Product Designer

Modern Classrooms Project•Washington, DC

3d•$130,000 - $160,000•Remote

About The Position

The Modern Classrooms Project is seeking a Product Designer to own the look, feel, and functionality of their new software products. This is a foundational role where the designer will craft interfaces end-to-end, establish the design system, and ensure the software is user-friendly for teachers and students. The designer will work closely with founders and senior leaders, shaping the 'how' of product development, including user interface, interactions, and on-screen copy. This role is ideal for someone energized by taking a product from rough to refined and seeing their work used in real classrooms. The designer will help build a mature design operation from the ground up.

Requirements

Ability to take a design flow from wireframe to high-fidelity to clickable prototype.
Experience putting designs in front of real users and observing their interactions.
Proficiency in information architecture and design systems.
Ability to build scalable components using auto-layout, variables, and variants.
Experience creating high-fidelity clickable prototypes that are easily consumable by other designers.
Experience running usability tests and understanding user behavior.
Ability to treat interface text as part of the design, crafting clear and kind button labels, error messages, and feedback.
Consideration for accessibility, color contrast, touch-target sizes, device limitations, and network connectivity in designs.
Ability to design web apps and learning experiences grounded in cognitive science learning principles.
Motivation to be part of a mission-driven organization and empower others.

Nice To Haves

Edtech experience, ideally K-12, including understanding of school-issued devices, district IT restrictions, limited training time, school day rhythms, and the difference between demo and real-world performance.
Light front-end skills (HTML/CSS/JS literacy) for inspecting builds, tweaking values, and facilitating handoff.
Ability to prototype in code.
Experience designing for young children with varying reading levels, motor skills, and attention spans.

Responsibilities

Refine the end-to-end user experience by mapping user journeys, defining information architecture, and designing intuitive paths.
Identify and design solutions for user confusion, rush, or difficulty within the software.
Create wireframes and high-fidelity, clickable prototypes to facilitate design debates and validate user flows.
Build and maintain a documented design system, including a component library, to ensure consistency and efficient development.
Establish design best practices and bring product design efforts in-house to meet user needs.
Design interfaces, interactions, and on-screen copy for MCP's software products.

Benefits

Salaried position: $130,000-$160,000 gross salary per year
Employer-sponsored health insurance through CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Employer-sponsored dental and vision insurance and ancillary benefits through MetLife
Participation in Vanguard 403(b) deferred-compensation plan with 3% employer match
Paid Time Off, inclusive of: vacation/PTO (20 days), paid holidays, paid parental leave, sick and safe paid time off, "Me Days", and the ability to earn paid Comp time off
Annual budget for MCP-funded Continuous Learning for the program(s) you request (available after 6 months of continuous full-time employment)
FSA and Dependent Care FSA access
1x Salary Life Insurance company-paid coverage
Access to Wishbone Pet Insurance Benefit
Ability to work remotely and to set your own hours (within reason)