Senior E2E Product Designer

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.

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.

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.