schoolhouse-world - Product Design Lead
Requirements
• Nice to have: experience in edtech or social impact spaces, and/or experience teaching or tutoring yourself. • Nice to have: familiarity with frontend web technologies like HTML/CSS - enough to communicate with our engineering team during design hand-off - and comfort using AI tools to design and prototype faster. • LIFE AT SCHOOLHOUSE • Work with an amazing team. We’ve got folks with backgrounds in education, consulting, astrophysics, startups, and more. • Fully remote with flexible working hours. Meetings are in US Pacific Time mornings. • Take real time off. We have unlimited PTO & use it. Folks regularly take time off throughout the year. • Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits. Work-from-home stipend. Professional development budget. Health, dental, vision (for US employees). • Semesterly retreats and monthly regional meetups • Make an impact you can see. Check out our community stories page https://schoolhouse.world/stories. Watch students help each other learn. See tutors grow into leaders. Your will help real people learn and grow. • Our interview process (about 3 hours total): • A 30-minute intro call with the hiring manager to learn more about you and understand whether this role is a mutual fit. • A 45-minute deep-dive where you’ll walk us through 1–2 design projects you’ve shipped end-to-end. • A 45-minute live co-design session in Figma, where we’ll work through a real Schoolhouse style design problem together. • Reference calls (run in parallel — a meaningful part of our process). • A 45 minute panel-style discussion with team members across functions • We’re building an inclusive and equitable platform for learners across the world, and it’s important our core team reflects these principles too. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply!
Responsibilities
• Lead scoping and end-to-end design of new features for learners and tutors, balancing craft, speed, and impact on our students. Work closely with our engineers to ship features from concept, to wireframes, to production. • Own visual and graphic design for our brand identity, product marketing, and other external-facing communications. • Ground your design work in user research and community engagement. Run usability studies, and actively engage our community of high-school aged learners, tutors, and volunteers through live interviews and focus groups to ensure everything we ship remains connected with our students, and centers them in our decisions. • Maintain and build onto our growing design system, with the goal of creating scalable, reusable systems as our team grows. Audit our existing platform and identify ways to make the design and interface more consistent, intuitive, and delightful. • Develop an inspiring longer-term product vision for Schoolhouse and bring it to fruition.
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