Product Designer/Design Lead

Freelancingforgood; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 89,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic educational organization is seeking a Product Designer to shape the design vision and collaborate with engineers. This fully remote role requires strong visual design skills and at least 2 years of experience. The ideal candidate thrives in a startup environment and is impact-oriented, working closely with a community of students. This role offers significant ownership and flexibility within a mission-driven team.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of design experience required.
• Solo product designer experience for an early-stage startup is preferred.
• Available to work in a US timezone.

Responsibilities

• Own visual and graphic design for our product.
• Lead scoping and design of new features.
• Interface with community through user interviews.

Skills

Visual design

Product mindset

Communication skills

Execution speed

User-centered design

Tools

Figma

Job description

Schoolhouse is looking for a Product Designer to join their team. This is a fully remote position, but you have to be available to work in a US timezone.

Overview:

• Full-time position
• Language: English
• Location: Anywhere (remote), but you have to be available to work in a US timezone
• Salary: $120,000 – $160,000 a year
• Applications closing: until filled

Job Description

We’re looking for a Product Designer to lead design in Schoolhouse team of lifelong learners with a passion for education. This is a uniquely challenging role with opportunity for significant ownership and impact. As our solo designer, you’ll be responsible for setting our design vision, rapidly scoping out new features each week using Figma, and owning all parts of the design stack (visual design, UX, branding, etc.). You’ll work directly with our five engineers, three program managers, and (many) students, as well as often play the role of a product manager, driving new product features from start to finish.

This role is a great fit for you if you thrive in a dynamic startup environment, enjoy the challenge of designing around human systems, love wearing multiple hats, and are excited to work on a mission-oriented product to empower students across the world.

Responsibilities

• Own visual and graphic design for our product, brand identity, product marketing, and other external-facing communications.
• Lead scoping and end-to-end design of new features to support learners and tutors in our platform, balancing craft, speed, and impact on our students. Work closely with our engineers to ship features from concept, to wireframes, to production.
• Interface with our community of high-school aged learners, tutors, and volunteers in user interviews (we’re well connected with our students, and center 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.

Role Requirements

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and expertise:

• A design generalist with an eye for visual design, a strong product mindset, and fluency shipping experiences from ideas to high-fidelity mockups (we use Figma)
• Experience in being a solo product designer (or one-of-two) for an early-stage startup OR you have personally driven and shipped a large design project on the side
• 2+ years of design experience
• Available to work in a US timezone
• Clear communication skills – whether you’re collaborating with teammates or crafting intuitive experiences for our high-school aged community
• Quick execution and bias towards action
• Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment: embracing ambiguity and uncertainty, balancing rapid experimentation with scalable solutions, and taking on significant ownership
• Impact oriented – it’s what drives you.

How to apply?

To apply for this role, please fill in the application form. You will be asked to upload your CV and answer a few questions about your experience.

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 apply!