LearnStreet is a Khosla Ventures portfolio company located in San Francisco. It's our labor of love: we are dedicated to revolutionizing the way people of all levels learn to code to gain the skills required to land their dream job or build the next great app. Our team is a passionate and diverse group of individuals from companies such as Zynga, CNET Networks, Pixar, Google and CK-12. We are looking for rock star developers, engineers, product managers and UI designers to join us:
As part of our hypothesis driven, analytical approach to our product, we are looking for a rock star
Head of Product to join our team. The person will own all aspects of product management for the company
including the product strategy + roadmap.
Reporting to the CEO, the successful candidate will be hands on, data driven and extremely detail oriented.
We use a hypothesis driven approach that focuses on launching MVP versions of features and then analyzing
the data to rapidly test and iterate.
As LearnStreet’s Content Architect, first and foremost you should love teaching. You will lead the overall design and structure of our educational content. You will establish the educational content standards for all of LearnStreet -- which includes conceiving of and developing your own learning content in addition to guiding and directing the learning content contributions of other LearnStreet employees and faculty.
Collaborating with fellow team experts in user experience, product design, and product development, you will also be responsible for establishing the LearnStreet pedagogy, designing LearnStreet instruction so that it can build upon itself to help students solve ever more diverse and complex technical problems. You will also conceptually design our learning programs to address different desired student outcomes.
Collaborating with fellow team experts in user experience, product design, and software engineering, you will be responsible for leading the development of LearnStreet’s innovative user interface for Web, mobile, and third-party applications.
The ideal candidate will be highly proficient in Javascript/jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3. They will have created or used UI frameworks and standards in their previous roles to make themselves and the teams around them more consistent, efficient, and error-free. They will enjoy the challenges of developing simple-but-effective user-centric interfaces around entirely new online experiences and workflows.
Collaborating with fellow team experts in user experience, product design, and software engineering, you will be responsible for the technical excellence, scalability, and overall organizational effectiveness of the LearnStreet platform. Leveraging your problem-solving, technical architecture, design, and software development skills, you will lead the evolution of the LearnStreet platform to help define the future standards of technology education.
In this role, you will help create intuitive, usable and visually appealing user interfaces for online programming education. As part of the product development team, you will help define user models and interfaces for new and existing LearnStreet products and features, develop storyboards and mockups to communicate design ideas, assess the usability of new and existing products, and make constructive suggestions for changes. Background in interaction design is helpful.
