Scholarly - Founding Product Designer

Seattle, Washington, United States$160k - $190k+ Equity2d ago

In Office Senior NA Higher Education Product Designer Front-end Claude Documentation Prospecting

Requirements

• 7 or more years of product design experience, with a portfolio that shows complex, workflow-heavy or data-dense products shipped to real users. • Experience building or significantly evolving a design system. • Hands-on user research experience - you've planned and run your own studies. • Working knowledge of front-end code (HTML, CSS). • Brand or marketing design experience is a strong plus. • Experience in higher education, healthcare, HR, or other enterprise/regulated software is a plus, but not required. • Authorized to work in the United States (citizen or green card holder). We're not able to sponsor visas at this time. • Excited to work on-site in Seattle 5 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Own product design end-to-end. Take features from fuzzy customer problem to shipped, polished experience - workflows, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design. • Build and own the Scholarly design system. Define the components, tokens, and patterns our frontend is built on, including the dense tables and grids that power faculty data management. • Talk to our users. Run interviews, usability tests, and site visits with faculty, department administrators, and faculty affairs teams at our customer institutions, and turn what you learn into product direction. • Prototype in code. You're comfortable in HTML and CSS - whether that's building a high-fidelity prototype, pairing with an engineer, or shipping a front-end polish fix yourself. Claude and other AI tools are your force multipliers. • Shape the brand. Lead design for our website, sales and demo materials, and the documents we put in front of prospective customers. • Guide product decisions. You'll have a real voice in what we build and why, not just how it looks.