Senior Product Designer

Cadmus

Senior Product Designer enhancing the Cadmus design system to create rewarding user experiences. Leading design evolution by balancing aesthetics, functionality, and engineering collaboration.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeMelbourne • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

**WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE:**
In your first year, you will have:
- **Elevated the product’s aesthetic and perceived value:** You will lead the evolution of the Cadmus design system, introducing a level of visual polish, type hierarchy, and spatial layout that elevates the entire brand. The product won't just function better; it will look and feel premium.
- **Injected delight into dense academic workflows:** You will take inherently dry workflows—like assessment grading, rubric creation, and analytics tracking—and turn them into visually stunning, tactile, and rewarding user experiences.
- **Ensured the "magic" survives production:** You will work in lockstep with engineers to ensure that your exact visual intentions—from micro-interactions and transitions to precise border radiuses and padding—are implemented flawlessly in production. The gap between your Figma file and live code will approach zero.
- **Balanced high craft with pragmatic shipping:** You raise the visual quality bar without relying on speculative, unbuildable concepts. You make deliberate trade-offs, delivering improvements that are both breathtakingly polished and highly practical to build.
- **Introduced user insights through a design lens:** You conduct research that surfaces non-obvious insights about how students and academics interact with the UI, using those insights to solve complex usability problems beautifully.

Requirements

What you’ll need

**WHO YOU ARE**
**Your Visual Craft & Taste**
- **5+ years of experience** designing complex SaaS, B2B2C, or premium prosumer digital products.
- **Impeccable visual taste.** You obsess over the fundamentals: typography scales, precise grid systems, subtle gradients, drop shadows, intentional negative space, and responsive layout flows.
- **A portfolio that screams "execution."** Your portfolio showcases live, shipped products that demonstrate incredible attention to detail, modern UI aesthetics, and micro-interactions. We want to see how your designs move, feel, and reacts
**Systems & Interaction Design**
- **A systems thinker who loves component architecture.** You don't just build pages; you build living design systems. You care deeply about states, variables, tokens, and making a design system highly scalable for engineering.
- **Mastery of information architecture.** You know how to bring clarity to data-dense interfaces without oversimplifying them or hiding utility behind endless dropdowns.
**Execution & Collaboration**
- **Strong product judgment.** You know when to fight for a pixel-perfect interaction and when to make a deliberate trade-off to ship a feature.
- **Deep engineering alignment.** You speak the language of front-end developers. You understand HTML/CSS behaviors, flexbox layouts, and technical constraints, and you use that knowledge to push the boundaries of what can be built beautifully.

Benefits

Comp & perks

**WORKING AT CADMUS****
- **Work Your Way:** We have a flexible, hybrid culture, with 2 anchor days weekly in our Melbourne HQ for when we need to collaborate in person, and the freedom to work from anywhere the rest of the week.
- **Real Ownership:** You will have a major say in our architecture and our product roadmap.
- **Career Growth:** We focus on mentoring and planning for your future so you can grow along with the company.
- **Inclusive Environment:** We value different backgrounds and perspectives. If you love education and technology, you will belong here.

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Hard Skills & Tools

SaaS designB2B2C designvisual designtypographygrid systemsresponsive designinformation architecturecomponent architectureHTMLCSS

Soft Skills

visual tasteattention to detailproduct judgmentcollaborationsystems thinkinguser researchproblem-solvingcommunicationtrade-off decision makingengineering alignment