Staff Product Designer (EdTech)

TL;DR

Staff Product Designer (EdTech): Leading the design strategy and execution for a major product or feature area within the Learning Content Experience with an accent on crafting learner and educator experiences that are cohesive, accessible, and impactful. Focus on translating complex problems into simple, elegant, and inclusive solutions that scale globally.

Location: Canada

Salary: $140,000 - $175,000

Company

hirify.global makes world-class learning accessible to everyone, everywhere.

What you will do

• Lead the design vision, strategy, and execution for a major product or feature area.
• Define and navigate ambiguous and complex problem spaces, leveraging insights across customer, business, and operational areas.
• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists to design and ship high-quality, scalable, and inclusive product experiences.
• Partner with research and data leads to synthesize quantitative and qualitative insights into cohesive, actionable design recommendations.
• Mentor and provide feedback to designers across pods, raising the bar for design quality, storytelling, and collaboration.

Requirements

• 7-9 years of experience as a UX or Product Designer.
• Mastery of core UX methods, including facilitating workshops, conducting user research, synthesizing insights, creating user flows, defining information architecture, and producing wireframes and prototypes.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills, with experience leveraging and contributing to design systems.
• Demonstrated ability to design responsive, mobile-first experiences informed by user research and data insights.
• Proficiency in design and collaboration tools such as Figma, FigJam, and related platforms.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with proven success collaborating with PMs, engineers, researchers, and data scientists.

Nice to have

• Experience designing AI-driven products and using AI tools in design, including prompt-based interactions and best practices.
• Experience designing for consumer SaaS, enterprise, or EdTech platforms, or mobile-first applications.
• Experience mentoring other designers or contributing to design community programs.
• Experience using AI for product design and development and evangelizing best practices
• Passion for education, learning transformation, and hirify.global’s mission to make world-class learning accessible to everyone.

Culture & Benefits

• Globally distributed team.
• Virtual hiring and onboarding.
• Competitive pay and fair compensation practices across all regions.