Last update 21-03-2022
This position is only meant for direct candidates, solicitation by employment agencies will not be accepted.
At aNewSpring, we are looking for a Design Lead. Your mission is to take the experience within our application, but also the design team itself, to the next level.
Are you an experienced designer looking for a new challenge? Are you a real leader ‘who leads by example’? Do you get excited about creating beautiful user experiences? Did you just say “yes” three times to your screen (and now a fourth time)? Then read on, because then we are probably looking for you.
At aNewSpring, we do everything we can to make learning fun and effective. Our software for professional educators helps them create beautiful, effective and varied Learning Journeys. We work with a no-nonsense approach and believe in open, positive and respectful collaboration.
This approach allows us to continuously improve and offer our customers a better experience. And it also leads to super happy employees. How do we know? We ask them how they experience their work and what we can improve on a weekly basis. And we actually act on their suggestions.
We’ve grown from a small start-up to a fast-growing SaaS company over the past ten years, with thousands of customers and even more satisfied students. We are a Dutch company, based in Rotterdam, with offices and partners in our main regions (UK, Australia and South Africa).
Your mission is to work with your team to ensure that everything that is added or changed to the UI and UX of aNewSpring is top-notch. The look and feel, usability and accessibility should all contribute to an inspiring and pleasant online environment to work and learn in.
By translating the objectives and projects on the roadmap into detailed designs, you and your team work together with the developers to constantly bring the aNewSpring platform and app to the next level.
As a Design Lead, you will be responsible for coaching, training, expanding and improving the design team. The three designers in the team are eager to get to work with an experienced colleague with new insights.
You and your team ensure that the roadmap is translated into validated, executable, high quality designs that our developers are eager to sink their teeth into. You not only like to talk about design but you also can’t stay away from it yourself. Within this role, we are looking for a designer who, in addition to being the team lead, is also a designer at heart and can’t help but contribute in that area.
You will be an important part of the development process. You are in close contact with the product manager, developers, QA and designers and other colleagues but of course the end user itself is central in everything you do. You know how to reach them and involve them in the design and validation process.
You also keep an eye on the market and the design world, and take what you learn there to your team and into your own designs. With all this, you build a vision of what the platform should look like, and what kind of team and people you think you need to get this done in the best possible way.
As a result of your and your team’s work, the aNewSpring platform is and will always be a joy to work and to learn in.
You’re an experienced designer who’s allergic to a bad interface. Aside from that, you are a leader and coach who gets energy from educating and inspiring other designers. You love tackling cool projects, dissecting complex interfaces and solving design puzzles. You prefer to do this with other creatives, and know how to get good ideas and insights from everyone through user testing and creative sessions.
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Do you recognize yourself in (most of) these points? Let’s talk!
No worries. Online training is our core business remember?
We have built our systems and processes entirely on remote working. We have a ‘Preboarding Learning Journey’ about our culture and methods. Plus an online onboarding programme which we complete together.
Take Hilde, who started with us in October 2020 as our Campaign Marketeer: “When Covid took off for a second spin, I started working at aNewSpring. So I was onboarded completely from home and got to know the organisation like that.
The onboarding went very well, help was offered on many sides and everyone takes the time to help you grow. I was consciously sought out and everyone shared their enthusiasm about the organisation and worked extremely hard on a beautiful platform.
After the induction period, colleagues are happy to help. For me it feels like a warm bath and I think it speaks for the organisation that you get a lot of appreciation for the work you do. Everyone is deemed important and you really feel that. The atmosphere in the company is very inviting and friendly!”
Share your cv and motivation letter with Natasja Vuik, our HR representative, by sending it to work@anewspring.nl with the subject: “Application Design Lead”.
Great, you’ve decided to apply! What is next…?
Within three working days you will receive a confirmation of your application by email. Sometimes even within half an hour, but we cannot guarantee this (we can guarantee three days). In that email our standard application procedure is further explained.
And, a condition for being hired is a positive Statement of Conduct (Verklaring Omtrent het Gedrag) by the Dutch Dept. of Justice.
Intermediaries are asked not to respond to this vacancy.
During our weekly ‘Power Hour’ we share our designs and give each other feedback. This helps everybody improve their designs and increases the consistency throughout our platform!
In the design team, we are always working together in a fun way to bring both the product and the processes around it to the next level. Besides that, aNewSpring always gives me the freedom to further explore my field and the possibility to grow in it. This suits me and the culture we have within aNewSpring.
