Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Brightwheel as a Staff Product Designer and contribute to our mission of enabling high-quality early education for every child. You will work remotely on a cross-functional team, designing user-friendly products for teachers and families across iOS, Android, and web platforms. This role requires a strong understanding of design principles and a proven track record of creating human-centered design solutions. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to define and deliver customer value. Brightwheel offers a competitive compensation package, including a base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a Product Designer
• 2+ years of mobile experience across iOS and Android
• A strong portfolio of case studies that demonstrate a successful track record of human-centered design solutions that address strategic business problems
• Experience designing end-to-end customer journeys from software to service
• Deep expertise in UI/UX craft; passion for visual design, interaction details, typography, design system and pixel perfect deliverables
• The ability to think long term towards a broader vision or step change, while being able to speak to scoping and sequencing to deliver iterative value
• Experience with user research methodologies and usability testing
• Experience shipping quality experiences across iOS, Android, and Web
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment — balancing rigor and scrappiness. You have a strong bias for action and focus on impact
• A highly collaborative approach to working with engineering and product teams
• A passion for improving the world through education

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional partners in Product Management, Engineering, and Data Science to understand customer problems, key opportunities, and define both the long term UX vision and also short term releases that deliver customer value
• Advocate for great UX, inspiring your teams with a strong point of view about what’s possible and aspirational for your product area
• Take projects 0-1
• Speak clearly to tradeoffs and the “Why” behind design decisions in terms non-designers can understand and participate in
• Conduct user research, usability testing, and gather feedback to iteratively improve the user experience and validate design solutions
• Drive team-wide impact through mentorship, fostering a culture of growth and collaboration
• Provide and seek feedback from other designers to always push the bar for quality
• Maintain design consistency across the product, contributing to our design system
• Partner with the marketing team to ensure our product design reflects and reinforces the brightwheel brand

Benefits

• Premium medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous paid parental leave
• A flexible paid time off policy
• A monthly wellness and productivity stipend
• A Learning & Development stipend