[Hiring] Product Designer @Minerva Project

Role Description

We're looking for a product designer who can make complex software clear and usable, and carry a design from understanding the problem through implementation and review.

• Work closely with another designer, engineers, and product and technology leadership.
• Enjoy hands-on design, ask thoughtful questions, and explain the reasoning behind your work.
• Welcome junior, mid-level, and senior candidates.
• Junior designers will work on defined projects with guidance and regular review from an experienced designer.
• Mid-level designers will independently carry defined product work through implementation.
• Senior designers will take broader ownership of ambiguous problems and patterns shared across the product.

What you'll do

• Understand the workflow:
  • Learn what users are trying to accomplish, where the current experience breaks down, and which parts of the problem matter most.
  • Use conversations, support feedback, research, and usage data to inform your work.
• Design coherent experiences:
  • Map flows and create designs and prototypes in Figma.
  • Work with teammates to identify what each user role needs, including permissions, empty states, errors, and other important edge cases.
• Make the interface clear:
  • Design layouts, hierarchy, responsive behavior, and accessible interactions.
  • Write useful labels, instructions, warnings, and confirmations.
• Work with the existing design system:
  • Reuse established components where they fit.
  • Identify when a new pattern is needed and work with engineering to keep Figma and the implemented product consistent.
• Make practical tradeoffs:
  • Explore options and explain their strengths and limitations.
  • Work with experienced teammates to understand technical constraints, agree on scope, and choose an approach the team can build.
• Make your work easy to build and review:
  • Keep designs, intended behavior, edge cases, and decision notes clear enough that teammates can follow them without a live walkthrough.
  • Seek critique early and use it to improve the work.
• Follow the design into the product:
  • Review implementations with teammates, identify confusing or broken interactions, and help resolve them.
  • Learn how design decisions translate into the shipped product.
• Learn from real use:
  • Look for places where people get stuck or behave differently than expected, and bring those findings back into the next design decision.

What you'll bring

• Examples of software design work that show your contribution, reasoning, and ability to use feedback.
• A portfolio that shows interaction design, visual clarity, and thoughtful handling of complex workflows.
• Working knowledge of Figma, including components and prototyping, and a willingness to develop your skills within an established design system.
• An understanding of accessibility and responsive web design, and an interest in learning the details that help people complete tasks successfully.
• The ability to identify missing information, ask useful questions, and make reasonable progress while uncertainty is being resolved.
• Clear written communication, openness to critique, and the ability to explain design decisions to people with different backgrounds.
• Clear communication about progress, questions, and blockers, and the ability to follow through on agreed work in a distributed team.
• 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 to support exploration, prototyping, or other parts of your design workflow is a plus.

Working together

• This position is fully remote. We welcome candidates anywhere in the world who can maintain regular working-hour overlap with the team.
• You'll own design decisions for your work in collaboration with the existing team.
• Product leadership will own prioritization, roadmap commitments, and the business goals that guide it.

Hiring process

• Our hiring process includes an initial conversation, a design exercise and review discussion, conversations about collaboration with engineering, and a final conversation with product and technology leadership.
• We'll share the exercise scope, expected time commitment, and interview details before each stage.

What to share

• Please share your resume or profile and a portfolio with 1–2 relevant projects.
• Show the problem, your role, the constraints, how the design changed, and what you learned.
• Professional, internship, coursework, and substantial personal projects are welcome.
• Anonymized case studies are welcome when your work is confidential.