Senior Product Designer
Location: Nairobi
Location: Nairobi
Reports to: Vice President of Engineering
About Bridge International
About Bridge International
With that guiding insight, Bridge International developed a
strategy that would enable it to launch a large-scale network of high-quality,
ultra low-cost, for-profit primary schools.
Operating a network of schools supported by a strong central
headquarters gives Bridge International the scale, experience, and capacity to
invest in systems of management, support, training, and innovation that allows
individual schools to dramatically increase their effectiveness.
Using this model, Bridge International is able to profitably
deliver high-quality education for $4 per child per month. This ensures
that its academies will continue to successfully serve its communities as long
as parents value the educational service provided.
The first Bridge International Academy launched successfully in
Kenya in 2009 and over 70 academies are operating in Kenya today. Through
rapid and strategic expansion, Bridge International will provide a quality
education to over a million students in the coming years.
We have and are continuing to develop one of the most
sophisticated operational approaches to providing affordable education to
MILLIONS of children in one of the most challenging environments in the
world!
Our success relies on our “School in a Box”, a sophisticated set
of custom developed systems, tools and processes (think McDonalds or Starbucks)
that are used by all Academy Managers, as well as by support teams at
headquarters to audit, monitor and support all of our academies.
While the end-user technology at the academy is limited to paper
and a smartphone, all of our systems and processes are underpinned by a
sophisticated set of supporting and enabling technologies that allows schools
to operate cost effectively and efficiently, with oversight by headquarters.
About this position:
The Senior Product Designer wil be responsible to design innovative new systems, tools and processes that significantly improve operations at our schools and throughout the company, and improve educational outcomes for students attending the schools.
About this position:
The Senior Product Designer wil be responsible to design innovative new systems, tools and processes that significantly improve operations at our schools and throughout the company, and improve educational outcomes for students attending the schools.
To ensure that IT systems developed by the technology team
successfully address real user and business needs.
Responsibilities (Functions and duties):
Responsibilities (Functions and duties):
- Manage product design and innovation
processes for the company
- Manage, train and mentor the team of
product designers, while still spending a significant amount of time doing
design work on our most difficult problems
- Think creatively to generate design
solutions that best address business problems
- Create and support a human-centred
design process that addresses the needs of different departments within
the company (e.g. operations, curriculum, procurement)
- Plan and conduct brainstorming,
requirements gathering and design review workshops
- Plan and conduct primary research
studies (e.g. interviews, focus groups) designed to understand user needs
- Develop wireframes and prototypes
(both static and interactive) for sharing with company stakeholders and
end users
- Plan and conduct studies to evaluate
new ideas (e.g. participatory design, design walkthroughs, pilot studies)
- Review workflows, user interaction and
user interfaces for new and existing systems and recommend improvements
- Follow new developments in technology
and come up with creative uses of technology to solve business problems
- Contribute to overall IT strategy of
the company
- Advocate for the adoption of
user-centred design throughout the company
Experience:
- 5 years experience in product design,
preferably at a leading product design firm
Qualifications:
Academic: Bachelor’s degree in Product Design
Specialist knowledge required:
Academic: Bachelor’s degree in Product Design
Specialist knowledge required:
- Experience designing products to solve
real-world problems from research and conception through development and
deployment
- Expert knowledge in human factors,
human computer interaction, user interface design and user interaction
design
- Experience with interaction design of
software systems, particularly for mobile devices
- Ability to design creative solutions
given significant constraints such as very low cost, lack of power, and a
non-technical user base
- Ability to understand and design
complex systems, particularly enterprise software
- Experience leading teams through
brainstorms / innovation sessions / workshops
- Experience with qualitative (and
ideally also quantitative) user research
Behavioural
Competencies:
- Creativity and “out of the box”
thinking
- Planning and organising skills
- Leadership skills
- Analytical skills
- Writing and oral communication skills
- Ability to be adaptable and flexible
In order to be
considered for this position all candidates must register and upload their CV’s
on our website atwww.bridgeinternationalacademies.com
Only short listed candidates will be contacted
Only short listed candidates will be contacted
