timely - Product Designer
Requirements
• Skills: Strong design thinking, facilitation, and user research skills. Demonstrated expertise using design tools (Figma or other) to craft and communicate solutions... Experience contributing to design systems alongside engineering teams. Understanding of basic front-end development principles. Comfortable using AI throughout your day-to-day design workflow to explore ideas, prototype quickly, and validate solutions. • Nice-to-Have: Early-stage startup experience; EdTech experience. • Nice-to-Have: • You thrive in ambiguity and enjoy turning loosely defined problems into thoughtful product solutions. • You are a strong cross-functional partner who drives alignment, weighs tradeoffs, and delivers practical solutions in an agile environment. • You are a systems thinker who prioritizes consistency and scalability through the reuse of patterns, creating a cohesive experience across our products. • You communicate clearly, ask thoughtful questions, and build alignment across teams. • You have strong opinions backed by evidence, but are comfortable changing course as you learn. • Success milestones: • Success milestones • 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. • 1 month: • 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. • 3 months: • 6 months: Own significant areas of product discovery and design for new product initiatives. Drive work from problem definition through validated solutions. • 6 months: • 12 months: Lead the design of major product initiatives. Help shape how product design evolves as Timely's product and design organization continue to grow. • 12 months:
Responsibilities
• Partner with product management to decompose problems, surface and weigh options, and define design solutions. • Lead design product discovery through customer interviews, workshops, and collaborative ideation. • Conceptualize and design intuitive user flows and information architecture to support complex administrative workflows. • Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for our web applications. • Collaborate with engineering to design feasible solutions that take into account technical constraints. • Support and contribute to our growing design system, ensuring a cohesive platform experience.. • Conduct user interviews and usability testing, asking questions that uncover hidden assumptions and lead to innovative discoveries. • Prototype and validate ideas quickly before committing to full development cycles. • Nice-to-Have: Early-stage startup experience; EdTech experience.
Benefits
• This is a rare opportunity to help shape a new product from the beginning. You'll join a small, fast-moving team where design has an outsized impact on what we build and how we build it. You'll work closely with customers and teammates to solve complex problems while helping grow the design practice at Timely. • If you're someone who thrives on complexity, enjoys building from 0 to 1, and wants to create products that have a direct impact on students and educators, we'd love to hear from you.
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