Founding Product Designer

Scholarly • Seattle, WA

4d • $160,000 - $190,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Scholarly is hiring its first full-time designer to own how its AI-powered higher-education software looks, feels, and works. The Founding Product Designer will design data-dense experiences for administrators and straightforward experiences for faculty, as well as the website and materials used to introduce Scholarly to institutions. The role works directly with engineering and leadership and establishes the design system, processes, and quality bar for the company.

The designer will take product features from customer problems through polished, shipped experiences; build and maintain the design system; conduct research with users at customer institutions; prototype in code and collaborate with engineers; shape the brand; and contribute to product decisions. The position is based on-site with the engineering team in Pioneer Square, Seattle, five days per week.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of product design experience.
• A portfolio demonstrating complex, workflow-heavy or data-dense products shipped to real users.
• Experience building or significantly evolving a design system.
• Hands-on user research experience, including planning and running studies.
• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS.
• Authorized to work in the United States as a citizen or green card holder; visa sponsorship is not available.
• Willingness and ability to work on-site in Seattle five days per week.

Nice To Haves

• Brand or marketing design experience.
• Experience in higher education, healthcare, HR, or other enterprise or regulated software.

Responsibilities

• Own product design end-to-end, taking features from customer problem through workflows, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, and shipment.
• Build and own the Scholarly design system, including components, tokens, and patterns used by the frontend, including dense tables and grids.
• Conduct interviews, usability tests, and site visits with faculty, department administrators, and faculty affairs teams, and translate findings into product direction.
• Prototype in code using HTML and CSS, collaborate with engineers, and make frontend polish fixes when appropriate.
• Lead design for the website, sales and demo materials, and documents for prospective customers.
• Contribute to decisions about what the product builds and why.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed