The Role
The Managing Director, User Experience Lead (New York, NY)…
The Team
We, the Information Technology team, partners with every other team in the organization to create world-class technology solutions that allow us to work more effectively and efficiently toward our mission. To do so, we work with some of the biggest names in technology and leverage the latest software, equipment, and expertise. Our team works hard, but we also have a lot of fun.
The Managing Director, User Experience Lead (New York, NY)…
- Is a senior user experience (UX) professional on the Information Technology team at Teach For America who designs great products that help fuel the movement to eliminate educational inequity.
- Formulates design strategy and creates easy-to-learn, easy-to-use products - prototyping and articulating functionality to business teams when appropriate.
- Supervises the Director, User Experience Designer and reports to the Senior Managing Director, Business Analysis & User Experience.
The Team
We, the Information Technology team, partners with every other team in the organization to create world-class technology solutions that allow us to work more effectively and efficiently toward our mission. To do so, we work with some of the biggest names in technology and leverage the latest software, equipment, and expertise. Our team works hard, but we also have a lot of fun.
Skills/Experience:
Primary Responsibilities
Requirements
Prior Experience
Apply Now
To be considered for this role, you must submit an online application. Please scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the link to the online application. For more information, please contact [email protected] or visit www.teachforamerica.org/about-us/careers.
About the Organization
There are more than 16 million children growing up in poverty in the U.S., and less than 10 percent of them will graduate from college. These statistics are not a reflection of our children’s potential; we know that children growing up in poverty can and do achieve at the highest levels. Rather, these statistics reflect the systemic lack of access and opportunity for children in low-income communities.
Teach For America (TFA) finds, develops, and supports an ever-expanding network of outstanding and diverse leaders committed to expanding opportunity for children in schools, school systems, and in every sector and field that shapes the context in which schools operate. Representing the diversity of America and sharing the experience of having taught successfully in our most challenging public schools, TFA corps members and alumni form a network of change agents inside and outside of education who are grounded in the tremendous potential of our most underserved children and connected to families and communities impacted by educational inequity.
Founded by Wendy Kopp in 1989, Teach For America has since expanded to 36 states and 53 regions, reaching more than 10 million students. Now 53,000 strong and growing each year, the TFA community is leading across all sectors, including as teachers, school and school system leaders, elected officials, policy and advocacy organizers, social entrepreneurs, and business and civic leaders. We support the individual and collective leadership of this network as they work hand-in-hand with students, families, and allies in the effort to realize educational equity and excellence for children across the nation.
Our Core Values and Diversity, Equity & Inclusiveness Statement
Learn more about our Core Values and our commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusiveness.
Benefits and Salary
Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, a comprehensive benefits package is included. Learn more at ww.teachforamerica.org/about-us/careers/employee-benefits.
Commitment to Diversity and Equal Opportunity Employment Policy
Teach For America encourages individuals of all ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds to apply for this position. We are committed to maximizing the diversity of our organization, as we want to engage all those who can contribute to this effort. Learn more about our diversity on staff: www.teachforamerica.org/about-us/careers/life-at-tfa/workforce-diversity-and-inclusiveness.
Teach For America is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
This job description reflects Teach For America's assignment of essential functions and qualifications of the role. Nothing in this herein restricts management's right to assign, reassign or eliminate duties and responsibilities to this role at any time.
- Be the advocate for the user.
- Lead user-centered, contextual, and participatory design processes.
- Set the Teach For America Information Technology team’s user experience agenda.
- Manage and develop a junior designer.
- Clearly articulate visions and conceptualize multiple high-quality, cross-platform solutions: responsively designed for desktop, mobile, and tablet.
- Create sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and other design artifacts as necessary to communicate design concepts clearly.
- Effectively translate complex requirements into easy-to-understand interfaces.
- Develop and enact research plans for both new and existing products, working directly with both business stakeholders and product users.
- Perform usability tests on new and existing products, and on process artifacts such as wireframes and prototypes.
- Collaborate with others and communicate findings across diverse teams.
Requirements
Prior Experience
- 6+ years of outstanding performance in a user experience role focusing on products.
- 2+ years of management experience.
- Mastery of one or more of the following: Balsamiq, Axure, Omnigraffle, Adobe Creative Suite, and/or other similar wireframe and design tools.
- Mastery of methodologies including - but not limited to - ideation workshops, contextual testing, creating personas, task models, card sort exercises, customer journeys, survey design, interviewing, utilizing analytics, and conducting heuristic/expert analyses.
- This position is located on site at our office in New York, NY.
- Occasional travel may be required (once per quarter).
- Is a dynamic, visionary leader in the field of user experience.
- Has curated a rich personal philosophy of what makes a good user experience and is passionate about working to create that experience.
- Holds a seasoned, studied, and nuanced sense of design.
- Is a strong user researcher.
- Is comfortable with atomic design, and with establishing and managing design patterns.
- Has expert time management, organization, and planning skills.
- Has experience working collaboratively with project teams, is open to feedback, keeps a positive attitude, and has a consistent ability to be flexible in the face of changing priorities and requirements.
- Demonstrates Teach For America’s core values.
- Undergraduate concentration and/or graduate degree in human-computer interaction, design, cognitive science, psychology, architecture, city planning, or other related field is required.
- Bachelor's degree required.
Apply Now
To be considered for this role, you must submit an online application. Please scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the link to the online application. For more information, please contact [email protected] or visit www.teachforamerica.org/about-us/careers.
About the Organization
There are more than 16 million children growing up in poverty in the U.S., and less than 10 percent of them will graduate from college. These statistics are not a reflection of our children’s potential; we know that children growing up in poverty can and do achieve at the highest levels. Rather, these statistics reflect the systemic lack of access and opportunity for children in low-income communities.
Teach For America (TFA) finds, develops, and supports an ever-expanding network of outstanding and diverse leaders committed to expanding opportunity for children in schools, school systems, and in every sector and field that shapes the context in which schools operate. Representing the diversity of America and sharing the experience of having taught successfully in our most challenging public schools, TFA corps members and alumni form a network of change agents inside and outside of education who are grounded in the tremendous potential of our most underserved children and connected to families and communities impacted by educational inequity.
Founded by Wendy Kopp in 1989, Teach For America has since expanded to 36 states and 53 regions, reaching more than 10 million students. Now 53,000 strong and growing each year, the TFA community is leading across all sectors, including as teachers, school and school system leaders, elected officials, policy and advocacy organizers, social entrepreneurs, and business and civic leaders. We support the individual and collective leadership of this network as they work hand-in-hand with students, families, and allies in the effort to realize educational equity and excellence for children across the nation.
Our Core Values and Diversity, Equity & Inclusiveness Statement
Learn more about our Core Values and our commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusiveness.
Benefits and Salary
Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, a comprehensive benefits package is included. Learn more at ww.teachforamerica.org/about-us/careers/employee-benefits.
Commitment to Diversity and Equal Opportunity Employment Policy
Teach For America encourages individuals of all ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds to apply for this position. We are committed to maximizing the diversity of our organization, as we want to engage all those who can contribute to this effort. Learn more about our diversity on staff: www.teachforamerica.org/about-us/careers/life-at-tfa/workforce-diversity-and-inclusiveness.
Teach For America is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
This job description reflects Teach For America's assignment of essential functions and qualifications of the role. Nothing in this herein restricts management's right to assign, reassign or eliminate duties and responsibilities to this role at any time.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Nov 13 2017
Active Until:
Dec 10 2017
Hiring Organization:
Teach For America
industry:
Nonprofit