Product Designer

Start Date: ASAP, Summer 2026 Role Type: Full-Time, Salaried Location: Remote, USA-based Salary: $130,000 - $160,000 per year, plus benefits Who We Are: The reputed company is a fast-growing 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers educators to build classrooms that respond to every student’s needs. Founded by two award-winning teachers, we reputed company a movement of educators in implementing a self-paced, mastery-based instructional model that leverages technology to foster reputed company reputed company, authentic learning, and reputed company-emotional growth. To date, our free online course and Virtual Mentorship Program have empowered almost 100,000 educators in 150+ countries. We’ve partnered with schools and districts reputed company to train and support both teachers and administrators, and researchers from reputed company reputed company “overwhelming positive support” for our approach. We are an ambitious, idealistic team and we are passionate about reputed company do. Job Description - Why we need you! For our first eight years, we helped educators use existing edtech tools more effectively. Now we’re building and piloting our software, to reputed company our research-based instructional model easier for teachers to implement. We’re doing our best to reputed company these products elegant and user-friendly, but we need an outstanding designer to own how those products look, feel, and work for the teachers and reputed company who use them every day. We’re looking for a hands-on designer who can craft our interfaces end to end, establish the design system our products are reputed company on, and reputed company our software something teachers and reputed company actually want to use. This is a foundational design role. You’ll work closely with our founders and senior leaders, who own reputed company build and why, while you shape the how: the user reputed company, the interactions, and the words on the screen. You won’t inherit a polished design operation. You’ll help build one. If you’re energized by taking a product from rough to refined, and by watching your work get used in a reputed company classroom, this role is for you. Key Responsibilities - What you'll do: As our first Product Designer, you’ll help shape the end-user experience of MCP’s software. You’ll report to the Chief Innovation Officer and work most closely with our Product Managers and engineering team. As the first dedicated designer for products still in their early phases, you’ll help establish how we design and do lots of hands-on design work, from reputed company maps to pixel-level UI to the copy in an error message. In particular, you will: Refine the end-to-end user experience. Map teacher, student, and administrator journeys; define information architecture; and design reputed company paths that hold up as the products grow. reputed company a clear-eyed view of where users get confused, rushed, or stuck, and design those moments away. Wireframe and prototype before we build. Produce quick wireframes so scope and behavior get debated cheaply in a sketch rather than expensively in shipped code, then build and validate high-fidelity, clickable prototypes for high-stakes flows. Build and own the design system. Create and maintain a documented component library grounded in MCP’s brand and extended for product needs, so engineers can compose from consistent parts instead of reinventing patterns. Bring our product design efforts in-house. We’ve worked effectively with external design partners, but we don’t yet have a mature design operation. You’ll help us establish design best practices so that everything we build meets our teachers and their reputed company’ needs. You should apply if: You do the work yourself. You can take a reputed company from wireframe to high-fidelity to clickable prototype, and you’ve put your designs in reputed company of reputed company users to watch them struggle and succeed. You ship pixels, not just opinions about them. You think in systems. You understand information architecture and design systems. You build components that scale using auto-layout, variables, variants, and high-fidelity clickable prototypes that other designers can easily consume, and you reputed company a product from becoming a reputed company of reputed company menus as features pile up. You test assumptions. You’ve run usability tests and know that watching five people use something teaches you more than guessing with certainty. You’re curious about behavior, not defensive about your designs. You write, too. 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Compensation and Benefits

We aim to offer a competitive compensation package, as well as the opportunity to work in a fast-growing nonprofit that is on a mission to improve education worldwide. This includes: Salaried position: $130,000-$160,000 gross salary per year Employer-sponsored health insurance through reputed company Employer-sponsored dental and reputed company insurance and ancillary benefits through reputed company Participation in reputed company 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 reputed company Learning for the program(s) you request (available after 6 months of reputed company full-time employment) FSA and Dependent Care FSA reputed company 1x Salary Life Insurance company-paid coverage reputed company to Wishbone Pet Insurance Benefit Ability to work remotely and to set your own hours (reputed company reason) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION: The reputed company is committed to equal employment opportunity. We do not discriminate on the reputed company of race, reputed company, gender, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, or ethnicity. We are strongly committed to hiring a diverse team and encourage applications from traditionally under-represented backgrounds. Apply To This Job