Why This Opportunity Matters

The challenge isn't simply to make the platform look polished. It's to make complexity understandable. You'll help shape how learners, educators, authors, and administrators interact with large amounts of dynamic information. You'll design experiences that remain clear when data is incomplete, content varies dramatically in length, datasets grow, and users move between different levels of detail. You'll work closely with the Founder and Frontend Engineer, giving you direct influence over product direction and the way complex ideas become real, usable experiences.

What You'll Own

You'll take ownership of product design across the learner experience, administrator and authoring systems, and marketing website. Your work will include:

• Turning complex knowledge graphs and data structures into interfaces that non-technical users can understand confidently.
• Defining information hierarchy, interaction patterns, responsive behavior, visual systems, and edge cases.
• Designing meaningful data visualizations for relationships, progression, mastery, trends, distributions, and comparisons.
• Creating visualization systems where color, data encoding, legends, and navigation remain consistent across different views.
• Designing experiences that work with everything from a handful of items to hundreds or thousands of relationships.
• Accounting for real-world API behavior, including missing data, long content, empty states, loading states, errors, overflow, and variable datasets.
• Building scalable design systems with reusable components, tokens, states, variants, responsive rules, documentation, and accessibility considerations.
• Creating rapid interactive prototypes using HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Framer, or similar tools to validate ideas before implementation.
• Providing clear design annotations and handoffs that engineers can implement asynchronously.
• Collaborating directly with the Founder on product direction and with frontend engineering within a defined API boundary.
• Testing designs with real users and iterating based on evidence rather than internal opinions alone.

Desired Candidate Profile

What Makes You Successful

You'll thrive in this role if you combine strong visual judgment with genuine product thinking. We're particularly interested in designers who:

• Have strong proficiency in Figma and experience designing products that have actually shipped.
• Understand data visualization beyond simply selecting a chart type; you know when a visualization communicates effectively and when it can mislead.
• Have experience with complex visualizations such as network/graph structures, multivariate comparisons, temporal trends, or distributional views.
• Can design for real dynamic content rather than relying on perfectly controlled mock data.
• Think through edge cases and interaction states before engineering has to ask for them.
• Understand responsive design and the realities of constrained hardware and performance environments.
• Have practical knowledge of WCAG AA accessibility standards.
• Are comfortable working with APIs, technical constraints, and frontend engineers.
• Can prototype with HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Framer, or similar technologies.
• Care about typography, hierarchy, density, motion, color, interaction, and the details that make a product feel exceptional.
• Validate your work with real users and can explain decisions through user and product outcomes.

A technical, frontend, creative coding, illustration, animation, photography, or visual design background can all be valuable here.

AI & Modern Design Practice

AI is part of the modern design workflow, and our client is interested in designers who use it thoughtfully. You may work with tools such as Cursor, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Midjourney, or AI-powered design and prototyping tools. What matters isn't how many tools you've tried. We want to see how you've used AI to materially improve your speed, quality, exploration, research, prototyping, or production workflow.