energized and inspired by our values, as well as people who bring new backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. At EVERFI, our eight core values are an active part of everything we do:
- Relationships First
- Demand Excellence
- Embrace Diversity of Thought & Drive Change
- Act Like an Owner
- Always Show Up
- Share the Credit
- Require Honesty & Positivity
- Always Ask: “Did I Matter Today?”
EVERFI appreciates your interest in our company as a place of employment. It is EVERFI policy to provide equal opportunity for employment to all qualified employees and applicants, regardless of race, religion, religious affiliation, ancestry, citizenship status, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. This policy applies to all areas of employment including recruitment, placement, training, transfer, promotion, termination, pay, and other forms of compensation and benefits. EVERFI will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.
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