Principal Product Designer

Summary

Join Outschool's Product Design team as a Principal Product Designer! This senior individual contributor role reports directly to the Head of Design. You will craft exceptional user experiences, lead the development of our design system, and mentor other designers. We're a fast-growing EdTech company with a remote-first culture, and we're looking for a player/coach with 8+ years of experience building consumer-facing digital products and design systems. If you're passionate about education and creating a meaningful impact, we encourage you to apply. We offer competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• 8-10+ years of experience designing consumer-facing digital and mobile experiences
• Strong experience building design system from the ground up
• A portfolio demonstrating high value of craft through web and mobile work that has shipped with meaningful impact, including design systems
• The ability to balance business objectives with user needs. You represent both sides and balance your design decisions, getting the best possible outcome for both
• A growth mindset, be an optimist, and be adaptable!

Responsibilities

• Work directly in partnership with the Head of Design to contribute across our product design team in areas of core product, design system and growth
• Develop the strategy to craft our design system and coordinate with engineering and product management through prioritization and development to ship it iteratively with direct impact on product quality
• Partner with cross functional peers and leaders to create meaningful product experiences that positively impact learners, parents and families, while growing the company
• Demonstrate accountability for driving appropriate metrics through strategy development and execution along with product and engineering work partners
• Mentor other designers and contribute to growing a rich design culture

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in startups and marketplaces is a huge plus, especially in Growth
• Edtech experience and passion for it, and education in general makes us extra happy

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Stock options
• Investment plans that make saving for retirement easier
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage options for employees and their families
• Our medical benefits include fertility and family planning coverage
• We also provide employees with online access to coaching and therapy sessions through our partner, ModernHealth
• PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends
• With a team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance
• Annual budgets to self-direct our professional development as well as DEI learning
• There’s also a budget for employees’ learners to take classes on Outschool!
• Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to support Outschool.org’s non-profit programs