Product Designer

Minerva Project

. Understand user workflows, goals, pain points, and priorities through conversations, support feedback, research, and usage data .

Posted 10/13/2026full-timeRemoteMid-LevelSenior💰 $70,000 - $125,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in user-centered design, including proficiency in Figma for creating prototypes and designs that prioritize accessibility and responsive behavior. Capable of collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into practical design solutions.

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Figma PrototypingUser ResearchAccessibility DesignInteraction DesignCollaboration with Engineers

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Hard Skills

User Workflow AnalysisDesign PrototypingResponsive Web DesignDesign System DevelopmentVisual Clarity in DesignEdge Case IdentificationDocumentation of Design DecisionsInteraction DesignComplex Workflow HandlingAI Tools for Design Workflow

Soft Skills

Clear Written CommunicationFeedback IncorporationProblem FramingQuestioning and InquiryDistributed Team Collaboration

Industry Keywords

Education SoftwareBusiness ApplicationsMobile Web ExperiencesUser FeedbackDesign Critique

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Understand user workflows, goals, pain points, and priorities through conversations, support feedback, research, and usage data
Map user flows and create designs and prototypes in Figma
Identify user-role needs, permissions, empty states, errors, and edge cases
Design clear layouts, hierarchy, responsive behavior, and accessible interactions
Write labels, instructions, warnings, and confirmations
Reuse established design-system components and identify when new patterns are needed
Collaborate with engineering to keep Figma designs consistent with the implemented product
Explore design options, explain tradeoffs, and account for technical constraints
Clarify scope and choose practical approaches the team can build
Document intended behavior, edge cases, and design decisions for implementation and review
Seek critique early and incorporate feedback
Review implementations, identify confusing or broken interactions, and help resolve them
Observe real product usage and feed findings into future design decisions
Collaborate with another designer, engineers, product leadership, and technology leadership
Own design decisions while product leadership owns prioritization, roadmap commitments, and business goals

Requirements

What you’ll need

Portfolio with 1–2 relevant software design projects
Examples demonstrating contribution, reasoning, and ability to use feedback
Portfolio showing interaction design, visual clarity, and thoughtful handling of complex workflows
Working knowledge of Figma, including components and prototyping
Willingness to develop skills within an established design system
Understanding of accessibility and responsive web design
Ability to identify missing information, ask useful questions, and make reasonable progress amid uncertainty
Clear written communication and ability to explain design decisions to people with different backgrounds
Ability to communicate progress, questions, and blockers and follow through in a distributed team
For experienced candidates, shipped work and collaboration with engineers
For senior candidates, evidence of framing ambiguous problems, improving patterns across multiple workflows, and helping teammates make stronger design decisions
Experience with education software, complex business applications, user research, or mobile web experiences would be useful
Experience using AI tools for design workflow is a plus
Ability to maintain regular working-hour overlap with the team
Resume or profile and portfolio required for application

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully remote work
Opportunity to work with a distributed team
Regular working-hour overlap with the team
Design ownership in collaboration with the existing team
Guidance and regular review from an experienced designer for junior designers
Collaboration with engineers, product, and technology leadership
Participation in a mission-driven company improving education
Hiring process includes sharing exercise scope, expected time commitment, and interview details before each stage