About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Product Designer based in United States.
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end user flows, navigation structures, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, and specifications across the learning platform.
- Own the product design system, including interaction patterns, reusable components, standards, and guidelines.
- Conduct lightweight product discovery by speaking with students, staff, and internal stakeholders.
- Partner with product managers to translate prioritized initiatives into engineer-ready designs.
- Collaborate closely with engineers throughout development.
- Identify and redesign platform areas that lack dedicated product ownership, including accounts, onboarding, and navigation.
- Contribute to student-facing career experiences, personalized learning journeys, skills tracking, and AI-powered tutoring, coaching, and grading tools.
- Direct and provide design guidance to a UI design contractor.
- Communicate design rationale, decisions, and recommendations to stakeholders.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience designing web products end-to-end.
- Strong information architecture and interaction design skills.
- Experience conducting user and stakeholder discovery independently.
- Experience building and owning a design system.
- Strong proficiency with Figma or a comparable design tool.
- Working knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and Tailwind.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience designing for education, marketplaces, or data-intensive products is preferred.
- Experience as a first or early design hire is a plus.
- Familiarity with AI and LLM-powered features is a plus.
Conditions
- Annual salary of $148,000–$190,000 for U.S.-based applicants.
- Location-adjusted compensation for applicants based in Canada, LATAM, and Europe.
- Full-time remote work.
- High level of ownership as the first senior product design hire.
- Opportunity to shape a design system and establish product design standards from the ground up.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States, Canada, LATAM, or Europe.