Senior Product Designer

Client: EdTech

Title: Senior Product Designer (UI Focus)

Duration: Long Term Contract (3 – 4 Years)

Location: 100% Remote

Job Description:

About the Opportunity

·        As a Senior Product Designer, you are a highly skilled, thoughtful, and user-centered practitioner with a passion for designing products and experiences that meet real user needs.

·        You will facilitate product discovery, shape design strategy, and guide solutions from concept through delivery.

·        You will work across one or more cross-functional teams and products, helping to connect the dots between research, design, engineering, and company mission.

·        You are confident working independently on features, while also seeking feedback and alignment with teammates and design leadership.

·        You are an advocate for users and inclusive design.

·        As a creative problem solver, you identify patterns across large systems and balance the big picture with hands-on execution—bringing clarity to complex challenges while staying focused on impact.

·        Your responsibilities will span early-stage discovery, end-to-end product design, usability testing, accessibility, and the creation of design artifacts that support high-quality implementation.

·        You will also contribute to our design culture through mentorship, continuous learning, and collaborative design practices.

In this role, your responsibilities include:

Product Discovery and Design Strategy (30%)

·        Design Thinking. Apply design thinking within complex education ecosystems to deeply understand user needs, reframe complex problems, and drive the creation of intuitive, scalable, and human-centered product solutions.

·        Research. Constantly conduct and synthesize generative, formative, and evaluative research, using methods such as user interviews, usability testing, and surveys.

·        Design with Users. Facilitate workshops and co-creation sessions to align teams and uncover opportunities.

·        Data into Insights. Turn user, behavioral, and operational data into actionable insights.

·        Prioritization. Influence prioritization and road-mapping efforts by connecting user needs with business goals and mission.

·        User Advocacy. Champion human-centered and inclusive design principles.

·        Storytelling. Use strategic storytelling to communicate vision, value, and direction.

Design Execution and Delivery (40%)

·        Product Design. Work closely with product and engineering teams to translate concepts into detailed, production-ready designs, creating artifacts such as user flows, sitemaps, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI design.

·        Design Systems. Apply and contribute to design systems, ensuring visual and functional consistency

·        Plain Language. Write and test content using plain language for clarity and accessibility

·        Testing. Conduct usability tests, user research and A/B tests to validate design decisions.

·        Accessibility. Perform accessibility audits to meet inclusive design standards.

·        Responsive Design. Design for responsive, mobile-first experiences, and mobile apps, experience with iOS and Android Native systems is a plus.

·        Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence. Leverage AI tools proficiently to accelerate wireframing, rapid prototyping, and design exploration, and use AI as an active thought partner throughout the design process.

·        Tools. Use tools like Figma, Miro, Zeplin, Lyssna, Dscout to design and document work.

Collaboration and Communication (20%)

·        Collaborate. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, researchers, leadership, and other stakeholders. throughout the design and development process.

·        Ceremonies. Participate in standups, sprint planning, design reviews, design critiques, and QA cycles.

·        Specifications. Translate design decisions into clear specifications for implementation.

·        Presenting. Present ideas, research findings, and designs with confidence and clarity.

·        Design Operations. Contribute to company-wide design efforts, including shared tools, systems, and templates.

Growth and Culture (10%)

·        Teaching. Mentor junior designers or peers through pairing and feedback.

·        Continuous Learning. Continuously invest in personal development and share emerging tools, trends, and provocations.

·        Organizational Support. Support design education efforts such as lunch & learns, design critiques, and by contributing to internal documentation.

·        Hiring. Participate in hiring and onboarding activities.

About You

·        A portfolio of your work included in your application.

·        A Bachelor’s degree in a related field (interaction design, HCI, industrial design, information science, social sciences, computer science, graphic design, etc.) and/or equivalent years of work experience.

·        5–7 years of experience in product or service design.

·        Experience designing complex, data-heavy dashboards—ideally in fintech, edtech, health tech, or enterprise SaaS—focused on usability and clarity.

·        Skilled in leading focus groups, interviews, and usability testing, with a track record of turning insights into actionable product decisions.

·        Takes initiative in driving design projects, actively seeks feedback, and communicates clearly across teams to align vision and execution.

·        A product design mindset and experience designing for complex, content-rich websites and applications, including strong skills in creating and communicating design artifacts, such as user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs.

·        Proficiency in design thinking and human-centered methodologies, with the ability to reframe challenges and translate insights into actionable design direction.

·        Strong skills in information design, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI design, with fluency in tools like Figma, Zeplin, Dscout, Lyssna.

·        A strong understanding of design systems, responsive design, and accessibility standards, including designing for web and native mobile platforms.

·        Comfortable discussing technical constraints and collaborating with engineers to ensure design feasibility (experience with front-end technologies is a plus).

·        A commitment to inclusive, ethical, and user-centered design, with the ability to write and test content using plain language principles.

·        Curiosity and adaptability—you''re self-motivated, continuously learning, and excited by emerging tools and trends; you are proficient with AI tools and actively use them to accelerate wireframing, prototyping, and design thinking.