Description

Job Title: Product Designer

Magpie is seeking a Product Designer Consultant to support our team on a 6-month contract. In this role, you’ll help shape and refine the user experience across our learning and assessment products. This includes blending user research, design strategy, and UI/UX execution in close collaboration with our Engineering, Product, and Academics teams.

You’ll contribute to creating a cohesive design system, deepen our understanding of user needs, and support product refinement efforts with clear, thoughtful design solutions.

Scope of Services & Deliverables

Strategy & Planning

• Support our Product leaders in creating an experience flow; scope and size the work
• Identify and analyze how we approach product refinements; provide consistent updates based on observations

UX Research & Planning

• Conduct background research and auditing. Identify and analyze existing experience within both Learning and Assessment products
• Define user research needs; create timelines and calendars used by the team
• Compile and analyze existing internal and external research

Design Development

• Create and uphold a design system, its components and ensure documentation is in place to guide future design and engineering work

User Research

• Conduct 1:1 teacher interviews; potential opportunities to visit schools and observe in-classroom experiences
• Facilitate/participate in EAC (Educator Advisory Council) meetings
• Identify areas for user research and create research plans, scripts, clickable prototypes, and additional testing materials as needed

Collaboration, Coordination & Handoff

• Provide Engineering Team partners throughout the build process; offer clear and comprehensive design specifications to enhance outcomes
• Offer guidance to key stakeholders and help trouble shoot issues as needed
• Create detailed review of build work to ensure design accuracy and usability
• Illustration coordination: Proactively coordinate with, and take the lead on, engaging with Magpie’s illustration contractors
• Partner with our Product Leaders in helping source and hire illustration contractors
• Stakeholder coordination: Coordinate copy and design decisions cross functionally between Academics, instructional design, Operations, and Engineering.

Script Writing

• Draft script updates; review and coordinate changes and iterations in partnership with instructional design stakeholders

Audio production

• Create audio files using AI tools
• Manage audio production + QA process

• Strong experience with UI/UX design tools (especially Figma)
• Deep understanding of learning-centered product design and user research
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Academics, Product)
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Bonus: Experience working with illustration contractors, scriptwriting, or audio production tools

What You’ll Receive:

• Hourly Rate $65-$100/hr
• Remote first team
• Opportunity to work with a mission-driven company full of change-makers

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