{"id":18473,"date":"2017-07-19T10:14:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T14:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=18473"},"modified":"2017-07-19T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T14:14:28","slug":"job-vp-design-research-at-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2017\/07\/19\/job-vp-design-research-at-homer\/","title":{"rendered":"JOB: VP, Design Research at Homer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>VP, Design Research at Homer<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Homer (learnwithhomer.com) is looking for a full time, highly creative and motivated VP of<\/div>\n<div>Design Research to join our energetic, growing team!<\/div>\n<div>You will have an immediate and visible impact on product initiatives that touch the lives of<\/div>\n<div>children, parents and teachers across the globe. You\u2019ll help create engaging experiences for<\/div>\n<div>users and lead the growth of a talented research team. You will report directly to our Chief<\/div>\n<div>Product Officer and work with Product Managers, Marketing, Engineering, and Content<\/div>\n<div>Production teams to design and develop new features, functionality, and experiences for the<\/div>\n<div>Homer platform.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Your responsibilities:<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Develop a thorough understanding of our users, their motivation, needs and pain points<\/div>\n<div>through qualitative and quantitative studies (including field observations, interviews,<\/div>\n<div>usability studies and surveys)<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Rapidly create user experience artifacts including functional specs, user flows,<\/div>\n<div>wireframes, sitemaps, prototypes, and low-fidelity sketches<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Lead a team of researchers, UX designers, and UI designers to conceptualize usable,<\/div>\n<div>valuable, consistent and intuitive user experiences across platforms and devices by<\/div>\n<div>considering market context, industry and competitor trends, customer feedback, site<\/div>\n<div>metrics, and usability<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Own the Customer Journey Map and Consumer Insights (both parent &amp; child) efforts<\/div>\n<div>across the company, including mapping the full funnel from awareness through<\/div>\n<div>retention &amp; referral<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Collaborate with other researchers, designers, product managers, data scientists,<\/div>\n<div>marketing, and engineers to ensure research you deliver is integrated into every aspect<\/div>\n<div>of the product and provides a holistic view of our users<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Create powerful ways to synthesize and communicate research insights and<\/div>\n<div>recommendations<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Identify and explore new opportunities through creative research methods and<\/div>\n<div>co-design sessions to help define product roadmaps, vision, and strategy<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Build empathy across the organization to improve the products we create for children<\/div>\n<div>around the world and always champion for our users<\/div>\n<div>You should have:<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf 8+ yrs of professional experience in Interaction Product Design and User Research<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Lead a design team at a high-growth, consumer-facing company<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf A bachelor\u2019s degree in Design, Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction or related<\/div>\n<div>field<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u25cf An online portfolio of working on iOS, Android, and web products that shows your<\/div>\n<div>approach, thought process, insights, and clear communication style<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Experience in solving user problems with quantitative and qualitative research and<\/div>\n<div>data, with a core belief in testing as a means of constant and iterative improvement<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Ability to manage multiple projects and team members and prioritize your roadmap<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf A clean and strong design sense that values usability, simplicity and consistency<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Exceptional communication and presentation skills<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Exceptional organizational and analytical skills<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and prototyping tools<\/div>\n<div>We prefer but don\u2019t require:<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf MS or PhD degree<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Experience with CSS\/HTML and JavaScript<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Familiarity with a programming language commonly used for data manipulation and<\/div>\n<div>computational statistics (such as Python, R, C++, or Java), and in SQL<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Experience conducting user testing with children<\/div>\n<div>We like people who:<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Are enthusiastic about building amazing products<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Are open to suggestions, collaborative, and thrive in team environments<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Love and are willing to learning new technologies and styles<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Are scrappy, entrepreneurial with the ability to turnaround high-quality projects<\/div>\n<div>quickly without depending on a large team<\/div>\n<div>What You\u2019ll Get:<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Homer offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits.<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Smart, passionate, and engaged co-workers.<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Excellent top-tier Medical\/Dental\/Vision benefits<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf The chance to have a big impact, quickly<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf The rare opportunity to make a dent in the universe. We\u2019re bringing a love of<\/div>\n<div>reading and learning to children globally<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To Apply:<\/div>\n<div>\u25cf Email jobs@homerlearning.com and include your resume<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Homer is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from a<\/div>\n<div>wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to apply. Homer does not discriminate on the<\/div>\n<div>basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, national origin,<\/div>\n<div>citizenship, age, mental or physical disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual<\/div>\n<div>orientation or any other basis prohibited by law.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VP, Design Research at Homer Homer (learnwithhomer.com) is looking for a full time, highly creative and motivated VP of Design Research to join our energetic,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}