Principal Product Designer

What We Do
Founded in 2015, ReUp Education is the only organization focusing exclusively on helping colleges and universities engage and re-enroll the more than 40 million US residents who have "stopped out" and support them until graduation through our technology-enabled service. To date, we have re-enrolled over 28,500 students and recaptured over $139 million in tuition for our university partners. Today, we build regional marketplaces to connect the supply of educational opportunities with the demand for skilled and credentialed workforce professionals.
ReUp Education is seeking a skilled Principal Interaction / UX Designer to define and deliver a bold strategy for the organization's product portfolio. This role will be pivotal in translating our product vision into concrete solutions that reshape the higher education and workforce landscape.
As the Principal Product Designer, you'll report to the Senior Director of Product and work closely with the Product Management, Analytics, and Engineering teams to create exceptional user experiences across our products. You will have a rare opportunity to contribute to a full suite of technology platforms, including a learner-facing education-to-career marketplace, government and school-facing applications, and internal tools that supercharge the delivery of our offering.
What you'll do

• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, Learner Services, and other stakeholders to deliver successful products.
• Partner with the Product and Engineering teams to refine and implement a flexible product design process to enable development speed, customer delight, and consistent user experiences across the portfolio.
• Foster user-centricity by conducting and analyzing user research and testing assumptions via rapid prototyping.
• Define, maintain, and apply design guidelines and best practices across the product portfolio.
• Measure and optimize the impact of design on key metrics that move the needle for the business.
• Keep abreast of design trends and industry developments, incorporating relevant advancements into the team's workflow.

Qualifications
ReUp Education is an equal-opportunity employer. Our company values diversity and believes diverse teams make innovation possible. We encourage all qualified applicants from any race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or other characteristics to apply.

• 7+ years of proven experience in a product design role with a strong track record of delivering successful products.
• Exceptional understanding of user-centered design principles, UX research, UI design principles, interactions design, and rapid prototyping.
• Strong understanding of B2B/enterprise software design principles.
• Great team player, highly self-motivated. Ability to collaborate closely with product managers, product designers, engineers, and copywriters.
• Ability to translate business requirements into innovative design solutions.
• Knowledge of front-end development technologies and their impact on design decisions.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.
• Exceptional product sense, design intuition, attention to detail, and curiosity.

Nice to Have

• Experience in a startup or rapidly growing company: Demonstrated ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Experience in EdTech.
• Experience designing for both B2B and B2C applications
• Portfolio demonstrating a strong ability to create exceptional user experiences.
• Bachelor's degree in Product Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Fine Art, Architecture, OR equivalent experience.

Location
This hybrid role combines the best of both worlds: in-person collaboration in our Austin, TX, office for 2-3 days per week and the flexibility of remote work.
Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees
• • We pay 100% of the employee's premium and 50% of any dependents' premiums
  • Contribute up to $2000 to employee HSA/$3000 to employee + dependent HSA
  • PPO Buy-up plan available
  • FSA available
• Company paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance for employee
• Flexible time off and remote work opportunity
• Up to 80 hours of dedicated sick time annually to support your well-being and work-life balance
• 15 paid holidays per year (including Juneteenth and the last week of the calendar year)
• Company wellness days (2 per year)
• Day of Service (Paid day for volunteering)
• 401(k) plan
• Paid parental leave (12 weeks primary parental leave, 6 weeks secondary parental leave)
• A diverse team that fosters a high level of collaboration despite being highly distributed
• We provide your choice of a Mac or PC laptop

Company Culture
TEAMWORK * RESULTS * CONSTANT LEARNING * AGENCY * DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION * JOY
ReUp employees share a passion for improving outcomes for stopout students. We support students to get Results as they embark on finishing what they started. We believe in the power of human potential and that supporting an individual's Agency acts as a catalyst for positive change and resiliency. We support Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, for both the students we work with and in our hiring practices. We value Teamwork and strive to create a safe and supportive environment where trust, communication, creativity, and humility are valued as highly as technical skills. We tackle hard problems with curiosity and take action towards continuous improvement and Constant Learning. Approaching our work with open hearts, open minds, and seeking collective success creates Joy. If that sounds like your dream work environment, we look forward to hearing from you.
The pay range for this role is:
Starting base pay $145,000-$170,000 per year commensurate with experience per year (Austin, TX)
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