Our design team is a highly collaborative group of talented designers; they play a key role in defining and shaping the experience of every product across Instructure’s portfolio. They go through great lengths to engage with our customers, as gaining empathy proves to be one of the greatest design tools in the kit. Working closely with product managers and developers, our designers craft purposeful, usable and accessible products and features that don’t just meet the immediate needs of today, but those to come as the world’s education system continues to move online.
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our collaborative and motivated team. You have a passion for combining seamless interaction with beautiful visual design. Your work is easy to navigate, logically organized, engaging, and accessible. Your designs reflect the highest standard of usability and simplicity to the millions we serve.
What you'll be doing:
- Play an influential role in designing workflows for educators, students, and people that support teaching and learning
- Partner closely with product managers and developers to solve complex problems and ensure the highest quality solutions
- Be an advocate for A11y best practices
- Work with a rapid, iterative mindset, being open and flexible to changes based on user feedback
- Initiate and lead research activities with our customers and users
- Measure the success of products after release
- Build prototypes for user testing
- Use and contribute to a design system to create products with consistent interactions and a shared visual language
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to ensure the highest quality designs and functionality
You will be/have:
- At least 5 years of experience designing for large scale digital products
- A portfolio representing your strong design work (visual and UX) on complex digital products
- Self-motivated with a passion for design
- Strong problem solving skills
- Strong storytelling and communication skills, verbal and written
- Strong work ethic, sense of accountability and ownership
- Strong attention to detail and a systematic thinker
- Highly self-motivated, with experience leveraging Design Systems
- Great team player who is comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment
- The ability to iterate rapidly
- Familiarity of user expectations and usage for mobile
- Prototyping experience (such as inVision, Figma) desired
- Experience with designing mobile first and responsive web design
Get in on all the awesome at Instructure:
- 401k with company match
- HSA program, vision, voluntary life, and AD&D
- Tuition reimbursement
- Lifestyle Spending Account
- Paid time off, 11 paid holidays, and flexible work schedules
- Motivosity - employee recognition program
We’ve always believed in hiring the most awesome people and treating them right. We know that the more diverse we are, the more diverse our ideas will be and when we openly welcome those ideas, our environment is better and our business is stronger.
At Instructure we participate in E-Verify and yes, in case you didn't catch it from the above, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All Instructure employees are required to successfully pass a background check upon being hired.
Instructure Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered market-competitive for many engineering, product, and quota-carrying roles, especially when factoring base, variable, and equity. In these tracks, total rewards are often characterized as fair-to-strong for the role and location.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, mental-health support, and HSA/FSA options. Employer contributions are often portrayed as strong, and core medical benefits receive consistently positive marks.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off offerings include flexible or “unlimited” PTO, paid holidays, and paid sick time, paired with widespread remote/hybrid flexibility. This breadth of time off and work flexibility is often viewed as a meaningful perk that enhances overall value.
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