Contract Designer

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7d•$150 - $200•Remote

About The Position

AugmentED is looking for a Product Designer to own the design vision and execution for experimental AI-powered learning tools being co-created with high school teachers and academic researchers. You'll work primarily with a co-design team made up of 3-4 teachers, a learning science researcher, an engineer, and a data scientist. Together you'll design and build teacher- and student-facing tools that investigate the role of AI in the classroom. The goal is to build an evidence base for a way to build AI-powered ed tech in a way that is grounded in learning science theories while addressing the classroom challenges identified by teachers. The role requires comfort with ambiguity, strong facilitation skills, and the ability to understand and work closely with researchers and teachers as well as with engineering and product. The problem space is very data heavy, so experience with data visualization and with designing AI or ML-enabled features with a lot of uncertainty are both important.

Requirements

7+ years of design experience shipping early-stage products to real users.
Design experience on a research-adjacent or data-intensive user-facing application.
Expertise creating flows, wireframes, and interaction designs for functional prototypes.
Experience testing for both 1) usability and 2) validating a scientific or academic research question or hypothesis, and an understanding of the difference.
Strong communication skills, especially with both technical and non-technical colleagues, and translating between disciplines.
Comfort with ambiguity.
Strong facilitation skills.
Ability to understand and work closely with researchers and teachers as well as with engineering and product.
Experience with data visualization.
Experience designing AI or ML-enabled features with a lot of uncertainty.

Nice To Haves

Education experience
Understanding of learning science research
Past mission-driven or social impact work

Responsibilities

Own the design vision and execution for experimental AI-powered learning tools.
Co-design and build teacher- and student-facing tools that investigate the role of AI in the classroom.
Create flows, wireframes, and interaction designs for functional prototypes.
Test for both usability and validating a scientific or academic research question or hypothesis.