Product Designer

Modern Classrooms Project is hiring a Product Designer to shape the end-to-end user experience of its software, prototype key flows, and establish an in-house design system.

Responsibilities

• Refine the end-to-end user experience across teacher, student, and administrator journeys
• Map user journeys to define information architecture and design paths that stay clear as the product grows
• Identify where users get confused, rushed, or stuck, then design improvements into those moments
• Wireframe and prototype before implementation:
  • Create quick wireframes so scope and behavior are debated cheaply before code is shipped
  • Build and validate high-fidelity, clickable prototypes for high-stakes flows
• Build and own the design system:
  • Create and maintain a documented component library
  • Ground components in MCP’s brand and extend for product needs
  • Enable engineers to compose using consistent parts instead of reinventing patterns
• Bring product design efforts in-house:
  • Help establish design best practices to ensure what gets built meets teachers’ and students’ needs
  • Work closely with founders, senior leaders, product managers, and engineering
  • Support the transition from external design partners to an internal design operation

Requirements

• Hands-on execution:
  • Take a flow from wireframe to high-fidelity to clickable prototype
  • Put designs in front of real users to observe struggles and successes
  • Ship pixels, not only opinions
• Systems thinking:
  • Strong understanding of information architecture and design systems
  • Build scalable components using auto-layout, variables, and variants
  • Create high-fidelity clickable prototypes that other designers can easily consume
  • Prevent the product from becoming a maze of nested menus as features pile up
• Research and validation:
  • Run usability tests and learn from watching users work through tasks
  • Curiosity about behavior over defensiveness about designs
• Interface writing:
  • Treat interface copy as part of the design
  • Improve clarity and tone for items like button labels, error messages, and feedback for a struggling 10-year-old
• Ability to design under real-world constraints:
  • Accessibility, color contrast, touch-target sizing, and school-issued devices
  • Account for classroom realities like shaky classroom Wi-Fi
  • Design web apps and learning experiences grounded in cognitive science learning principles
• Motivation to create impact in education and for young people

Technologies

• auto-layout
• variables
• variants
• HTML/CSS/JS
• web apps

Compensation and Benefits

• Salaried position: $130,000-$160,000 gross salary per year
• Employer-sponsored health insurance through CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
• Employer-sponsored dental and vision insurance and ancillary benefits through MetLife
• Participation in Vanguard 403(b) deferred-compensation plan with 3% employer match
• Paid Time Off including vacation/PTO (20 days), paid holidays, paid parental leave, sick and safe paid time off, “Me Days”, and the ability to earn paid Comp time off
• Annual budget for MCP-funded Continuous Learning for requested program(s) (available after 6 months of continuous full-time employment)
• FSA and Dependent Care FSA access
• 1x Salary Life Insurance company-paid coverage
• Access to Wishbone Pet Insurance Benefit
• Ability to work remotely and to set your own hours (within reason)