zeneducate - Zen Educate - Senior E2E Product Designer (CT/ET Timezone)

Remote - CT (Central)3w ago

Responsibilities

• Own problems end-to-end - from discovery through to shipped product. • Design flows, systems, and interfaces that are simple, scalable, and high-quality. • Stay close to the customer - building a deep understanding of educators, schools, and internal teams, and how they actually work day-to-day. • Build and contribute to our research machine - continuously learning through interviews, observation, data, and real product usage. • Turn insight into action - shaping problems, validating direction, and informing what gets built (not just justifying decisions after the fact). • Create fast feedback loops - testing ideas early through prototypes, conversations, and live experiments. • Prototype and validate ideas quickly, using modern tools (including AI-assisted ones). • Bring ideas to life beyond static design - exploring interaction, logic, and behaviour in real environments. • Collaborate deeply with engineers and PMs, while increasingly contributing directly to implementation. • Use judgement to balance speed vs quality, shipping early and iterating often. • Synthesize and share learning - building shared understanding across the team, not letting insight sit in silos. • Mentor other designers and contribute to raising the bar across the team. • Shape how we work, as design continues to evolve at Zen. • 🏗 What we’re building • Getting the right educator into the right school at the right time is a nuanced, meaningful problem. • Done well, it improves outcomes for children and puts more money into classrooms (we’ve already saved UK schools over £50 million since 2017). Done poorly, it burns out teachers, wastes money, and disrupts education. • Our platform supports: • Educators finding meaningful work. • Schools managing short- and long-term staffing needs. • Internal teams matching supply and demand efficiently. • We’re well established in the UK and rapidly growing in the US, which brings a constant stream of complex, high-impact design challenges across workflows, systems, and experiences.

Benefits

• Market reality. Compensation is based on your competitiveness in your local hiring market (note that’s not just where you live). We don’t believe anyone has found a great solution to global compensation, so we aim instead to be clear and equitable in how we do it. • Solid, but not flashy compensation. We pay decently, but we won’t beat out companies with deeper pockets (yet!). • Think long term investment. If you are in a place where you need to prioritise immediate financial gain then this probably isn’t the right time to join us. • 🧪 Hiring process • We aim to hire fast and fairly - clarity over games. Our ideal process is: apply one week, offer the next. Here’s what that looks like: • We’ll check the basics - your availability, compensation expectations, and whether this feels like a mutual fit. • Meeting with me • I’ll want to understand how you work, what matters to you in a design role, and how we can support your best work A deep dive into a past project (or two) will follow. We’ll look for clear storytelling, design thinking, collaboration, and the impact of your work. • Design task session • You’ll work on a real product problem, shaping it, exploring options, and figuring out how you think. • We believe in feedback, but only share it if you ask for it. If you want it, just say so - we’ll be honest and constructive about how we saw things. • 🙌 Sound exciting? • If you read all this and thought “hell yes” (even if it’s a slightly nervous one), then please apply. If you skimmed and thought “maybe,” apply anyway, you’ll get a clearer sense once we chat. We’re always open to great people, even if the timing isn’t perfect. • We currently have a clear need for one more Senior Product Designer to join the team, maybe it’s you? • 🌍 Diversity & Inclusion • At Zen, we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion, where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated for their unique traits, experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer, more compassionate environment for all. • We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives - just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where people’s voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work. • We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. We seek out diverse opinions, beliefs, and experiences because they collectively make us stronger; we’ve had former teachers, pilots, fundraisers, engineers, lawyers, marketers, social media experts and more join our team. • High-level bits to keep in mind 🔍 • Location: Remote (CT/ET Timezone). Collaborating with teams on the West Coast and in Europe, alongside building out a new hub in Chicago. • Type: Full-time • 🧪 Hiring process • Meeting with me • Design task session • 🙌 Sound exciting?