Product Designer

Whitecollars

4d • Remote

About The Position

Our client is building an education technology platform powered by a knowledge graph, and they're looking for a Product Designer who can turn complex data and technical systems into experiences that feel intuitive, purposeful, and genuinely enjoyable to use. This is an opportunity for a designer who wants to work at the intersection of product design, data visualization, technology, and education, with meaningful ownership from exploration through production. The challenge isn't simply to make the platform look polished. It's to make complexity understandable. You'll help shape how learners, educators, authors, and administrators interact with large amounts of dynamic information. You'll design experiences that remain clear when data is incomplete, content varies dramatically in length, datasets grow, and users move between different levels of detail. You'll work closely with the Founder and Frontend Engineer, giving you direct influence over product direction and the way complex ideas become real, usable experiences.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Figma and experience designing products that have actually shipped.
• Understand data visualization beyond simply selecting a chart type; you know when a visualization communicates effectively and when it can mislead.
• Experience with complex visualizations such as network/graph structures, multivariate comparisons, temporal trends, or distributional views.
• Ability to design for real dynamic content rather than relying on perfectly controlled mock data.
• Ability to think through edge cases and interaction states before engineering has to ask for them.
• Understand responsive design and the realities of constrained hardware and performance environments.
• Practical knowledge of WCAG AA accessibility standards.
• Comfortable working with APIs, technical constraints, and frontend engineers.
• Ability to prototype with HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Framer, or similar technologies.
• Care about typography, hierarchy, density, motion, color, interaction, and the details that make a product feel exceptional.
• Ability to validate work with real users and explain decisions through user and product outcomes.
• Thoughtful use of AI in the design workflow (e.g., Cursor, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Midjourney, AI-powered design and prototyping tools) to improve speed, quality, exploration, research, prototyping, or production workflow.

Nice To Haves

• A technical, frontend, creative coding, illustration, animation, photography, or visual design background.

Responsibilities

• Turn complex knowledge graphs and data structures into interfaces that non-technical users can understand confidently.
• Define information hierarchy, interaction patterns, responsive behavior, visual systems, and edge cases.
• Design meaningful data visualizations for relationships, progression, mastery, trends, distributions, and comparisons.
• Create visualization systems where color, data encoding, legends, and navigation remain consistent across different views.
• Design experiences that work with everything from a handful of items to hundreds or thousands of relationships.
• Account for real-world API behavior, including missing data, long content, empty states, loading states, errors, overflow, and variable datasets.
• Build scalable design systems with reusable components, tokens, states, variants, responsive rules, documentation, and accessibility considerations.
• Create rapid interactive prototypes using HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Framer, or similar tools to validate ideas before implementation.
• Provide clear design annotations and handoffs that engineers can implement asynchronously.
• Collaborate directly with the Founder on product direction and with frontend engineering within a defined API boundary.
• Test designs with real users and iterate based on evidence rather than internal opinions alone.

Benefits

• Opportunity to own meaningful product design work from early exploration through production.
• Work directly with the Founder and influence product direction.
• Solve genuinely complex problems involving education, data, visualization, and technology.
• Build design systems that need to work in a real, API-driven product.
• Work closely with engineering and develop deeper technical fluency.
• Experiment with modern AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows.
• Create experiences that can directly influence how people understand learning and knowledge.
• Continue developing craft in an environment that values curiosity, quality, and active participation in the wider design community.

What This Job Offers

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