Senior Product Designer

Clasp

56d • $140,000 - $170,000 • Remote

About The Position

Clasp is a venture-backed, mission-driven startup transforming access to education and career pathways. We are revolutionizing the way employers attract and retain critical talent and the way colleges and universities support their students through education financing — all while tackling the student debt crisis. Clasp is driven by our commitment to social impact and innovation. Our work spans two business lines: Clasp Talent helps healthcare employers attract and retain critical talent by connecting them with students entering the field and using student loan repayment as a powerful recruiting and retention tool. Clasp Finance equips colleges and universities with lending technology to launch and operate their own private student loan programs, enabling schools to support their students directly with financial aid. Join us on our journey to give power to learners and unlock fulfilling careers that drive positive change in their communities and beyond.

Requirements

• Full-Lifecycle Design Experience: 5+ years of product design experience, with case studies that show how you identify problems, validate insights, design systems and interactions, and ship high-quality experiences for complex products. You've shipped, not just shaped.
• Range Across Consumer and Operational Surfaces: Comfort designing both consumer-facing acquisition flows and data-dense operational tooling. You can move from a landing page to an invoice reconciliation screen and bring craft to both.
• Systems Thinking: Ability to hold a large, interconnected ecosystem in your head and design experiences that scale. You understand how a change in one persona's flow ripples across the others.
• Multi-Persona Product Sensibility: Comfort designing for products with multiple distinct user types — where each persona has different goals, contexts, and constraints — or a strong instinct for how to balance competing needs across them. Bonus if you've worked on products where the user and the customer aren't the same person.
• Design System Experience: You've worked inside a production design system and know how to evolve one — adding components, refactoring patterns, and balancing flexibility with consistency as a product grows.
• Fluency in Figma: Deep experience with components, variables, auto layout, and prototyping. You understand how your designs map to code and collaborate effectively with engineers.
• Strong Visual Craft: A refined sense of typography, layout, color, and visual hierarchy, with awareness of modern product aesthetics and an instinct for when to break convention.
• Research Competency: Comfort partnering with Product on qualitative and quantitative research — usability tests, interviews, analytics reviews — and incorporating insights into your design process.
• AI Curiosity: Hands-on experience experimenting with AI tools in your workflow, and excitement about applying them responsibly to accelerate output and explore new interaction models.
• Remote Collaboration: You're effective working remotely with a distributed team. You're proactive about communication, comfortable shaping ideas in writing as well as in real-time, and willing to travel occasionally for in-person sessions when it matters.

Nice To Haves

• Healthcare, health-tech, fintech, or HR-tech experience is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Own End-to-End Design for Clasp Talent: Lead the full design lifecycle — from ambiguous discovery and problem framing through prototyping, production, and final polish — across the recruitment platform and the benefit administration platform.
• Design Across Four Personas: Hold the full experience in your head — students discovering and applying, recruiters sourcing and placing, employees receiving repayment benefits, and employer-administrators managing the program. Make sure the seams between these experiences feel intentional, not accidental.
• Evolve the Design System: Build on the design system foundations already in place — maturing components, expanding coverage as new surfaces ship, and driving consistency across consumer flows and operational tooling.
• Make Complex Workflows Feel Simple: Bring clarity to the genuinely hard surfaces — HRIS integration setup, flow-of-funds visibility, invoice and credit reconciliation, benefit administration. Make data-rich, compliance-sensitive interfaces feel calm, legible, and trustworthy.
• Prototype and Validate: Use Figma (including variables and advanced interactions) to rapidly prototype and test with real users, ensuring solutions are intuitive, efficient, and grounded in real behavior.
• Get Close to Users: Partner with Product to run qualitative and quantitative research — usability testing, interviews, data-driven insights. Spend real time with healthcare students, recruiters, employees, and employer-administrators, and translate that contact into design decisions.
• Partner with Marketing: Work closely with student marketing on top-of-funnel experiences — landing pages, conversion paths, channel-specific touchpoints — so the line between marketing and product feels seamless to the candidate.
• Elevate the Visual Craft: Raise the bar for clarity, quality, and cohesion. Healthcare students deciding whether to commit to an employer, and employees relying on this benefit to repay their loans, are making meaningful career and financial decisions; the experience should reflect that gravity while removing every unnecessary friction.
• Infuse Delight and Personality: Introduce moments of engagement, warmth, and humanity that make the product feel trustworthy and memorable, not transactional — even (especially) on the operational surfaces.
• Leverage AI Workflows: Explore and responsibly apply emerging AI tools to accelerate research, ideation, and design production — making your process smarter, faster, and more scalable.

Benefits

• Competitive cash and equity compensation
• Health benefits (health, dental, & vision)
• Student loan repayment benefits
• 401k matching
• Commuter benefits
• Flexible PTO policy
• Opportunities to grow and perform in a fast-paced environment alongside a stellar team

What This Job Offers

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