Senior Product Designer

Key Activities

• Design end-to-end user flows, navigation, and information architecture across the platform, and document them as wireframes and specifications engineers can build from.
• Own CodePath's design system: the interaction patterns, components, and standards that keep the platform consistent.
• Run lightweight product discovery. Talk to students, staff, and internal stakeholders to define what's needed, especially for platform areas and internal tools that no product manager owns.
• Partner with product managers to turn prioritized initiatives into build-ready designs, and with engineers to resolve design questions as they build.
• Direct a UI design contractor to extend your output.
• Set and hold the bar for experience quality across the product.

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing web products end-to-end, with a portfolio that shows your thinking on flows and structure and the process behind your work.
• Strong information architecture and interaction design skills. You can take an ambiguous problem and produce a clear flow, navigation model, and spec.
• Experience running your own discovery: talking to users and stakeholders to figure out what's needed rather than waiting for a fully specified brief.
• Experience building or contributing to a design system.
• Fluency producing engineer-ready artifacts (wireframes, prototypes, specs) in Figma or a comparable tool.
• Comfort with ambiguity and small-team dynamics. You've worked without a large design org around you and know how to prioritize without perfect information.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Passion for education and desire to make a positive impact.

Nice to Haves

• Experience designing for education, marketplaces, or data-heavy products.
• Experience as the first or an early design hire on a team.
• Working familiarity with how AI and LLM features change product design.
• Enough front-end fluency (HTML, CSS, Tailwind) to collaborate closely with engineers and judge what's feasible.