Resume Score

Check how well your resume matches this job before you apply.

Sign in to check score

About the role

  • Product Designer creating clear, accessible software experiences for Minerva’s global higher-education platform. Designing complex workflows from research through implementation with distributed product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Understand user workflows, goals, pain points, and priorities through conversations, support feedback, research, and usage data
  • Map user flows and create designs and prototypes in Figma
  • Identify user-role needs, permissions, empty states, errors, and edge cases
  • Design clear layouts, hierarchy, responsive behavior, and accessible interactions
  • Write labels, instructions, warnings, and confirmations
  • Reuse established design-system components and identify when new patterns are needed
  • Collaborate with engineering to keep Figma designs consistent with the implemented product
  • Explore design options, explain tradeoffs, and account for technical constraints
  • Clarify scope and choose practical approaches the team can build
  • Document intended behavior, edge cases, and design decisions for implementation and review
  • Seek critique early and incorporate feedback
  • Review implementations, identify confusing or broken interactions, and help resolve them
  • Observe real product usage and feed findings into future design decisions
  • Collaborate with another designer, engineers, product leadership, and technology leadership
  • Own design decisions while product leadership owns prioritization, roadmap commitments, and business goals

Requirements

  • Portfolio with 1–2 relevant software design projects
  • Examples demonstrating contribution, reasoning, and ability to use feedback
  • Portfolio showing interaction design, visual clarity, and thoughtful handling of complex workflows
  • Working knowledge of Figma, including components and prototyping
  • Willingness to develop skills within an established design system
  • Understanding of accessibility and responsive web design
  • Ability to identify missing information, ask useful questions, and make reasonable progress amid uncertainty
  • Clear written communication and ability to explain design decisions to people with different backgrounds
  • Ability to communicate progress, questions, and blockers and follow through in a distributed team
  • For experienced candidates, shipped work and collaboration with engineers
  • For senior candidates, evidence of framing ambiguous problems, improving patterns across multiple workflows, and helping teammates make stronger design decisions
  • Experience with education software, complex business applications, user research, or mobile web experiences would be useful
  • Experience using AI tools for design workflow is a plus
  • Ability to maintain regular working-hour overlap with the team
  • Resume or profile and portfolio required for application

Benefits

  • Fully remote work
  • Opportunity to work with a distributed team
  • Regular working-hour overlap with the team
  • Design ownership in collaboration with the existing team
  • Guidance and regular review from an experienced designer for junior designers
  • Collaboration with engineers, product, and technology leadership
  • Participation in a mission-driven company improving education
  • Hiring process includes sharing exercise scope, expected time commitment, and interview details before each stage

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$70,000 - $125,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

Report this job

Found something wrong with the page? Please let us know by submitting a report below.