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What We Are Looking For
You have a knack for generating intuitive and creative UX/UI experiences for kids and their caregivers. You thrive in areas where you are creating witty and imaginative content. You have mastered the understanding and application of friendly interfaces that enable consumers to comprehend how to use technical products. Most importantly, you resonate with our mission; to design innovative products, extend our reach to the informal learning and academic environments, and are committed to helping kids and adults create safer kinder communities.
Who We Are
At Encantos, we’re leading the future of learning through play. Named by Fast Company as one of the Most Innovative Companies in the world in Education, Encantos is an award-winning edtech company focused on inspiring kids to learn 21st-century skills. We build direct-to-consumer brands with our innovative “Storyteaching” methodology that both kids and parents love. Our brands are created by talented and culturally authentic storytellers with diverse perspectives and each brand is matched with the 21st-century literacy, learning, and life skills they best model. Our brands include the Emmy-nominated and 2x Kidscreen award-winning #1 bilingual preschool brand Canticos, the Day of the Dead-inspired resilience brand Skeletitos, and the adventure-based travel brand Tiny Travelers. We believe both digital and physical play is critical to the growth and development of kids, stimulating imagination, creativity, and a love of learning. With a subscription-led approach, our brands come to life via integrated digital and physical products, including digital and physical products, animated series, books, puzzles, apps, and games that all work together to entertain, educate and inspire kids of all ages.
Encantos was called by The Information as one of the “Top 6 Edtech Startups to Watch” and by Business Insider as one of the “Top 100 Startups of 2020”.
Encantos has received numerous industry awards and accolades from the AP, ASU GSV, CNN, Common Sense Media, Forbes, Kidscreen, Kirkus Reviews, NBC News, The New York Times, NPR, Parents Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Romper, School Library Journal, Univision and USA Today. Founded in 2016 and backed by world-class VCs, Encantos is a fast-growing startup headquartered in Culver City, CA with offices in New York. As a public benefit corporation, we’re dedicated to creating the most purpose-driven family brands putting diversity, equality, and inclusion at the heart of everything we do.
What You’ll Do
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- Create thoughtful, whimsical, and engaging UI/UX designs for our app and web-based platforms
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of artists, game designers, and engineers to create engaging kid-oriented activities and interactive experiences
- Conceptualize intuitive user experiences across platforms and devices by considering market context, industry and competitor trends, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability
- Humanize technology – Conceptualize kid as well as adult user-friendly flows, that empower accessible and successful user experiences
- Design and execute the evolution of our brand’s visual design
- Architect user-centric web experiences geared to optimize conversion
- Rapidly create user experience artifacts including functional specs, user flows, wireframes, sitemaps, prototypes, and low-fidelity sketches
- Effectively collaborate with our internal teams which span across Product, Growth, Creative, and Engineering
- Create strong working partnerships with other department stakeholders to hypothesize, test, and measure customer growth and success of our digital products
- Work closely with Product leadership, participate in and contribute to brainstorming sessions, and synthesize user data into actionable design decisions
- Implement design-focused solutions based on consumer feedback, research, and testing
- Lead the visual brand consistency between all of our web and mobile products
- Collaborate with the Engineering team to ensure product designs are executed to spec and help resolve any implementation issues that may arise
- Maintain a consistent pulse on advances within the UX design community, interactive media trends, and other industry-related technologies in order to promote new ways of thinking, working, and problem-solving for our users and our business
- Use your professional superpowers to connect our company’s mission to providing kids with the best interactive experiences possible
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What You’ll Bring
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- 5+ years of UX/UI design experience.
- Have a scrappy, entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to turn around high-quality projects quickly and independently
- Proven ability to understand and work within an Agile environment
- Must have a strong understanding and familiarity with successful youth-focused apps and websites
- Invigorate the consumer experience by creating user-friendly interfaces that serve both children’s and adult’s needs
- Fantastic ability to time manage various projects and participate in product planning and execution
- Professional level experience using InVision, Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and Lucid to develop wireframes and functional prototypes
- Solid understanding of typography, grid systems, color, composition, and the language of interactive media
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Bonus
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- A/B Testing experience
- Experience in working with products targeting parents and children between the ages of 2-10
- Deep understanding and experience in the subscription world or designing children’s media/products or games
- Strong knowledge in designing purchase flows and conversion funnels
- Background in user research through feedback, moderated usability tests, and focus groups or other research methodologies
- Demonstrated ability to design for different audiences within and across multiple products under one brand
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What We Offer
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- A purpose-driven mission
- A fun place to work with smart, creative, and driven team members
- Competitive salary + equity
- Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Fitness benefits
