Codecademy’s mission is to provide people with the skills they need to upgrade their careers, while offering them a personalized learning experience that caters to each individual’s goals. As the User Experience Director, you will lead and grow a cross-disciplinary team of Designers, Researchers, UX Writers, and Brand/Communication Designers, across all our product lines. You'll inspire your team to innovate and invent by taking smart risks, learning quickly, and optimizing accordingly. You will articulate a UX vision and drive consensus with engineering and product management leadership. You will develop talent and mentor individual contributors, design and research leads, and managers. You will guide research and design processes and methodologies.
Lead all phases of UX work; including research, conceptual design, prototyping, detailed design, usability testing, and implementation.
Attract, mentor, and retain Designers, Researchers and Writers.
Partner with Product Management and Engineering to align UX vision and activities to achieve
Continually improve research, design, and development processes to gain efficiency, remove obstacles, and simplify problems.
Create and run project schedules, budgets, and strategic plans. Lead regular design reviews and participate in team-wide design initiatives. Build connections and collaborate with other departments inside the company.
You will be successful if you:
Are a great design team leader, manager, systems-level design thinker, and visionary - with strong design instincts and excellent intuition - who will provide leadership and direction for a team of designers.
Have a “Founder” mentality - are relentless, resourceful, proactive, and loves to be a “player coach”. We’re big believers in leading from the front, by example.
Have an uncanny sense for clean design, is a fierce advocate for the user, and is committed to creating elegantly simple user experiences from otherwise complex workflows.
Can optimize not just the execution side of design, but the business aspects of the products as well.
Have demonstrated strong ability to work with product & engineering teams in prototyping features & products.
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in a UX-related field (human-computer interaction, human factors, behavioral research, or graphic design), or equivalent practical experience.
3-5 years of experience managing and guiding a UX team.
3-5 years as a Designer or User Researcher working on complex web or desktop applications.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree in a UX-related field (human-computer interaction, human factors, behavioral research, or graphic design).
5+ years of experience managing a UX team.
Experience designing for multiple device types and contexts (desktop, tablet, smartphone).
Proven leadership in communicating research, conceptual ideas, and design rationale; all within a user-centered design process.
Effective analytic, design, and management skills and a proven track record of shipping successful software experiences.
Demonstrated problem-solving, and verbal and written communication skills.
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