#kandujobs

Kandu Studios is where kids make stuff together.

We've built a powerful operating system that allows kids to have new kinds of conversations and collaborations with each other. We are hiring a full-time Product Designer to lead a data-driven design initiative on a bold mission to empower kids to build and create using technology in an exciting, interactive, and fun mobile environment.

As the Product Designer, you will be responsible for exploring, defining, and executing Kandu's visual language and experience. It helps if you can think like a kid! You will be expected to break down complex problems into simple, intuitive, and delightful solutions using your full range of product design, interaction design, and visual design skills. You think holistically about your design decisions and thrive in a fast-paced, iterative, and collaborative environment.

Responsibilities:

Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something usable, effective, and fun.

Develop visual assets for products from doodles to wireframes to pixel-perfect graphics and specs.

Design flows and experiences that are simple and intuitive.

Partner with PMs, engineers, researchers, and other team members to guide the user experience of a product or feature from conception through launch.

Work to extend and expand the visual language of our products.

Continually improve design team best practices.

Develop and document design standards, style guides, and build design kits to enable the team to design at scale.

About You:

You relish the idea of creating a place that gives kids the power to make stuff together and believe kid-centric design isn’t just about bright colors and big buttons.

You love digging into the details of visual design and crafting clear interactions while always infusing a bit of personality.

Your visual style has a clear point of view and you can’t help but create cool/quirky characters.

You think of design in terms of systems and can clearly and effectively articulate your design decisions.

You integrate data from research, feedback, and testing into your designs.

You have experience building mobile apps and a passion for taking advantage of the unique affordances mobile devices provide.

You understand the technical limitations and liberties behind your decisions and have enough chops to communicate your ideas to engineers.

You look for opportunities to solve problems in unique and innovative ways.

You love making things beautiful, obsess over details, and are excited to polish until your work is pixel-perfect.

You are comfortable and flexible in a fast-changing, collaborative, agile environment.

Bonus Points:

Experience with 3D, motion, and/or sound design.

Prior mobile game design work.

Development skills to prototype front-end applications in Unity and/or web.

Interest or experience in working on youth-focused products.

If you're an awesome designer, we want to hear from you! Check out our updated job posting here.

Kandu is hiring a full-time UI/UX Product Designer to lead a data-driven design initiative enabling anyone to express themselves by creating native interactive media without writing a single line of code. We are a diverse team of media and technology leaders on a bold mission to create a vibrant maker community around an intuitive, fun tool that creates an endless array of user-generated experiences.

 Our ideal candidate is an open collaborator that can narrow a broader company vision into specific user-driven product narratives. You will work in a fast-paced, nimble environment to ideate, test, and implement designs of user stories. We strive for agility, incorporating historical findings from product data, user testing, and stakeholder feedback into a cohesive feature set that delivers on the promise of Kandu.

 Responsibilities 

Working with product team members to conduct user research and analyze product KPIs

Conducting competitive analysis on feature sets of products that compete for our customers’ time

Collaborating with engineering team to translate research findings into creative, executable design solutions capable of achieving measurable company goals

Creating strategic product alignment between community, product, and engineering teams by communicating insights and rationale behind design decisions

Regularly delivering user interaction flows, wireframes, high fidelity mockups/ prototypes, and visual designs

Drafting fully-baked specifications and UI designs for engineering to implement

Continually improving design team best practices while successfully managing projects

  Nice to haves 

Prior mobile game design work

Front-end development skills to prototype front-end applications in Unity and/or web

Experience designing applications for tablets

Prior experience working on agile development teams

Kandu, a New York City-based startup building a revolutionary creative social platform, seeks an outstanding engineer, fluent in Unity3D and C#, to help build out our product.   

About the Company:

Founded in spring 2013 by a team of proven technology and media innovators, Kandu is building a unique creative tool for building and sharing mobile experiences without knowing how to code. Our mission is to inspire non-coders to become mobile content creators.

 The Ideal Candidate:

Is a talented senior engineer.

Has significant experience with C# and wants to learn and work with Unity3D.

Has experience working in a startup environment and building products from start to finish.

Responsibilities:

Build digital media creation software with Unity3D and C#.

Design implementation approach that fits with the overall product development roadmap.

Communicate with designers to establish pipeline and integrate media assets.

Engage with technical lead on implementation issues and possible software design improvements.

Address bugs and other technical issues identified for subsequent release.

Skills and Experience:

Experience building mobile apps from scratch using Unity3D.

Excellent knowledge of Unity3D and C# scripting, textures, animation, GUI styles, and user session management.

Experience implementing 2D solutions, including GUI and sprites in Unity.

Comfortable using Git with teams.

Naturally motivated to learn and stay current on game developments and standards.

Enjoy the agile development process.

The job is full-time in New York City with highly competitive salary and equity compensation.  

Inspiring people of all ages to be digital creators, Kandu lets anyone make games, apps, and software without any coding experience. Check us out in Pando Daily, TechCrunch, and demo-ing at NY Tech Meetup.

We’re looking for a whip-smart Senior Product Manager to be the right hand to Kandu's Chief Product Officer in guiding the development of Kandu’s revolutionary creation tool. This hire is a key part of our post-financing growth, as we look to add great people to our talented team. 

The Role:

Inform product decisions and project manage the product development process.

Provide informed insights to the Chief Product Officer and the senior team (CEO, CTO) on opportunities for product innovation.

Work hand-in-hand with engineering to find the best ways to implement features.

Keep communication flowing between all stakeholders, in particular Chief Product Officer and Kandu’s CTO.

The Ideal Candidate:

Self starter / independent thinker / a natural at organizing things.

Has experience building mobile and/or social products with gamification elements.

Proactive, spots potential problems early and generates solutions before they manifest.

Fluent in agile and data-driven project management (Jira is a plus).

Able to harness user testing and analytics to inform product development.

Can lead planning processes.

Communicates effectively in writing and in person.

College degree or higher.

The Opportunity:

Working with a great, experienced team with all the funding required to launch and scale a product that can change the world.

Competitive compensation (salary and equity).

Great benefits, flexible work culture.

Chelsea location convenient to all transportation.

This is an amazing opportunity to join a deeply design centric startup in NYC with an exciting vision for a revolutionary tool. We are a small team of makers redefining the way kids and others make software and are looking for the right person to join our team.

The ideal candidate should:

Live and breathe beautiful visuals coupled with elegant UX, and have experience with and interest in simple UI/UX.

Experience designing for iPad, mobile, multitouch devices (iOS design standards and practices.)

Consistently deliver pixel-perfect design, from shadows and highlights on a button in Photoshop, to refining existing icons and logos.

Have the ability to modify and construct solid HTML and CSS. (You should be very comfortable with HTML & CSS, or be able and willing to learn them quickly.)

Obsess over details, like a shadow that should be 3% more transparent.

Have an understanding of typography, iconography, etc.

Create rapid prototypes that communicate design ideas.

Want to be challenged creatively and not afraid of “undefined” specs.

Be enthusiastic about wearing different hats on an interdisciplinary product team. 

You will focus on:

Defining the artistic style and visual aesthetic of new product features and technology.

Producing final assets for the engineering team to build.

Working closely with Head of Product Development to produce final working drawings and prototypes.

Participating in the general branding and identity strategy of the company.

Working with product manager to translate vision into simple and elegant UI.

Seeking to validate any new feature through user data to know if design goal was successful.

If you (or someone you know) think you might be the right person to join our endeavor, we would love to hear from you. Please send us your portfolio and/or examples of previous work, including links to any live apps, a list of tools you use regularly, and your resume to [email protected]