Position: Lead UI/UX Designer
Company: Freelance
Category: Design
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

**ClassTag is a high-growth Edtech start-up, with a core team in New York and Ukraine, and contributors globally. Backed by top VCs and growing at 5x annual rate, reaching 5MM+ parents and teachers across 25,000 US schools.**

As the Head of Design at ClassTag, you will be responsible for UX and UI. ClassTag users should be able to achieve their goals through the platform. You will build the team and processes necessary to achieve that goal. You will also be responsible for evolving the visual brand.

**What You Will Do:**
-	Design System: Creating and managing the design system and libraries in Figma for the desktop and mobile apps, along with the visual brand.
-	Management: Build and manage the team.
-	Organizational Leadership: Engage with the organization to ensure that everyone hears and is heard.
-	Lead/Consume UX research. Conduct user research through quantitative and qualitative methods or engage others to do so.
Your Goals
-	Make the site easy to use. Re-think the overall flow and user experience in the goal to make the app more fun and easy to engage with.
-	Make designs that are attractive and natural. On a regular basis, evaluate our current platform and communications surface area and identify opportunities to improve the visual experience.
-	Be a design leader. We expect you to fight for good design and ensure that it happens everywhere. Provide a creative vision, not only for the design team but for the whole organization. Advocate for our users.

**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:**
-	You lead collaboratively
-	You are reliable
-	You are diligent with details
-	You speak Figma fluently in terms of components, variants, interactions, etc
-	You insist on Atomic design everywhere
-	You are familiar with cognitive biases and heuristics.
-	You are passionate about great UX and UI

**Background**
**-	10+ years of web/app design experience, with 2+ years of team leadership, is a MUST**
-	Experience working across organizations to ensure consistency in design.
-	Experience in cross-functional development teams.
-	You are up-to-date on product design trends and best practices.
-	Experience designing full-service consumer and business applications
-	Distinctive portfolio of work that demonstrates a strong understanding of human-centered design practice as well as a deep understanding of UI/UX best practices

Interview process: 
CV and Portfolio Review 
HR Interview (20 minutes) 
A screening interview with CTO (15-minute call)
Alvalabs online assessment (30 minutes)
Tech Interview (30 minutes)
Technical Interview (45 minutes)