Brilliant

Senior Product Designer, User Motivation

7 month


Weโ€™re seeking a passionate and experienced Senior Product Designer to help accelerate our efforts in user motivation, drawing inspiration from the worlds of game design and storytelling to help learners feel accomplished and inspired as they achieve their goals in STEM.

Product designers at Brilliant work across three domains: Growth, Learning Experience, and User Motivation.

As Senior Product Designer on the User Motivation pod, you'll be crafting delightful, surprising moments throughout the learning experience and developing strategies to keep learners engaged long-term. This is a unique opportunity for a designer to explore how playful interactions, rewards, and other interventions can support and inspire learners. The surfaces you will design for will include product onboarding, in-lesson flows, wayfinding, navigation, as well as lifecycle emails and push notifications. For a sample of UMโ€™s recent projects, check out this case study that outlines how we motivate users with delightful animation.

Youโ€™ll work with a diverse team of artists, animators, educators, designers, and developers and youโ€™ll use data and user research to inform new ways to motivate users. Your work will help learners around the world understand topics from Logic to Exploring Data Visually to Thinking in Code. in an inspiring and interactive way. The transition from passive to active learning online is still in its infancy: come build the future of interactive learning with us!


Specifically, you'll:

  • Explore and imagine experiences that motivate and inspire learners
  • Solve meaty interaction and design system problems
  • Create a range of deliverables, from high-fidelity UI and prototypes to written processes and documentation
  • Provide design support to both the User Motivation and Lifecycle pods
  • Work with product managers to influence overall product strategy and roadmap
  • Work closely with other designers on the team to expand design systems that work beautifully across web and native mobile apps
  • Uphold the quality of the Brilliant brand across every touchpoint with our audience
  • Contribute to the culture of a small and growing design team


You:

  • Are a passionate and experienced product designer with great UX and UI skills, and have the ability to see a project through all stages of the design process
  • Are a game design enthusiast with experience or at least a passion and appreciation for game design, and hold opinions on game feel principles
  • Are very aware of industry trends and ways to push our design system to the next level, always sharing fresh ideas and references
  • Have experience working at a similar B2C tech company with a web-focus (ideally in a relevant industry like edtech, learning games, or self-improvement)
  • Have stellar communication skills and the ability to present clear, visual-forward artifacts to get everyone on the same page
  • Are collaborative, great at taking and receiving feedback, and prefer working in a team environment vs. siloed
  • Are jazzed to learn new topics in STEM (maybe you even studied STEM formally)
  • Nice to have: Deep expertise in one or more of the following: motion, sound, or haptics

$155,000 - $205,000 a year

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Brilliant is a tight-knit team of scientists, educators, engineers, designers, storytellers, and illustrators who are redesigning education at scale.

We believe that math and science are fascinating and beautiful, but that the tools widely used to teach it are dry and ineffective. Brilliant makes learning STEM fun, through problem solving and interactive explorations โ€“ from foundational math and science to cutting-edge computer science and professional topics.

Brilliant helps over 12 million students, professionals, and lifelong learners around the world cultivate problem solving skills, build intuition, and master concepts rather than memorize them. To understand more about our approach, see our learning principles.

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