Paper

Product Design Strategist

Paper

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $110,000 - $130,000 per year

About the role

  • Design the experiences that move metrics
  • Craft beautiful, engaging interfaces for elementary and middle school students, making complex educational concepts feel accessible and fun
  • Shape product strategy by connecting user needs, business goals, and technical constraints into coherent solutions, then make tough calls about feature prioritization and scope
  • Keep track of schedules, dependencies, and unresolved decisions while bringing developers the complete picture - edge cases, error states, and precise interaction documentation
  • Understand Paper's business context before tackling design problems, connecting educational outcomes, student engagement metrics, and business impact to create solutions that satisfy all stakeholders

Requirements

  • Strong portfolio demonstrating illustration skills and visual design that connects with younger audiences (elementary through middle school)
  • Experience designing consumer products, gaming experiences, educational tools, or youth-focused apps where engagement and retention actually matter
  • Comfort with modern design tools (Figma, etc.) and excitement about new workflows that amplify creative output
  • An eye for detail and an instinct for what makes interfaces feel
  • Deep curiosity about game mechanics, habit formation, behavioral psychology, and what makes students come back tomorrow
  • Ability to balance qualitative insights with quantitative data to make product decisions - and the judgment to know which should lead
  • Track record of not just designing features but defining them, scoping them, and managing them through to measurable impact
  • Comfort writing specs, setting priorities, and having the difficult conversations about what not to build
  • You spend your first conversation with any stakeholder asking questions about goals, constraints, and context before jumping to solutions
  • You see how your work fits into the bigger picture of customer experience, growth, and business opportunities
  • You can articulate design decisions in terms of business strategy, not just user needs or aesthetic preferences
  • You understand that exceptional design work is dead in the water without the acute management skills to carry it from idea to delivered solution
  • Comfort with ambiguity and excitement about defining your role as you grow into it
  • Willingness to experiment with new workflows and share what you learn with the team
Benefits
  • Comprehensive & competitive compensation
  • Health benefits
  • Retirement plan
  • Stock options
  • Vacation days
  • Sick days
  • 4 extra weeks off
  • $500 stipend to set-up workspace
  • $100 monthly stipends for ongoing workspace needs
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Unlimited access to tutoring and educational support for children of Paper employees
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
illustration skillsvisual designdesigning consumer productsdesigning educational toolsdesigning youth-focused appsfeature scopingwriting specificationsuser experience designgame mechanicsbehavioral psychology
Soft Skills
attention to detailcuriosityjudgmentstakeholder communicationproblem-solvingmanagement skillsadaptabilitycollaborationprioritizationdecision-making