Design-Led Product Manager

Willow Ed; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Willow Ed is seeking a Product Manager with a design background to own the product from first user conversation to finished experience. You will lead UX, prototyping, and AI-enabled solutions, taking full design ownership and collaborating closely with CPTO and CAO to improve education experiences.

You’ll conduct research with students, educators, and school leaders, turn complex problems into product solutions, test approaches with real users, and ship polished interfaces across Willow’s

Qualifications

• Experience with user research and design-led product work.
• Ability to turn user insights into product opportunities.
• Comfort with prototyping and usability testing.
• Strong product thinking and problem definition.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research with students, educators, counselors, and school leaders.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing experiences and build new ones.
• Turn ambiguous problems into clear product solutions.
• Explore, prototype, and test multiple approaches with real users.
• Design polished, production-ready product experiences.
• Make decisions about workflows, interaction patterns, information architecture, hierarchy, and usability.
• Run product-based experiments to identify opportunities and strengthen outcomes.
• Work closely with engineering from early exploration through implementation.
• Maintain and improve the consistency, usability, and visual quality of Willow across the product.

Skills

User research

Product thinking

UX design

Prototyping

User interviews

Decision making

AI prototyping

Job description

Willow Ed is seeking a Product Manager with a design background to own the product from first user conversation to finished experience. You will lead UX, prototyping, and AI-enabled solutions, taking full design ownership and collaborating closely with CPTO and CAO to improve education experiences.

You’ll conduct research with students, educators, and school leaders, turn complex problems into product solutions, test approaches with real users, and ship polished interfaces across Willow’s