We’re Atom and our mission is to democratise education. We use machine learning and a visually engaging tech platform to bring a fun, high-quality and personalised learning experience into every child’s home.
We combine exceptional teacher-made content with cutting-edge technology to provide fantastic affordable education to all children globally, regardless of background.
We’re one of Europe’s fastest-growing EdTech startups. Last year we improved the standard of education for over 200,000 students across the UK and Asia. This year, supported by our recent $25m investment from SoftBank, our goal is to reach 560,000 students.
We’re remote-first! While our main office is in London, our team is composed of over 120 people (and counting) working from 10 countries.
Atom Learning's been featured in Otta’s Annual Rocket List: the 100 fastest-growing companies to work for!
The role
Atom Learning is looking for a Junior/Mid Product Designer to join the design team!
You will work closely with the product and tech teams as well as the founders to ensure the design and interface of our web apps and communications reflect the quality of the underlying product.
You will work in an agile environment rapidly prototyping and wire-framing new features and designs.
Experience is important, but we’re looking for a person with the right mindset: proactive, motivated, design-lover and a team player.
What you will do:
- You will develop wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups to effectively conceptualise and communicate high-level design strategies and detailed interaction behaviours.
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams to help define feature requirements.
- You will be part of a cross-functional team, with its own rituals. Plus you’ll be part of the Product Design team who you can rely on to share and collect feedback.
- You will provide thought leadership in architecting short and long term vision for the education experience.
- You will lead by example to contribute to a positive product design team culture.
- As an active contributor in the Product and Design team, you will share approaches and ideas to improve ways of working.
- Aim for the top. Help elevate product to the next stage of excellence from a UI/UX perspective. Help us compete with the best!
Who you are:
- You LOVE being a designer and aim for pixel perfect design.
- An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating a history of creating customer-focused, simple and intuitive end to end designs from product discovery to continuous improvements.
- Proficiency using the latest design tools, including Figma and user testing tools.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with an ability to present to and influence other designers, PMs, engineers and senior management.
- Ability to define and drive your roadmap and requirements to reach your goals, with input from managers and other leaders.
- Ability to drive usability research to test design concepts with customers.
- Experience working on design projects in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team including designers, product managers, and software developers.
- Experience working within a fast paced, agile environment.
- Familiarity with research methodologies and turning customer feedback into actionable findings.
- Experience designing responsive websites and apps (mobile, tablet, desktop).
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays;
- 3 days winter leave;
- Remote-first culture with the option to use our Holborn office;
- Annual L&D budget;
- Private medical with Vitality Health;
- EMI options available;
- Access to wellbeing platform;
- Competitive pay;
- Enhanced family leave;
- Monthly remote and in person events in London;
- High degree of autonomy and exposure to the running of all business areas of a successful startup;
- Brilliant colleagues and the opportunity to become an integral member of a fast-growing tech company.
At Atom Learning, diversity, equity and inclusion are essential parts of our mission. We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages and supports voices from a diverse range of backgrounds. We know it fuels our creativity and brings us closer towards democratising education for children of all backgrounds
To achieve this, we commit to fostering an environment where everyone is valued and supported for who they are and in which individual differences and the contributions of all our staff are recognised and protected. We work to ensure that our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on skills and competencies and that we actively seek talent from all sections of society
