Product Designer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Gain insights into user workflows, objectives, challenges, and priorities through discussions, support feedback, research, and usage analytics.

• Create user flow maps, designs, and prototypes using Figma.

• Determine user-role requirements, permissions, empty states, errors, and edge cases.

• Develop clear layouts, hierarchy, responsive behaviors, and accessible interactions.

• Compose labels, instructions, warnings, and confirmation messages.

• Utilize established design-system components and recognize when new patterns are necessary.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure Figma designs align with the final product implementation.

• Explore various design alternatives, articulate trade-offs, and consider technical limitations.

• Define the scope and select practical methods for the team to execute.

• Document intended functionalities, edge cases, and design decisions for implementation and review.

• Actively seek feedback early in the process and integrate critiques.

• Assess implementations, pinpoint confusing or malfunctioning interactions, and assist in their resolution.

• Observe actual product usage and incorporate findings into future design considerations.

• Work together with another designer, engineers, product leadership, and technology leaders.

• Take ownership of design choices while product leadership focuses on prioritization, roadmap commitments, and business objectives.

⛳️ Requirements

• A portfolio showcasing 1–2 relevant software design projects.

• Examples that illustrate your contributions, reasoning, and capacity to utilize feedback effectively.

• A portfolio displaying interaction design, visual clarity, and thoughtful management of complex workflows.

• Proficiency in Figma, including knowledge of components and prototyping.

• A willingness to enhance skills within a well-established design system.

• Familiarity with accessibility standards and responsive web design principles.

• Ability to identify gaps in information, pose relevant questions, and make reasonable advancements amidst uncertainty.

• Strong written communication skills and the ability to articulate design decisions to individuals from diverse backgrounds.

• Capability to communicate progress, inquiries, and obstacles effectively and follow through in a distributed team setting.

• For seasoned candidates, experience with shipped work and collaboration with engineers is required.

• For senior candidates, evidence of defining ambiguous problems, enhancing patterns across multiple workflows, and assisting teammates in making stronger design decisions is essential.

• Experience with educational software, intricate business applications, user research, or mobile web experiences is advantageous.

• Familiarity with AI tools to enhance design workflows is a plus.

• Willingness to maintain regular working-hour overlap with the team.

• A resume or profile and portfolio are mandatory for application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• Opportunity to collaborate with a distributed team.

• Regular working-hour overlap with team members.

• Ownership of design in partnership with the existing team.

• Guidance and consistent review from an experienced designer for junior designers.

• Collaboration with engineers, product, and technology leadership.

• Participation in a mission-driven company focused on improving education.

• The hiring process includes sharing exercise scope, expected time commitment, and interview details prior to each stage.