Director - User Experience - KualiCo - Provo

Job description
KualiCo, a dynamic new open source EdTech company, is looking for a uniquely-qualified User Experience Director to recruit and cultivate a team of world-class UX professionals. KualiCo builds open source, cloud-based higher ed solutions in a competitive space where users are just waiting to be delighted. Your brilliant creativity, understanding of development processes, intuition and experience with user research will help us build amazing software in a market that really needs it.
Why join us? You’ll get to work with some truly amazing people at a fast-growing, design-centric EdTech startup with exceptional benefits. Our work matters — we’re helping our customers improve the quality of education. You’ll have a significant impact on what we do and how we do it because we are an empowered group of entrepreneurs. KualiCo is committed to open source software development funded by our cloud offering. If you’re looking to make your fortune off a quick flip with no business model, you’d be happier someplace else.
The Kuali community recently celebrated their 10 year anniversary, and they’re rooting for us to deliver something amazing with the next generation of Kuali products. We’re generating revenue and growing quickly with more than 100 customers.
We offer a truly exceptional benefits package including significant employee profit sharing, full premium coverage for employee and dependent medical, and dental care. We offer 401(k) matching, and all the paid-time off that you need (just work it out with your manager). As a company we formally work from home once per week, but working from home on your own sometimes is nbd.

Position Summary
You’ll help create and manage a team of designers who build elegant and intuitive administrative products which help universities and colleges do their business. Modules will include things like Student Registration and Planning, Financial Aid and Scholarships, Finance, HR, Research, and Continuity Planning. Our software replaces cumbersome legacy systems built by big ERP companies. We’re a young company so you’ll also have plenty of opportunity to help shape organizational culture and processes.

What you’ll be responsible for…
Talking and listening to customers about their hopes, dreams and pains in the butt
Attracting, recruiting, and mentoring amazing design talent
Building relationships with clients to develop a deep understanding of their needs
Advocating passionately for client priorities during product development
Helping establish our design, research and prioritization processes
Selecting the best bits of the agile world and helping us implement them
Creating and iterating on world class design patterns and libraries for reuse amongst our products, including greenfield, refactoring and enhancement projects
Creating wireframes, models, prototypes and graphic assets

Desired Skills and Experience
About you…
You’re a design visionary. You help people understand why design is important and you paint a vision that gets people drooling.
You’re versatile. You know when to dream big and when to act small. You’re equally comfortable in both greenfield and refactoring projects.
You’re a collaborator. You build great relationships across the company, customers, and our communities and you’re a master at engaging the right people at the right time.
You’re inspired to achieve results, and your enthusiasm is contagious.
You’re passionate about your role in helping clients achieve their missions, and you advocate for them fiercely.
You’re curious and continuously seek knowledge and share your discoveries with others.
If you have some of these too we’ll be delighted:
You’ve worked on mobile apps.
You’ve worked in both startups and in big companies.
You have experience with the Higher Education community.
You’ve shipped Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions.
You’ve been through incremental refactoring efforts.

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