Hi, I’m Ed. A product designer at Teachers Pay Teachers or TpT, as we call it. We are a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Our community brings immediate access to a world of expertise and offers educators more time to focus on students and teaching. The New York Times called the phenomenon we lead
"A Sharing Economy Where Teachers Win”
How did I get here?
Throughout my career, I have had the chance to help entrepreneurs succeed, gave families the comfort of security, turned brands into publishers & helped gamers play from anywhere. In 2016, I decided to join the forefront of education by giving teachers the tools they need to become exceptional at doing what they do best.
What I’ve done so far at TpT
Our approach to problem solving starts like this:
We put teachers at the ❤ of everything we do
We bring in educators from all over the country into our war rooms. They tell us their problems, we listen, we synthesize, we adjust, we serve and we listen some more.
We collect insight from everyone. Data Science, Engineering, Community, Product Management, Accounts, and of course, our educators.
We test and learn our way into the future. We run Design Sprints to brainstorm and test our ideas. Then we do it again, and again until we validate our assumptions.
We use Playground, our design system, to help us design and prototype.
We follow an atomic design approach to help us think modularly in our component-first world.
We analyze. Data flows not just throughout our marketplace, but it’s a core driver for our entire company. We measure, we learn and we iterate.
Also, we’re hiring. Come join the most passionate and supportive
cast in all of education and technology.