Jr UX Product Designer ( Remote)

Jr UX Product Designer ( Remote)

Location: Remote

$42hr (Weekly pay + Medical Benefits)

Duration: 6-month contract

Hours: Full-time M-F (8am-5pm – your time zone)

Our client is a thriving educational tech company that envisions a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life by accessing the world’s best learning experience. Their mission and vision unite their team; above all, they share a common passion for ambitious goals. They are also a strong, fun-loving community that shares meals, music, volunteering, sports, and more!

Job Overview:

The Design & Research teams play a vital role in company’s’ success. These teams are responsible for gathering learner & educator insights and translating them into recommendations that help achieve a seamless experience across its platform. These teams are divided into three main areas: Product Experience, Learning Content Experience, and Core Foundations. The experience of learning and transformation is inherently challenging. Your work as a designer will be to create simplicity from complexity and influence everything from the most micro-interaction to full-enterprise learning programs with thousands of employee learners. Our goal is to make education accessible to all and we need extraordinary designers to realize this.

Responsibilities:

• Work through design problems from beginning to end—translating qualitative and quantitative data, research insights, and high-level concepts into workflows, visual designs, and detailed interactions that create delightful user experiences.
• Navigate ambiguity in the early stages of product development to define product vision and strategy, aligning both business and customer needs.
• Create globally scalable, locally relevant, inclusive, and equitable experiences that drive business growth.
• Use qualitative insights and quantitative metrics to inform and validate design decisions.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams—including product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists—to deliver products from concept to launch and beyond.
• Influence design decisions across teams by advocating for user needs and maintaining a strong user-centered perspective.
• Balance prioritization and delivery across multiple projects while driving outcomes in a strategic Design Lead capacity.
• Lead by example and mentor less-experienced designers on design thinking, execution, and quality—raising the overall bar for design excellence.

Qualifications:

• 3-6yrs experience as a UX (User Experience) / Product Designer
• Must have experience working within enterprise/Global SaaS/Tech company
• Experience with using AI tools for design work
• Requires strong portfolio showcasing UX Design work; preferably in consumer SaaS
• Bonus: Knowledge of UI Design - UI skills with experience leveraging and building upon a design system.
• Prior experience working for a start-up; able to navigate and handle challenges/everyday not the same.
• Experience designing with emerging technologies, e.g. GenAI.
• Experience with design tool Figma
• Experience using GSuite (Docs, Sheets)
• UX design skills required to facilitate design workshops, apply solution frameworks, create user flows, define IA, create wireframes, and create prototypes.
• Experience designing for consumer SaaS product(s), enterprise products or consumer mobile.
• Strong experience in effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional partners—including product managers, engineers, data scientists, researchers, other designers, and
• Able to consider and rationalize the technical difficulty of different designs, finding ways to test concepts as simply as possible.
• Experience building new products and conducting user research to inform MVP definition and development.
• Experience with Confluence or similar