We're hiring a Product Designer. Join us!
Kandu Studios is where kids make stuff together.
We've built a powerful operating system that allows kids to have new kinds of conversations and collaborations with each other. We are hiring a full-time Product Designer to lead a data-driven design initiative on a bold mission to empower kids to build and create using technology in an exciting, interactive, and fun mobile environment.
As the Product Designer, you will be responsible for exploring, defining, and executing Kandu's visual language and experience. It helps if you can think like a kid! You will be expected to break down complex problems into simple, intuitive, and delightful solutions using your full range of product design, interaction design, and visual design skills. You think holistically about your design decisions and thrive in a fast-paced, iterative, and collaborative environment.
Responsibilities:
Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something usable, effective, and fun.
Develop visual assets for products from doodles to wireframes to pixel-perfect graphics and specs.
Design flows and experiences that are simple and intuitive.
Partner with PMs, engineers, researchers, and other team members to guide the user experience of a product or feature from conception through launch.
Work to extend and expand the visual language of our products.
Continually improve design team best practices.
Develop and document design standards, style guides, and build design kits to enable the team to design at scale.
About You:
You relish the idea of creating a place that gives kids the power to make stuff together and believe kid-centric design isn’t just about bright colors and big buttons.
You love digging into the details of visual design and crafting clear interactions while always infusing a bit of personality.
Your visual style has a clear point of view and you can’t help but create cool/quirky characters.
You think of design in terms of systems and can clearly and effectively articulate your design decisions.
You integrate data from research, feedback, and testing into your designs.
You have experience building mobile apps and a passion for taking advantage of the unique affordances mobile devices provide.
You understand the technical limitations and liberties behind your decisions and have enough chops to communicate your ideas to engineers.
You look for opportunities to solve problems in unique and innovative ways.
You love making things beautiful, obsess over details, and are excited to polish until your work is pixel-perfect.
You are comfortable and flexible in a fast-changing, collaborative, agile environment.
Bonus Points:
Experience with 3D, motion, and/or sound design.
Prior mobile game design work.
Development skills to prototype front-end applications in Unity and/or web.
Interest or experience in working on youth-focused products.
If you're interested in joining the team, please send your résumé and a link to your portfolio to [email protected].