design
Posted Feb 26Senior E2E Product Designer
at Zen Educate
Chicago, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Design task session You’ll work on a real product problem — shaping it, exploring options, and figuring out how you think.
Requirements
- At Zen, design is evolving into a product-building discipline.
- But you’ll also be excited to own more of how things actually work and get shipped. 🧭 How this role is evolving Design at Zen is becoming more end-to-end.
- 🎯 What you’ll do Own problems end-to-end — from discovery through to shipped product Design flows, systems, and interfaces that are simple, scalable, and high-quality Stay close to the customer — building a deep understanding of educators, schools, and internal teams, and how they actually work day-to-day Build and contribute to our research machine — continuously learning through interviews, observation, data, and real product usage Turn insight into action — shaping problems, validating direction, and
- in tools like Dovetail) to shape a clear direction Rapidly exploring solutions through flows, prototypes, or lightweight builds — often going beyond or bypassing Figma Testing ideas early — through conversations, interactive prototypes, or live experiments Iterating quickly based on feedback and real usage Collaborating closely with engineers — and sometimes writing or shaping production code (e.g.
Benefits
- Done well, it improves outcomes for children and puts more money into classrooms (we’ve already saved UK schools over £50 million since 2017).
- If you like clean chaos and building things properly, you’ll thrive. 💸 Compensation Market reality.
- Compensation is based on your competitiveness in your local hiring market (note that’s not just where you live).
- We don’t believe anyone has found a great solution to global compensation, so we aim instead to be clear and equitable in how we do it.
- Solid, but not flashy compensation.
- We pay decently, but we won’t beat out companies with deeper pockets (yet!).
- Here’s what that looks like: Recruiter chat We’ll check the basics — your availability, compensation expectations, and whether this feels like a mutual fit.
- We currently have a clear need for one more Senior Product Designer to join the team — maybe it’s you? 🌍 Diversity & Inclusion At Zen, we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion, where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated for their unique traits, experiences and perspectives.