Principal Product Designer

The Company

Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.

We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.   Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard. Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers. We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission. We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning.

Outschool has been named Fast Company’s most innovative EdTech company in the world, and one of the top ten best startups for women from Elpha. Outschool has also been one of BuiltIn’s Best Remote Places to Work for the last two years and has appeared on Y Combinator’s Top Companies list for the last three years. 

The Role

We’re seeking a Principal Product Designer to join the Product Design team at Outschool. We are a marketplace that offers classes for K-12 learners enabling parents to educate their children in ways not offered or even possible in traditional public or private schools. Our team is seeking a player/coach Principal Designer with the passion for craft, deep understanding (and portfolio to back it up) of building world-class product experiences, and significant experience building design systems from the ground up. This will be the most senior IC role on the team reporting directly to the Head of Design, where you will craft experiences, drive the development of our design system and mentor other designers. If you're in search of a mission-driven company and want to make a meaningful impact, we’d love to talk to you.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work directly in partnership with the Head of Design to contribute across our product design team in areas of core product, design system and growth.
• Develop the strategy to craft our design system and coordinate with engineering and product management through prioritization and development to ship it iteratively with direct impact on product quality.
• Partner with cross functional peers and leaders to create meaningful product experiences that positively impact learners, parents and families, while growing the company.
• Demonstrate accountability for driving appropriate metrics through strategy development and execution along with product and engineering work partners.
• Mentor other designers and contribute to growing a rich design culture. We deeply care for one another and are focused on making a true impact for our learners while growing our own careers and having fun doing so.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• 8-10+ years of experience designing consumer-facing digital and mobile experiences.
• Strong experience building design system from the ground up.
• A portfolio demonstrating high value of craft through web and mobile work that has shipped with meaningful impact, including design systems.
• The ability to balance business objectives with user needs. You represent both sides and balance your design decisions, getting the best possible outcome for both.
• A growth mindset, be an optimist, and be adaptable! We’re a fast growing company and are learning as we grow.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Experience in startups and marketplaces is a huge plus, especially in Growth.
• Edtech experience and passion for it, and education in general makes us extra happy.

Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. For New York and California candidates, as well as candidates based in Seattle, WA the salary range for this role would be $210,000-$247,500 USD.

For Washington candidates outside of Seattle, as well as Colorado candidates, the salary range for this role would be $189,000-222,750 USD.

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OUTSCHOOL CARES:

At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means:   •Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and investment plans that make saving for retirement easier. •Health & Wellness: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage options for employees and their families. Our medical benefits include fertility and family planning coverage. We also provide employees with online access to coaching and therapy sessions through our partner, ModernHealth.  •PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.  •Fully Distributed: With a team distributed across the US and Canada, we create a remote culture through expensable meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance. •Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets to self-direct our professional development as well as DEI learning. There’s also a budget for employees’ learners to take classes on Outschool!  •Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to support Outschool.org’s non-profit programs.     Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and competitive advantage. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.    If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact recruiting@outschool.com.   Benefits packages are included for full-time employees only. Full-time employees must be a citizen or legal residents of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.   Once you submit your application, Outschool will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy for employment. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, we hire employees only in the U.S. and Canada. Applicants else where should be aware that we may discard your application upon submission or we may ask if you would like us to retain it later should there be consideration (this is not typical at all).  If you are selected for interviewing, your data will be shared with interviewers and personnel involved in that process. If not hired, your application will be retained for one year in case there is another suitable role. You may opt out of this at any time. Please see our Employee/Applicant Privacy Notice for more detailed information. If applicable, as you progress through the process, we will be clear about what information is being asked for and what happens with that information. Apply