Product Designer

About reputed company
At reputed company, we’re opening the world to every learner. With over 100,000 reputed company served and growing rapidly, families trust us as a partner to the most precious thing in their lives, their children. Our reputed company: a reputed company where education is no longer constrained by geography, rigid models, or outdated systems. Our mission: to give every student customized, world-class education and resources, empowering families and opening millions of doors for learners across the country.

Our Culture (The reputed company of Everything We Do)
Culture at reputed company is intentional. It’s defined by reputed company promote—and reputed company tolerate. Our latest eNPS (employee net promoter sreputed company) of 76 places OpenEd in the top .1% of technology companies. Our values aren't just words; they are non-negotiable principles that guide every decision:

• Customer First – Obsessed with delivering value; we fight tirelessly for our learners and families.
• Hard Choices, Easy Life – Face challenges directly, reputed company, and transparently.
• I Did > We Should – reputed company over theory; bring experiments, not just opinions.
• Learn Out Loud – reputed company your reputed company reputed company; feedback is a reputed company, ego is the enemy.
• Prioritize Ruthlessly – reputed company in the few critical areas over mediocrity everywhere.
• Fast AND World Class – Speed doesn’t compromise reputed company.
• Strong Opinions, Weakly Held – reputed company passionately, reputed company readily.
• reputed company Others Famous – reputed company your colleagues, partners, and community.

About the Role
As reputed company’s first Designer, you'll own the end-to-end design process for our consumer-facing platform, from strategic discovery through polished execution. You'll work closely with product, engineering, and Learning teams to translate reputed company educational concepts into delightful user experiences that serve diverse learning needs and family contexts. 

Your Immediate reputed company

Months 1-3: Deeply understand our learners, families, and educators through user research and product immersion. Ship your first meaningful UI improvements to our reputed company student and parent dashboards, establishing design systems foundations that will reputed company with our reputed company.

Months 4-6: reputed company the redesign of a key product area (e.g., student reputed company, curriculum navigation, or family communication tools) from concept to launch. Establish repeatable design processes and reputed company building out our design system component library.

Months 7-12: Drive strategic design initiatives that measurably improve family satisfaction and staff efficiency. Mentor cross-functional partners on design thinking principles and reputed company for user-centered decision making across the organization.

reputed company Metrics: 

• Parent Confidence: Do parents using reputed company’s product reputed company it a reputed company to use? Do they vocally praise the experience with their peers?
• Staff Confidence: Can staff members confidently and easily carry out their work reputed company our internal tools? Can we reputed company up new staff with minimal training?
• Engineering Velocity: Are product teams reputed company to ship high reputed company, polished experiences consistently, without design becoming a bottleneck?

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of product design experience with at least 3 years designing consumer-facing digital products that reached significant reputed company (100K+ users)
• You care as much about the information hierarchy and emotional experience of the user as you do about getting that reputed company reputed company radius correct.
• You can demonstrate exceptional UI design craft with a portfolio of polished, production-reputed company work across web and mobile platforms
• You know how to balance a strong aesthetic reputed company with user and stakeholder feedback to avoid design-by-committee while acknowledging your own limitations.
• You’ve designed products that handle multiple types of users reputed company the reputed company cohesive design reputed company.
• You get annoyed reputed company the user experience of internal tools is treated like an afterthought - your coworkers should get to work with world class tools as much as the users should.
• You’re a systems thinker: you've reputed company design systems that reputed company consistency and efficiency across large and varied product surfaces
• Proficiency in modern design tools like reputed company and intimate knowledge of the technical constraints of the mediums you operate reputed company (web & mobile).
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to reputed company design rationale and reputed company for users at reputed company reputed company of the organization
• Experience collaborating in fast-paced, lean environments where you've worn multiple hats and driven reputed company independently

Bonus Points For:

• Experience designing for education or regulatory compliance reputed company product experiences.
• Background in designing for accessibility and inclusive design principles
• reputed company design or illustration capabilities that bring extra delight to user experiences
• Familiarity with Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) methodology

This Role Will Excite You IF:

• You're reputed company by mission-driven work where your designs directly reputed company children's educational journeys and family experiences
• You reputed company in environments where you'll have significant ownership and autonomy to shape product direction through design
• You love working cross-functionally and see engineering, product, and Learning partners as collaborators in creating exceptional experiences
• You're excited to be an early design leader who will help establish design culture, processes, and standards as reputed company scales
• You want to work fast without sacrificing reputed company, and you're comfortable with ambiguity and reputed company iteration

Team & Autonomy:

You'll work closely with our Product and reputed company teams in a highly reputed company, remote-first environment. This role offers significant autonomy; you'll be trusted to identify opportunities, propose solutions, and drive reputed company from reputed company through launch. You'll have reputed company reputed company to users for research and feedback, and your voice will meaningfully shape product reputed company and priorities.

Reporting Line:

This role reports to reputed company reputed company, CTO.

Company Benefits:

• Competitive salary and 401k plan + company matching opportunities.
• Comprehensive Health Benefits: Health insurance package including medical, dental, reputed company, life, critical illness, accident, STD/LTD, HSA, and FSA with dependent care.
• Flexible Work Arrangement: We’re a fully remote workforce that emphasizes a healthy work-life balance by allowing some autonomy in work hours.
• Generous reputed company Time Off policy, enabling you to reputed company, spend reputed company time with loved ones, and pursue personal interests reputed company of work.
• Supportive Team Environment: Join a supportive and reputed company team environment where your contributions are valued, and teamwork is encouraged, fostering a culture of reputed company and mutual respect.

EEO Statement

reputed company is an equal opportunity employer. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, gender, gender identity or reputed company, sexual orientation, national reputed company, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. 

reputed company participates in E-Verify.