Staff Product Designer, ClassDojo
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$148-214k
Salary dependent on location
Communication app for primary schools
Open for applications
Communication app for primary schools
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$148-214k
Salary dependent on location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give every kid on Earth an education they love by enabling teachers to build students' confidence, encouraging them to become lifelong learners.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 10 years of consumer product design experience
Desirable
- You have product discovery experience
- You have experience rapidly researching, discovering, prototyping and ultimately delivering high quality consumer products, as part of a cross-functional team
- You can share many shining examples of real work you've shipped, and what you learned along the way
- Your design process is holistic, and includes user research, gathering data-driven insights, rigorous testing and rapid iteration
- You love doing rapid, user-centric product discovery, and you have high standards (our product discovery teams aim for 5+ iterations per week)
- You have product thinking
- You thrive best when helping identify and refine problems to solve
- You facilitate and draw the best design ideas from teammates
- You have the ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision (not just 'how it should look' but 'what we should build’)
- You can think and talk about the bottom line
- Evaluation does't scare you, and you know which features can act as multipliers on your company’s business model
- You want to contribute to high-level informed choices with the rest of the product and executive teams
- You have cross-platform experience
- You’ve shipped great experiences across several platforms
- You know what translates from desktop and what doesn’t, or why you’d opt for one solution for iOS and another on Android
- You have strong communication skills
- You possess excellent communication skills: you are able to clearly articulate your design choices
- You like sharing your work, even if it’s still in progress, to bring the team along with you
- You have a sharp ambiguity filter, always seeking to clarify what is unclear for yourself and others
- You have excellent craftsmanship
- You know that design doesn’t end after you've shipped
- You perpetually work with cross-functional teams to ensure our products maintain and deepen product-market fit with our users
- You give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise our bar for quality
- You have strong technical skills
- You’re a prolific designer with relevant work that you’re happy to share and discuss with us
- You're familiar with common microinteractions in use (on mobile, web, desktop, etc), and have nuanced views on how to make many of them even better
What the job involves
- As a Staff Product Designer at Classdojo, you'll be embedded with a team of engineers, researchers, product managers, and other cross-functional teammates
- You will be involved in every aspect of the product development process, from conception through launch and scale, working on both strategy and tactics to create products that teachers, kids and families love
- You'll turn research insights and product strategy into simple, elegant, emotive products that people want and love to use
- You'll optimize for learning each step of the way by exploring divergent directions, rapidly testing them with users, and converging on feasible, innovative products people love
Our take
ClassDojo started as a classroom management tool, which teachers can use to reward and influence good conduct at school. Beyond this, it has grown into a communication platform for teachers, students and their families, used by 95% of schools in the US, with a total of over 51 million users worldwide.
ClassDojo has had an interesting journey since its 2011 launch, growing steadily but struggling to turn a profit for almost a decade. However, the launch of its monetized communication app and tripled revenue as online learning became the norm during the pandemic propelled ClassDojo to success.
This success has led to significant venture capital investment, which is intended to evolve the company once more, from a communication app into an extracurricular learning platform and creative space for current ClassDojo users. The size and loyalty of ClassDojo’s user base, as well as the company’s sure-footed survival and growth over the last decade led to the company acquiring Y Combinator graduates Prendea in 2022, expanding its operations into Latin America and solidifying a promising future for the company.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2022
$125m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $346.1m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Trust > Control
- Collaboration > Parallelism
- Candor > Harmony
- Learning > Certainty
- Results > Effort
- Finishing > Starting
- Humanity > Heroism
- Shared Ownership > Specialization
- Continuous Improvement > Continuous Production
- Failure Recovery > Failure Avoidance
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Sam Chaudhary
(CEO)A Cambridge graduate and Y Combinator alumnus. Was a Business Analyst at McKinsey and worked in Product at OneFineStay.
Liam Don
(President)Studied Computer Science at Durham University. Worked as a Games Developer at Jagex and researched Technology Enhanced Learning at Durham.
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