Product Designer

Description

• Role: Product Designer — junior to senior level.

• Company: Minerva Project, focused on transforming higher education through innovative, research-backed learning experiences.

• Work setup: Fully remote, open to candidates worldwide.

• Employment: Full-time.

• Salary: $70,000–$125,000 annually, depending on experience and role scope.

• Mission: Build intuitive software that makes complex educational workflows clearer, more accessible, and easier to use.

Responsibilities

• Understand users: Identify pain points through user conversations, research, support feedback, and usage data.

• Design end-to-end experiences: Create user flows, wireframes, interfaces, and prototypes in Figma.

• Simplify complexity: Design clear layouts, responsive interfaces, accessible interactions, and effective UX copy.

• Maintain design consistency: Work with existing design systems and collaborate with engineers on reusable components.

• Make informed decisions: Balance user needs, technical constraints, and project scope.

• Communicate design rationale: Document decisions, edge cases, and interaction behaviors for effective implementation.

• Collaborate and iterate: Seek feedback, review shipped designs, resolve usability issues, and improve experiences using real-world insights.

• Own work at the appropriate level: Execute defined projects at junior level, independently deliver product work at mid-level, or lead ambiguous problems and cross-product patterns at senior level.

Requirements

• Portfolio: Showcase 1–2 relevant projects demonstrating interaction design, visual clarity, problem-solving, design decisions, and iteration.

• Figma proficiency: Working knowledge of components and prototyping; greater independence expected from experienced candidates.

• UX fundamentals: Understanding of accessibility, responsive web design, and complex user workflows.

• Critical thinking: Ability to identify gaps, ask useful questions, and make progress amid uncertainty.

• Communication: Explain design decisions clearly, document work, accept critique, and collaborate across disciplines.

• Teamwork: Manage progress, communicate blockers, and follow through in a distributed team.

• Senior-level expectations: Demonstrate ownership of ambiguous problems, improve shared design patterns, and strengthen team decision-making.

• Relevant experience: Education technology, enterprise software, user research, and mobile web experience are advantageous, not mandatory.

• AI proficiency: Experience using AI tools in design workflows is a plus, particularly when you can evaluate and refine their output.

• Experience flexibility: Professional experience is not essential for every level; internships, coursework, and substantial personal projects are accepted.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: $70,000–$125,000 per year, based on experience and responsibilities.

• Worldwide remote work: Work remotely from anywhere, subject to regular working-hour overlap with the team.

• Flexible career entry: Opportunities for junior, mid-level, and senior designers.

• Mentorship and feedback: Junior designers receive guidance and regular reviews from an experienced designer.

• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with designers, engineers, and product and technology leadership.

• Meaningful impact: Contribute to educational technology designed to improve learning outcomes globally.

• Clear hiring process: Initial conversation, design exercise and review, engineering-collaboration discussions, and a final leadership conversation