Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blackboard is a company focused on building innovative educational products, and they are seeking a Founding Brand Product Designer for a new consumer AI product. The role involves designing and building new features, shipping UI to engineering, and contributing to the design system while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Design and build new AI features end to end
- Help shape how the product looks, feels, and behaves alongside the product lead
- Ship UI to engineering through Subframe
- Run user testing and feed what you learn back into the work
- Contribute to the design system as it grows
- Hold a high bar on typography, layout, motion, and detail
- Weigh in on product direction and priorities
Skills
- Strong portfolio across product and brand, shipping things people like using
- World-class visual craft, hands on the work yourself, with strong motion chops
- Sharp product thinker who can hold your own on what should be built, not just how it looks
- Embraced AI in your workflow, fluent on orchestrating agents with skills
- Move fast from idea to shipped, close to engineers, comfortable in ambiguity
- Comfortable with auto layout in Figma (most of what you need to pick up Subframe)
- Plays well with another strong designer already on the team
- Founding or early-stage experience
- Creative coding
- Front-end skills
- Prior Subframe experience
- Background in education, health, wellness, or behavior change
Company Overview
Blackboard provides enterprise technology and innovative solutions that enhance teaching and learning methods. It is a sub-organization of Class Technologies. It was founded in 1997, and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.blackboard.com.