Product Designer

Timely is building next generation products from the ground up, and this Product Designer role sits within a small, cross-functional team. You will work closely with product, engineering, and leadership to shape new experiences for schools through discovery, design, prototyping, and design system contributions.

This is a Boston, MA onsite position with a compensation range of USD 100,000 - 130,000 per yearly. The work focuses on 0-to-1 product development and turning loosely defined problems into validated design solutions.

What you’ll do

• Partner with product management to decompose problems, surface and weigh options, and define design solutions.
• Lead product discovery using customer interviews, workshops, and collaborative ideation.
• Conceptualize and design user flows and information architecture that support complex administrative workflows.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for web applications.
• Collaborate with engineering to design feasible solutions that reflect technical constraints.
• Support and contribute to the design system, helping maintain a cohesive platform experience.
• Conduct user interviews and usability testing, asking questions that uncover hidden assumptions and enable innovative discoveries.
• Prototype and validate ideas quickly before full development cycles begin.

What you bring

• Experience in Product Design or Design Engineering in a B2B SaaS business or adjacent environment.
• Strong design thinking, facilitation, and user research skills.
• Experience using design tools such as Figma (or other tools) to craft and communicate solutions.
• Experience contributing to design systems alongside engineering teams.
• Understanding of basic front-end development principles.
• Comfort using AI throughout your day-to-day design workflow to explore ideas, prototype quickly, and validate solutions.

About your abilities: You bring proven experience across product design and user research, contributions to design systems with engineering teams, and an understanding of basic front-end development principles. You also work comfortably with AI to explore, prototype, and validate solutions. Nice-to-have: Early-stage startup experience and EdTech experience.

How success is measured

• 1 month: Build relationships across Product and Engineering. Develop an understanding of Timely’s customers, product strategy, and the school scheduling domain. Contribute to early product discovery work.
• 3 months: Help shape new product direction through research, prototypes, and validated design concepts. Partner closely with Product and Engineering to test and refine solutions. Contribute to the design system.
• 6 months: Own significant areas of product discovery and design for new product initiatives. Drive work from problem definition through validated solutions.
• 12 months: Lead the design of major product initiatives. Help shape how product design evolves as Timely’s product and design organization continues to grow.

Tools and technology

• Figma