Are you our UX Lead?
Join us on a journey of shaping the future of education and parenting!
Our mission
Lingokids' mission is to help 100 million families around the world raise amazing children through Playlearning™. To help us on this mission, we're looking for an exceptional UX Director.
We're reinventing early childhood education through an online language learning service for kids. With fresh content (games, books, videos, interactive episodes, etc.) every week, we are helping more than 65M families and their children around the world learn English in a fun and effecive way.
Our dream is to have a positive impact on 100M families and we're working hard to make it a reality. Our talented team of product designers, software engineers, and content producers tweak and improve our product daily while incorporating feedback from our customers.
About the role
As a UX Lead, you will mentor a team of 4 designers focused on building the best possible experience for our customers. Your work will be critical to ensure we build the right thing.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the charge in representing user needs within the organization, ensuring a user-centric approach in our product development.
- Be the expert in mobile product design, imparting your knowledge and mentoring our design team (4 product designers).
- Set the standard for mobile design excellence, covering high-level design strategy, detailed interaction design, and user interface elements.
- Fostering growth in people, skills, tools, and processes.
- Be a thought leader across de company, managing interactions with stakeholders like Marketing or Studios, to enhance our user experience.
- Make sure that design choices are explicitly driven by clear hypotheses and address both user and business needs in a measurable way.
- Work closely with product management to bring product strategies to life through visionary design concepts.
- Engage with product management, engineering, research, and data science teams to ensure a streamlined and effective product development process.
Desired experience
- +7 years of experience as a product designer, with a strong portfolio of mobile projects.
- Proven experience in leading and mentoring designers.
- Experience building mobile products. We also value experience in gaming/learning products (although it is not a mandatory requirement).
- Learning products, game-based products, or kids’ (2-8 yrs old) products highly desirable.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. Able to articulate problems and solutions in a clear and concise manner. Able to clearly communicate product experience goals and requirements to a wide range of partners and stakeholders, including senior executive management.
- Ability to juggle multiple projects, activities and deliverables while preserving product goals and the needs of the team. Ability to balance near-term deliverables and long-term planning.
At Lingokids we encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We actively seek to hire individuals with different perspectives and we are eager to continue diversifying our company's culture. We strive to be an inclusive, supportive place where you can do the best work of your career.
Our offices are in Madrid, Spain but the position is open to anyone with experience working remotely. Some overlap with Central European Time is expected though, for those times when a video call is the most efficient way to communicate.
Team values
- Be humble
- Respect your colleagues
- Act as an owner
- Win as a team
- We have each other's back
- Develop a minimum viable product and iterate
- Release often
- Experiment as much as possible
- Give honest feedback
- Disagree and commit
Benefits
🏡 Remote working:
You can choose to work from home or attend to our Madrid headquarters whenever you feel like it.
⚖️ Flexible hours and work-life balance:
We care about the results you bring to the team. 9 to 6 and constant commuting is not for us either.
📈 Stock options:
Joining Lingokids means you can choose to own part of the company.
🌍 Visa sponsorship:
If you need a visa to work in the EU, Lingokids will assist you during the visa process, costs-included.
📚 Professional growth:
Up to €2.000 per year for conferences, books and training.
💬 Language lessons:
Language learning is what we’re all about! We’ll cover language classes for you to learn Spanish, English or Portuguese.
🩺 Health care:
We have optional health insurance as flexible retribution and 4 online therapy sessions for free to help your self-awareness and wellbeing.
💳 Flexible compensation:
You'll be able to include your monthly expenses in meals and transportations into your payroll.
🍲 Meal allowances:
Every month, you will receive a 60€ voucher for you to spend on the restaurants and food delivery services you like the most.
🖥 Home office setup:
You'll have a 400€ voucher to set up your home office and 35€ of monthly allowance for remote expenses.
🙌 Feedback culture:
Feedback is the breakfast of champions, and we take it seriously! We have a real-time and honest feedback culture, and a formal 360º assessment every 6 months.