Design and User Experience Teaching Assistant at Skillcrush

Title: Design and UX Teaching Assistant

• Location: Remote, International or New York
• Operations

Skillcrush is looking for a junior designer to join our team as a Design & UX Teaching Assistant (TA).

As a Teaching Assistant, it’ll be your job to give students the crucial feedback they need to sharpen their design and user experience skills. You’ll teach them how to concisely talk about their work, iterate based on feedback, and give constructive criticism to their classmates. This means responding to their questions in a timely manner, hosting live video Q&As, helping to build engagement in our online community, and just generally being their biggest cheerleader. 🙂

This job could be right for you if you’re a junior designer/UX designer with great communication skills who cares about making technology education more fun, accessible, and personal.

You should be able to work 20 hours/week, preferably mostly evenings and weekends in the U.S. time zone equivalents since students mainly need support outside of business hours, so that’s when we’ll need you most!

Requirements:

• A portfolio of work displaying your ability to design websites
• Experience with journey maps, user flows, and usability testing
• Strong understanding of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign—You can design business cards or website comps without breaking a sweat!
• Understanding of Figma or another wire framing & prototyping tool
• Understanding of best practices regarding wireframes, prototyping, icons, and logo design
• Knowledge of design thinking methodology and UX process and tools
• Ability to give constructive feedback and motivate students as they work on assignments
• Top-notch communication skills (written and verbal)
• Evening and weekend availability in U.S. time zone equivalents
• Lots of patience!

Bonuses:

• Experience working as a freelance designer
• Experience doing UX research, conducting user tests, and iterating on feedback
• Understanding of digital marketing best practices, including SEO
• Web development skills, such as HTML & CSS, Git and GitHub, etc.
• Experience teaching, preferably online or in technology
• Experience working remotely

Responsibilities:

• Answer student questions about UX and visual design in our Slack student community and via email
• Provide weekly live support to students via Zoom video calls
• Give students personalized feedback on their coursework
• Facilitate engagement in our student community
• Attend weekly team meetings and be an active member of our scrum team
• Improve the student experience by identifying and addressing improvements to class material

Salary

• At Skillcrush, we use a set of transparent salary tiers to level all roles.
• The salary for this role is $26/hour.

Benefits & Perks

• Fully remote work
• Fully covered health insurance for you and subsidized insurance for your partner and dependents, uncovered dental and vision insurance, and FSA for medical and childcare (available for American citizens)
• Up to sixteen weeks of unpaid parental leave for each new child in your family
• 401(k) plan with 4% match and no vesting time (available for American citizens)
• Professional development stipend
• Monthly coworking or childcare stipend
• Free access to all the Skill crush classes
• A fun, passionate team working from all over the world

About Skillcrush

Skillcrush is an online tech education company that offers online classes in a variety of technical subjects. Our mission is to empower women with the skills they need to enter higher-earning, more flexible, and creatively fulfilling careers in tech.

At Skillcrush, we’ve built an open and cooperative learning and working environment. We want to hire the best person for the job, including people who think differently than us and challenge the status quo. We empower our team members, giving them the support and the autonomy they need to succeed. We embrace data to make decisions and overcome obstacles. We do what we do well, but we’re also always looking to do it better.

Skillcrush is a fully remote company, and we welcome applicants from all over the world. We’re an equal opportunity employer, and we evaluate applicants regardless of their race, race, color, religion, national origin (or current location), gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or family status. We believe a diverse team creates a better experience for our students, a better place to work at, and a better world to live in!

We’re committed to becoming an actively anti-racist online tech education company that works against racism in all facets, internal AND external to our organization.

How to Apply

We want to make sure your application gets the consideration it deserves. This means we can only accept applications via the link below. Please do not send application materials or follow-ups to Skillcrush or team members via email or social media.

We’ll respond to every application submitted via this form. You’ll hear from us about the position once we’ve reviewed all applications.