Product Designer

Modern Classrooms Project

Product Designer focused on enhancing the user experience of educational software for Modern Classrooms Project. Collaborating with teams to establish design systems and improve usability for educators and students.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $130,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
You’ll help establish how we design and do lots of hands-on design work, from journey maps to pixel-level UI to the copy in an error message.
Refine the end-to-end user experience. Map teacher, student, and administrator journeys; define information architecture; and design intuitive paths that hold up as the products grow.
Keep 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.
Bring our product design efforts in-house and establish design best practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You do the work yourself. You can take a flow from wireframe to high-fidelity to clickable prototype, and you’ve put your designs in front of real 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 keep a product from becoming a maze of nested 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 write, too. You treat the words in the interface as part of the design.
You sweat the research - and the real-world constraints.
You can design web apps and learning experiences that are grounded in cognitive science learning principles.
You want to shape the world. You’re motivated to be part of something larger than yourself, and you believe the highest use of your craft is empowering others.
You have edtech experience, ideally K-12.
You have light front-end skills, enough HTML/CSS/JS literacy to inspect a build, tweak a value, and make handoff frictionless (bonus if you can prototype in code).
You’ve designed for young children and across wide age ranges.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Employer-sponsored health insurance through CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Employer-sponsored dental and vision insurance and ancillary benefits through MetLife
Participation in Vanguard 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 Continuous Learning for the program(s) you request (available after 6 months of continuous full-time employment)
FSA and Dependent Care FSA access
1x Salary Life Insurance company-paid coverage
Access to Wishbone Pet Insurance Benefit
Ability to work remotely and to set your own hours (within reason)

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Hard Skills & Tools

High-Fidelity PrototypingComponent DesignAuto-LayoutHTMLCSSJavaScriptCognitive Science PrinciplesUser Journey MappingDesign Best PracticesError Message Copywriting

Soft Skills

EmpathyMotivationCollaboration