EdTech Product Designer - 0→1 SaaS Innovator

TrulyHired; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Timely is seeking a Product Designer embedded in a small, cross-functional team to shape Timely's next generation of products from the ground up. This is a true 0-to-1 role where you'll partner closely with product managers, engineers, and leadership to turn complex, ambiguous problems into thoughtful design solutions for schools.

You'll help grow Timely's design practice by contributing to discovery, wireframing, prototyping, and a cohesive design system while balancing user needs with

Qualifications

• Experience in Product Design or Design Engineering in a B2B SaaS business or adjacent environment.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Product Design

Design thinking

User research

Figma

Design systems

Front-end basics

AI in workflow

Tools

Figma

Job description

Timely is seeking a Product Designer embedded in a small, cross-functional team to shape Timely's next generation of products from the ground up. This is a true 0-to-1 role where you'll partner closely with product managers, engineers, and leadership to turn complex, ambiguous problems into thoughtful design solutions for schools.

You'll help grow Timely's design practice by contributing to discovery, wireframing, prototyping, and a cohesive design system while balancing user needs with