Product Designer

Role Overview

Product Designer (first dedicated product designer) for the Modern Classrooms Project (MCP). This is a hands-on, foundational design role where you will take MCP’s early-stage software from rough to refined—owning how the product looks, feels, and works for teachers and students.

Responsibilities

• Refine end-to-end user experience
  • Map journeys for teachers, students, and administrators
  • Define information architecture
  • Design intuitive paths that scale as products grow
  • Identify and redesign moments where users get confused, rushed, or stuck
• Wireframe, prototype, and validate
  • Create quick wireframes to iterate cheaply before engineering
  • Build and validate high-fidelity, clickable prototypes for high-stakes flows
• Build and own the design system
  • Create and maintain a documented component library aligned with MCP brand and product needs
  • Enable engineers to compose using consistent components instead of reinventing UI patterns
• Bring design efforts in-house
  • Help establish design best practices for a mature design operation
  • Do lots of hands-on work across artifacts (e.g., journey maps, pixel-level UI, and on-screen copy)
• Collaborate closely
  • Report to the Chief Innovation Officer
  • Work with Product Managers and the engineering team

Requirements

• Hands-on ability to take a flow from wireframe → high-fidelity → clickable prototype
• Experience showing designs to real users and observing their struggles/successes
• Ability to ship pixels (not just opinions)
• Strong systems thinking: information architecture and design systems
• Experience building scalable components using modern design system practices (e.g., variants/auto-layout concepts mentioned)

Nice-to-Haves

• Not explicitly stated in the provided excerpt.