Part-Time Product Designer (Product + Lifecycle)
Opportunity Education is seeking a part-time Product Designer to help shape the experience of our applications used by educators and students in the United States and Tanzania.
This role focuses on designing high-quality product experiences across our core applications, while also supporting key user touchpoints such as onboarding flows and lifecycle emails that drive engagement and retention.
This role is for a consultant available up to 20 hours per week. This role is fully remote, with preference for candidates based in Denver.
Responsibilities
The Designer is responsible for the following activities and outcomes:
• Design user interfaces and responsive layouts for web apps and mobile apps used by educators and students.
• Design onboarding and lifecycle experiences, including email campaigns and key touchpoints, that drive user activation, engagement, and retention.
• Define user experiences and flows that make our applications intuitive, useful, and efficient in real classroom settings.
• Ground all design work in a clear understanding of user intentions and the problems we are solving.
• Define the user experiences and flows needed to make OE's apps fun, helpful, and easy to use.
• Write and refine clear, concise headings, instructions, and supporting UI text throughout the product and related communications.
• Use Figma to deliver complete, high-quality design assets and documentation for engineering.
• Serve as a thought partner to other product team members, thoughtfully reviewing and giving feedback on scopes, designs, and other deliverables.
• Work closely with engineers to ensure designs are implemented accurately and efficiently.
• Independently manage design timelines and maintain pace with a fast-moving team.
Personal Characteristics
The Opportunity Education team is distributed across various US and overseas locations. To work effectively, the Product Designer should display the following characteristics:
• Strong attention to detail
• Deep understanding of experience design (beyond interface design)
• High standard of quality and ability to evaluate your work critically
• Commitment to timeliness and deadlines established by the organization
• Ability to work very efficiently on your own, and know when to reach out and collaborate
• Ability and commitment to give and receive thoughtful and respectful feedback
• Have strong beliefs, loosely held, about what is best for our products and our end users
• Clear and effective communication skills
Qualifications
Required:
• 4+ years of experience leading UI/UX design for an app or web tool
• A portfolio of design work that includes mobile and web apps
• Experience designing end-to-end user flows, not just screens
• Excellent with Figma
• Proficient with Jira and other collaboration tools
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, collaborative team environment
Preferred:
• Experience designing onboarding, lifecycle, or growth-related user experiences (e.g., emails, activation flows)
• Based in or near the Denver area
About Opportunity Education
Opportunity Education (OE) is a non-profit foundation focused on learning innovation in the US and overseas. With a fully remote team of 20+ in the US, and an in-office team of 18 in Tanzania, we create resources, curriculum and tools needed by teachers to enable students to engage, own their learning process, and learn effectively from feedback.
OE was founded by entrepreneur philanthropist Joe Ricketts in 2005 and has served over 1 million students in 11 countries. For more about our work, visit us at www.opportunityeducation.org.
To apply or for more information about the role, contact us at [email protected]
This role focuses on designing high-quality product experiences across our core applications, while also supporting key user touchpoints such as onboarding flows and lifecycle emails that drive engagement and retention.
This role is for a consultant available up to 20 hours per week. This role is fully remote, with preference for candidates based in Denver.
Responsibilities
The Designer is responsible for the following activities and outcomes:
• Design user interfaces and responsive layouts for web apps and mobile apps used by educators and students.
• Design onboarding and lifecycle experiences, including email campaigns and key touchpoints, that drive user activation, engagement, and retention.
• Define user experiences and flows that make our applications intuitive, useful, and efficient in real classroom settings.
• Ground all design work in a clear understanding of user intentions and the problems we are solving.
• Define the user experiences and flows needed to make OE's apps fun, helpful, and easy to use.
• Write and refine clear, concise headings, instructions, and supporting UI text throughout the product and related communications.
• Use Figma to deliver complete, high-quality design assets and documentation for engineering.
• Serve as a thought partner to other product team members, thoughtfully reviewing and giving feedback on scopes, designs, and other deliverables.
• Work closely with engineers to ensure designs are implemented accurately and efficiently.
• Independently manage design timelines and maintain pace with a fast-moving team.
Personal Characteristics
The Opportunity Education team is distributed across various US and overseas locations. To work effectively, the Product Designer should display the following characteristics:
• Strong attention to detail
• Deep understanding of experience design (beyond interface design)
• High standard of quality and ability to evaluate your work critically
• Commitment to timeliness and deadlines established by the organization
• Ability to work very efficiently on your own, and know when to reach out and collaborate
• Ability and commitment to give and receive thoughtful and respectful feedback
• Have strong beliefs, loosely held, about what is best for our products and our end users
• Clear and effective communication skills
Qualifications
Required:
• 4+ years of experience leading UI/UX design for an app or web tool
• A portfolio of design work that includes mobile and web apps
• Experience designing end-to-end user flows, not just screens
• Excellent with Figma
• Proficient with Jira and other collaboration tools
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, collaborative team environment
Preferred:
• Experience designing onboarding, lifecycle, or growth-related user experiences (e.g., emails, activation flows)
• Based in or near the Denver area
About Opportunity Education
Opportunity Education (OE) is a non-profit foundation focused on learning innovation in the US and overseas. With a fully remote team of 20+ in the US, and an in-office team of 18 in Tanzania, we create resources, curriculum and tools needed by teachers to enable students to engage, own their learning process, and learn effectively from feedback.
OE was founded by entrepreneur philanthropist Joe Ricketts in 2005 and has served over 1 million students in 11 countries. For more about our work, visit us at www.opportunityeducation.org.
To apply or for more information about the role, contact us at [email protected]