Product Designer (Growth)

Lift Ventures, a remote-first startup studio whose portfolio of businesses has reached over 250 million consumers to date, is seeking a seasoned and talented Product Designer for our Growth squad at SuperSummary.com, our fast-growing EdTech business. SuperSummary is a subscription-based website offering a library of professionally written study guides and other educational resources on thousands of books for students, teachers, and readers of all types.

Over the last few years, we’ve built a market and user research process that has unearthed many product improvement insights (often through A/B testing and experimentation) and driven rapid growth. In this next phase, as the number of product innovation ideas increases, we are looking for a talented Product Designer to continue to promote success through well-informed, well-executed product design that improves and enhances the user experience.

As a Product Designer focused on growth at SuperSummary, you will be instrumental in accelerating our growth rate through comprehensive research, conversion funnel optimization, experimentation and exceptional design.  As a member of our design team, you will be part of creating exceptional digital products for our users. You will be able to collaborate on the future of the experience on our digital platforms. You will have the opportunity to acquire and evolve your user research and design skills, which will help us build the brand and create effective and aesthetically pleasing products.  This is a unique opportunity to be a key player on our design team and work closely with our product managers, engineers and leadership team throughout the entire product life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Teams: Support in the creation of design solutions that align with the product vision, collaborating closely with product managers and developers to ensure consistency and quality.\
• Focus on Growth: Create prototypes and visual concepts for A/B testing and UX experiments with a focus on optimizing key metrics (CRO, LTV, CAC). Quickly iterate on designs based on quantitative and qualitative data, such as user research, A/B tests, heatmaps, and analytics.
• User Research and Insights Gathering: Participate in user research sessions, helping to gather insights and feedback to inform design decisions.
• Wireframing and Prototyping: Create low-fidelity wireframes and interactive prototypes to explore design solutions. Iterate designs based on feedback from stakeholders and users.
• Usability Testing: Plan and execution of usability tests, analyzing the results to identify areas for improvement in the product’s design.
  
• Design Documentation: Maintain and update design documentation, including style guides and design system components, ensuring that design specifications are clear and accessible for the development team.
• Support Design Operations: Contribute to the organization of design resources and help streamline design processes within the team.
  

Sample Projects

• Redesign onboarding flows and interactive tutorials to help new users quickly understand the value of the platform

• Redesign registration, checkout or conversion pages to reduce friction and increase the completion rate

• Conduct a heuristic study to identify areas of improvement in an existing experience

• Lead a project to design a new feature in our study guide page

• Gather information from interviews and data to create research reports and support the team in project decisions