Product Consultant - Firki

Teach For India; India; On-site; INR 429,000 - 714,000; Part time

Job summary

Teach For India seeks a Product Consultant (Product Design) to work on Firki, a teacher training platform, on a part-time contract basis. The role focuses on simplifying and enriching the web and app experience, including creating Figma designs and developer-ready handoffs.

You will use Hotjar and product data to reduce friction and align with the product roadmap. The engagement is 16 hours per week from October 2026 to March 31, 2027, with potential renewal terms.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of product design / UX / UI design experience.
• Strong Figma skills and an eye for simple, thoughtful design.
• Ability to understand a problem from the user's perspective, not just design screens.
• Comfortable collaborating with Product and Engineering teams.
• Able to work independently and manage a fractional engagement.
• Experience designing for EdTech, non-profits, or products serving diverse/less tech-savvy users would be a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve Firki's web and app experience, working closely with the Product Manager and Developer.
• Create Figma designs and developer-ready handoffs.
• Use tools like Hotjar, user feedback and product data to identify areas of friction and improve the experience.
• Help build a consistent and simple design language across Firki.
• Understand our users, their needs and our product roadmap, and translate these into simple, intuitive experiences.

Skills

Figma

UX/UI design

Collaboration

Independent contractor

EdTech experience

Tools

Hotjar

Job description

Teach For India is on a journey to reach an India free of poverty and filled with love by ending educational inequity in our country. Fifteen years into our journey we are a movement of ~5000+ Alumni working at all levels of the education system, who are reaching 1 in 10 children across the country. These Alumni have graduated from our two-year Fellowship Program where they taught in under-resourced classrooms to put ~33,500 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have ~1000 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India. Over 16,000 Teach For India students have appeared for the 10th grade board examinations till date, with an impressive 95% pass rate across cities as of November 2024.

In 2022, we embarked on Phase 4, our fourth strategic phase. We have a bold and ambitious ten-year journey ahead of us that aims to grow 50,000 leaders, who will work collectively, and with love, to transform the lives of 1 in 10 low-income children in our regions, through an education that unleashes the potential of self, others and India. In this decade, five key priorities will lead us to this vision.

• Strengthen our core Fellowship to build strong teacher leaders who provide an excellent and equitable education to our children and continue to do so beyond the Fellowship
• Scale our impact by strategically introducing additional Fellowships as alternative pathways for leadership development
• Match the Alumni of our programs at an intersection of their interests and the needs of the system and our children
• Advocate for key issues that impact educational equity, and engage 3.5% of the population in the movement for educational equity
• Act collectively with our Alumni to learn about and address key issues in our regions.

Our work will only be completed when we have built a movement of leaders that is large enough to ensure that every child in India attains an excellent education.

We pride ourselves as being a passionate, idealistic, mission-driven team of individuals. We're committed to learning and excellence in our roles, and to being deeply rooted in our core values.

What Teach For India Can Offer You

• The opportunity to be part of one of the most established and visionary movements in the education sector in India which is at a pivotal point in terms of expanding its scale and outreach across the nation and working with changemakers across the country.
• A challenging yet flexible workplace in which every individual employee's Staff journey is tracked for excellence and leadership development.
• A work environment in which employees' holistic well-being is a core priority, enabling people to be their best selves.
• Access to connections and resources from the global Teach For All network that includes partner organizations spanning 50+ countries across 6 continents.
• Remuneration that is competitive within the top quartile of the Indian NGO pay scales, and a benefits package that includes extensive medical insurance and maternity coverage for both parents.

Position Summary

Reporting to: Product Lead, Firki

We're looking for a Product Consultant (Product Design) to work with us on a part-time contract basis helping us make Firki simpler, more intuitive and engaging as we work towards reaching 1 million+ users.

This role is open to part-time consultancy engagements, from October 2026 to 31 March 2027, with the possibility of renewal beyond 31 March 2027, subject to organizational requirements and mutual agreement. The role requires a time commitment of 16 hours per week.

Team Overview

Microsite: https://firki.co/

Firki is Teach For India's open-source online teacher training platform, helping teachers across India access resources and courses to support their professional development. Firki currently reaches 1.4+ lakh users and offers 260+ courses.

The long term vision for Firki is to be the most accessible and effective route to a high quality alternative teacher certification in India. Firki takes a 70:20:10 approach to teacher training in which 70% of the learning happens through actual teaching practice in the classroom, 20% through coaching, mentoring and communities of practice (webinars and online learning circles), and 10% through the different learning opportunities that the platform offers like courses, webinars and resources. Please click here to take a look at the portal.

Responsibilities

As a Product Consultant - Firki, you will work on:

• Design and improve Firki's web and app experience, working closely with the Product Manager and Developer.
• Create Figma designs and developer-ready handoffs.
• Use tools like Hotjar, user feedback and product data to identify areas of friction and improve the experience.
• Help build a consistent and simple design language across Firki.
• Understand our users, their needs and our product roadmap, and translate these into simple, intuitive experiences.

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• 2+ years of experience in product design / UX / UI design.
• Strong Figma skills and an eye for simple, thoughtful design.
• Ability to understand a problem from the user's perspective, not just design screens.
• Comfortable collaborating with Product and Engineering teams.
• Able to work independently and manage a fractional engagement.
• Experience designing for EdTech, non-profits, or products serving diverse/less tech-savvy users would be a plus.

Note: We want to hear your unique voice and perspectives through the process; hence, all applicants are expected to personally author statements of purpose/essays in the application form. Sole use of AI or Chat-GPT-based tools may lead to disqualification from the process.