Senior Product Designer / UX/UI Designer

Class Central; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Class Central is seeking a hands-on senior designer with strong visual design and UI/UX skills. You’ll own the user experience and visual identity as part of a small, fully remote team.

You should have experience designing and shipping digital products, with care for typography, layout, navigation, and interactions. You’ll apply a visual identity across our website, products, and marketing materials and work with our engineers to implement ideas.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and shipping digital products.
• Strong skills in visual design and UI/UX.
• Care for typography, layout, navigation, and interactions.
• Ability to develop a visual identity and apply it across website, products, and marketing materials.
• Ability to take an idea through exploration, detailed design, and implementation with an engineer.
• Design for different screen sizes and accessibility basics.
• Good product judgment is a plus and ability to use research/data to guide decisions.
• Experience in ecommerce, marketplaces, or online education is useful.

Responsibilities

• Own the user experience and visual identity for Class Central.
• Design and ship digital products as part of a small, remote team.
• Collaborate with engineers during implementation.
• Apply visual identity across website, products, and marketing materials.
• Ensure designs work across screen sizes and accessibility basics.

Skills

UI/UX design

Visual design

Typography

Layout

Navigation

Interactions

Portfolio presentation

Job description

Our homepage illustration changes with the calendar.

You’ll be the fourth Classmate and our only designer.

We’re looking for a hands‑on senior designer with strong visual design and UI/UX skills.

Class Central has helped more than 100 million learners find their next course.

We’re learners ourselves. Over the years, Classmates have completed more than 400 online courses and three online degrees. Our publication, The Report , covers the industry in depth.

Our product has yet to catch up with what we’ve learned.

We’re rethinking Class Central, from the product we have today to new products that help people learn. You’ll help shape that direction and own the user experience and visual identity.

Discover

The Report

Our publication. Course guides, and reporting on the business of online education.

Learn

Now we want to help people learn too. Experimental, at the ideation stage.

Initially, Discover will take most of your time, with occasional work on marketing materials.

How Classmates Work

We’re bootstrapped and profitable, which lets us keep building on our own terms. Our goal is make online education work for everyone. We take the learner’s side, even when it costsus.

We’re a fully remote team. We work mostly asynchronously across time zones and meet on a video call once a week.

These principles guide how we work.

Be the Learner

Stay enrolled. Experience what our learners experience. Use those experiences to improve Class Central.

Choose Your Course

We’re a small team. We punch above our weight by choosing what matters.

Ship to Learn

Put our work in front of learners. See what works, learn from it, and make it better.

Aim for Mastery

Develop deep expertise. Set the standard others follow. Our best work is always ahead of us.

You should have experience designing and shipping digital products, with strong skills in both visual design and UI/UX. Your work should show care for typography, layout, navigation, and interactions.

You should be comfortable developing a visual identity and applying it across our website, products, and marketing materials.

You can take an idea through exploration, detailed design, and implementation with our engineer. You can work independently, explain your decisions, and ask questions when needed.

You design for different screen sizes, understand accessibility basics, and check whether people can use what you design.

Strong product judgment is a plus: identifying problems worth solving, deciding what to prioritize, and using research and data to guide decisions and evaluate results.

Experience in ecommerce, marketplaces, or online education would be useful, as would working in a small team. Illustration and other graphic design skills are a plus.

• Your portfolio and a resume or LinkedIn profile.
• One or two projects from your portfolio, with a short note on your role in each. Graphics or illustration work is welcome too.
• Something you’ve learned recently, and how you went about it.

We’re looking for an individual to join the team. No agencies.