About us Storypark creates tools that enable early childhood teachers to deliver high-quality care and learning, and their centres to run super-smoothly. This includes ways to collaboratively document, share, and strengthen the learning and development of children, manage back-office processes swiftly, and boost professional development.
We’re here to make a difference. We’re well established as market leaders in the early childhood online education space in New Zealand and Australia. Reinvesting in the communities we’re a part of is part of who we are — we provide free access to Storypark for families and over 300 centres who work in vulnerable communities. We’re now expanding globally and deepening the impact our products create.
Join the team voted one of the best Kiwi startups and tech companies to work for in 2023 by Matchstiq.io. With our high growth and high impact career opportunities, we care deeply about building something that matters, with people we love to work with.
The opportunityYou'll be joining us at an exciting time, we’re dramatically expanding the capabilities of our product and tackling some gnarly challenges in multiple parts of early childhood education. Product designers at Storypark play a real part in defining our product offering — they work alongside product managers and our UX researcher from the very beginning and are expected to deeply understand customer needs — jointly owning the strategy to meet them.
Our designers get to flex their skills in various parts of the product including both web and mobile, however you can expect to be focused on a single key piece of work, with a single team, for months at a time. Alongside this you will support smaller improvements, spend time extending our design system, and contribute to design practice.
What you'll actually do: - Work alongside our dedicated UX researcher to understand our users’ worlds (yes, we actually invest in research!)
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers from day one to scope and shape solutions
- Wear multiple design hats – from field researcher to interaction designer to UI craftsperson
- Help evolve our front-end patterns and component library
- Write code for UI polish (optional, if that's your thing)
Things we’ve worked on recently: - Building configurable forms for centres to offer online enrolments
- Creating ways for centres to record health and safety incidents
- Adding AI-powered improvements to our story editor
- Reworking fundamental ‘information architecture’ structures in our software
- Allowing teachers to have important child wellbeing information on hand
- Significant extension of our front-end pattern library
We’re looking for someone who: - Can take a complex problem like ‘how do we help centres manage casual bookings?’ and break it down into solvable pieces
- Enjoys figuring out the right problems to solve and can think through multiple scenarios when different centres have different ways of working
- Is comfortable with messy real-world processes, we value good thinking and action over strict methodology
- Has several years demonstrated track record designing software products and knows what it’s like to bring new features to market
- Thinks pragmatically and can balance ideal solutions with constraints — we think there is beauty in this balance
- Communicates clearly and can articulate design decisions or trade-offs
- Can lift up the teams they work with, both professionally and personally
Team and Location You'll be part of our product design team, reporting to our Head of Design based in Wellington. We’re open to someone remote but ideally you’d be Wellington based as we value in person collaboration time. In general, our Wellington team spend at least two days in the office each week.
We’ve partnered with Kin for this opportunity, so if you want to know more before applying we’re happy to chat,– drop Jo a line on
[email protected] Applications close Wednesday 27th November 2024