Senior Product Designer and Leader
Kuali, United States
Job Description
Who are we?
Kuali builds software solutions for higher education. We help our customers colleges amp; universities focus on providing a fantastic education to students by decreasing their administrative costs. We work in a competitive space, ripe for innovation, with users ready to be delighted.
Our Culture
As a company, we are guided by our cultural values:
- Iterate to evolve
- Cultivate openness
- Act with accountability
- Assume the best
- Practice humility
- Deliver amazing experiences
- Make mistakes
As Kuali employees, we learn from and teach each other, we practice transparency and empathy, and we delight in delivering value to our customers.
We work remotely, and have for years. Distributed work is in our bones, with a history of institutions working across state lines on open-source software for more than ten years. Our employees each work in the environment where they’re happiest, from Pennsylvania to Hawaii. We work consciously to create a collaborative and healthy remote work culture, and we travel to meet in person a few times each year.
Everyone should love their work.
Kuali has been voted a top place to work for 3 years in a row by the Salt Lake Tribune. We also made Forbes' list of America's Best Startup Employers for 2020. Not too shabby.
At Kuali, we are committed to providing a welcoming environment where people of all races, gender identities, gender expressions, sexual orientations, physical abilities, physical appearances, socioeconomic backgrounds, life experiences, nationalities, ages, marital status, veteran status, military service eligibility, religions, and beliefs are included, valued and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion strengthens us as humans, as teams and as a company.
Requirements
Your product team
You will work closely with the Financials product team and product managers and designers across the company. Our Financials product helps colleges and universities meet strategic and audit goals through powerful accounting controls, access to key insights, and configurable SaaS financial software to ensure consistent processes so they can focus more on the teaching, community service, and research mission.
Who are you?
We’re looking for a curious, enthusiastic, empathetic senior designer and product leader to lead design and strategic product leadership. You might be a perfect fit for this role if you are looking to expand your skillset beyond product design. This role will include some product management-looking activities like: managing the product roadmap, guiding customer conversations, developing the product vision. This role will partner with a product owner who will order engineering tickets, list other responsibilities here
The product you’ll be working on is a mature product that we’re iterating on in ways that care for the tens of thousands of users that depend on it every day, that still has opportunities for new feature discovery and development.
We believe the best products are created by teams who represent a broad range of ideas and perspectives. We value employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences that bring something new to complement the team.
You.
- You have at least 5+ years experience as a product designer on either consumer or business apps
- You’re a curious, optimistic problem solver
- You want everything to be a fantastic experience, not just the projects you’re working on
- You love designing in any medium, including apps, and the occasional support for other visual designs to support your team
- You don’t consider UX work done until it’s validated with customers
- You have a knack for communicating the product vision and helping the team stay focused on discovering, providing, measuring, and validating customer / user value
- You love helping others understand what current problem needs to be solved and why, as well as what’s on the horizon
- You understand that knowledge of the competitive landscape is important, and you also don’t get so hung up about chasing the competition that you lose sight of what we can uniquely offer our stakeholders
- You love learning new stuff constantly
- You don’t need a manager to give you tasks
- You’re humble and take great ideas wherever they come from
We’d be delighted if you bring experience with:
- Shipping Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions
- The Higher Education community
- Financial Systems
Benefits
- Top-of-the-line equipment of your choice to get your job done
- A truly exceptional benefits package including full premium coverage for employ