Marketing Designer
ABOUT THIS POSITION
We are looking for an empathetic, UX-focused Marketing Designer to help Aceable ensure our students discover the education they need in order to accomplish their life goals. You will work closely with both our Marketing and Product teams to craft a seamless user experience that starts with helping our prospective students find the learning they’re looking for quickly and easily and ends with building a trusting relationship between our brand and our students.
ABOUT ACEABLE
Aceable is a mobile education platform focused on creating affordable, engaging, and convenient online courses available across all mobile devices. Built by former teachers, NASA engineers, and those passionate about education, the Austin-based team is obsessed with helping people reach life goals and milestones through online certification.
After launching its first mobile app to provide accredited driver's ed courses, Aceable expanded into real estate education and is quickly becoming one of the leading online real estate schools in the U.S. To date, the Aceable team adds hundreds of thousands of students per month, and touts more than 20 million students served. We're only getting started, and we need your help to get us to our vision of millions of students per month.
Aceable has been awarded as one of the Best Places to Work in Austin for multiple years running by numerous entities, such as the Austin Business Journal, BuiltInAustin, and EqualOcean. We actively work to foster a creative, collaborative, and diverse culture whose overall mission is to impact as many student-lives as possible.
ABOUT THE PRODUCT & DESIGN TEAM
You are joining a Product and Design team that lives our core values, is ego-free, team first, obsesses about our users and asking why, and loves to nerd out on all things product. We are growing quickly, and this is an incredible opportunity to foster collaboration and bring a good design mindset to the broader organization.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Work with Marketing and Product teammates to understand problems, prioritize solutions and create & execute a roadmap to redesign our e-commerce experience
- Perform usability research and testing to make high-quality design choices that optimize for both customer happiness and business outcomes across our marketing web experiences
- Wireframe, user test, and support the marketing design team on high-quality transactional experiences in the marketing web flow as well as in our cross-platform products
- Collaborate with our CRO team on hypotheses that creates a positive impact on our business while maintaining focus on creating clear, helpful experiences for our students
- Ideate, design, test, and launch new product offerings that extend the relationship with our students and increase their overall lifetime value
- Work with product management and design lead to co-own our roadmap
- Evangelize user-centric design and design thinking across the entire organization
- Work with our product and marketing teams to design experiences that build trust and establish long term relationships with our prospective students
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- 2+ years UX-focused product design experience preferred
- Experience with Sketch as a wireframing and UI design tool
- Experience with Protopie (or similar prototyping tools), Zeplin, and/or web and app development a huge plus
- Ability to perform strongly at any stage of the design workflow from research all the way to hand-off of production-ready experiences to developers
- Experience building great user experiences in collaboration with Product and Marketing teams on marketing web and native in-product transactional experiences
- A healthy respect and strong understanding of E-Commerce, SEO, and Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
- Strong understanding and point of view on how to make practical use of design thinking in a fast-moving startup environment
- Strong UI and interaction design skills to back up rock-solid UX principles
- NOTE: A current portfolio required to be considered for this position
ACEABLE PERKS // Standard, don’t update
- Join one of Austin's Best Places to Work in 2021
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Generous time off programs
- Flexible work schedule
- Passionate teammates excited to help you succeed and learn
- Our own space on the top floor of a downtown building
- A team meal every week
- Fully stocked drink fridges and snacks + cold brew coffee on tap
- Company events and activities (holiday events, happy hours, volunteering)
- Free parking spot downtown in our garage 24/7 or a monthly transportation stipend
- Education stipend ($500/year/full-time employee)
- Free Roadside Assistance subscription
- NOTE: Our team is currently remote due to Covid-19 and we have some awesome virtual perks that come with it (trivia, karaoke, bingo, happy hours, lunch & learns, and more)
At Aceable we celebrate and support all differences. Aceable is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital, disability, and veteran status.