Design Manager
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ELSA, Corp
San Francisco, CA, US
Summary
Lead and grow a high-performing team of product, visual, and brand designers to shape the user experience across mobile, web, and marketing channels. Establish strategic design direction and maintain design system consistency through collaboration with cross-functional leadership.
Job Description
Team: Product Design
About ELSA:
ELSA (English Language Speech Assistant) is an AI-powered app that helps language learners improve pronunciation and communication skills. With over 50 million users globally, we are on a mission to unlock opportunities for the world through better English.
About the role:
Were seeking a Design Manager to lead our product and brand design functions. This role will shape the future of how learners experience ELSA balancing strategic vision, creative direction, and design execution across mobile, web, and marketing channels.
What you'll be doing:
- Lead and grow a high-performing design team (product, visual, and brand designers)
- Set the strategic design direction across all touch-points (product UI/UX, brand identity, campaigns)
- Collaborate with product, engineering, marketing, and executive leadership to build delightful and effective user experiences
- Champion a user-centered approach to design backed by research and data
- Drive design system consistency and evolution
- Roll up your sleeves when needed to push the creative bar across key initiatives
What Were Looking For:
- 8+ years of design experience, with 3+ years in design leadership roles
- A strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design and brand work
- Proven success in managing and mentoring designers
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and storytelling skills
- Experience working in consumer tech or edtech is a plus
- Fluency in Figma, prototyping tools, and design systems best practices
Why Join ELSA:
- Be part of a mission-driven team making a global impact
- Competitive salary, stock options, and benefits
- International, collaborative work environment
- Flexibility to work remotely.
Together with a very talented team of speech recognition scientists and linguistic experts, we created ELSA (English Language Speech Assistant), one of the smartest A.I. assistant for pronunciation training and accent reduction. Our vision is to enable the 1.5 billion language learners around the globe to speak foreign languages with full confidence and unlock their opportunities in life.
Our flagship product, ELSA Speak, is a personal virtual pronunciation coach. ELSA can listen to you speak English, pick out the exact errors as you speak at an individual sound level or intonation, rhythm, and pitch. ELSA will then give you instant feedback and recommendations on how to fix those errors. All these feedback are fully automated using our proprietary speech recognition technology based on deep-learning algorithm.
Our recent accomplishments:
- “The Best Digital Learning App” at Reimagine Education 2016
- The 2016 winner of the world’s largest startup competition SXSWEdu Launch
- Honorable Mention: Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards, 2020
- GSV Edtech 150, CBInsights AI 100, 2020 & 2021
- Recognized as Top 5 Best Artificial Intelligence Apps (by Research Sniper); and Top 4 Companies Using AI To Transform The World (by Forbes)
- 50+ million users across 200+ countries
- Invested by Gradient Ventures - Google’s A.I. fund
For career opportunities, please visit https://elsaspeak.com/careers
Founded
2015
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
E-Learning Providers
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Los Gatos, California
Together with a very talented team of speech recognition scientists and linguistic experts, we created ELSA (English Language Speech Assistant), one of the smartest A.I. assistant for pronunciation training and accent reduction. Our vision is to enable the 1.5 billion language learners around the globe to speak foreign languages with full confidence and unlock their opportunities in life.
Our flagship product, ELSA Speak, is a personal virtual pronunciation coach. ELSA can listen to you speak English, pick out the exact errors as you speak at an individual sound level or intonation, rhythm, and pitch. ELSA will then give you instant feedback and recommendations on how to fix those errors. All these feedback are fully automated using our proprietary speech recognition technology based on deep-learning algorithm.
Our recent accomplishments:
- “The Best Digital Learning App” at Reimagine Education 2016
- The 2016 winner of the world’s largest startup competition SXSWEdu Launch
- Honorable Mention: Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards, 2020
- GSV Edtech 150, CBInsights AI 100, 2020 & 2021
- Recognized as Top 5 Best Artificial Intelligence Apps (by Research Sniper); and Top 4 Companies Using AI To Transform The World (by Forbes)
- 50+ million users across 200+ countries
- Invested by Gradient Ventures - Google’s A.I. fund
For career opportunities, please visit https://elsaspeak.com/careers
Founded
2015
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
E-Learning Providers
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Los Gatos, California