Contractor

Newsela is seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Latin America for Director of Product Design Services.

Scope of Services:

• As a Contractor for Director, Product Design services you will own the strategy and vision for design across our products.
• You will motivate and develop a high-performing design team while fostering an environment for helping others learn and grow.
• You are able to have difficult conversations and you will coach and mentor team members by providing effective performance feedback to improve and develop optimum performance through day-to-day design challenges.
• You will produce non-obvious user experience insights to create innovative designs and identify ways to improve the user experience both visually and by measurable user outcomes.
• You will independently produce, deliver, and validate high-quality end-to-end product(s), with a focus on ideating short-term design strategies and features with our product team that balances strategic business goals with the needs of clients.
• You will collaborate with core team members to introduce new product features and create a better user experience based on user feedback.
• You will partner closely...