Product Designer

Your Impact  You will be part of a talented cross functional team that is changing the way that learners and course administrators engage with online education around the world!

Your Team The Experience team within edX is growing! Our embedded Agile structure allows the group to influence and shape the user experience across the edX platform. In this role, you’ll partner closely with members of product design, product management, and engineering to improve how millions of learners interact with each other. 

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

Collaborating with product and engineering to understand and capture the constraints and opportunities that inform your UX design

Designing low and medium concept flows to improve our platform for learners, content creators, or enterprise administrators

Leveraging our design system to produce select portions of your work in high fidelity to support translation to engineering

Contributing back to the design system in Figma as needed when new component or iteration opportunities arise 

Capturing the thinking and decisions behind your work while sharing early and often with the project and experience team members

Ability to clearly articulate the rationale behind your decisions

Attention to detail and follow through in producing multiple iterations of your work to reach the best solution for the project

Concept validation using User Zoom and other customer research tools

You Have

Recent experience in a product design (UX/UI) role ~3+ years

The desire to partner with a cross-functional team to reach great solutions

Experience with delivering design work for Product Development in an Agile environment

Communication skills (verbal and written) that build and foster collaborative relationships with people at all levels of the organization

A keen eye for visual design, aesthetics, and detail

Experience with designing within brand standards and design systems

Experience with concept validation research and usability testing

Ability and drive to successfully engage and self-manage work while operating within a team

Passion for inspiring others in the org to engage with customers, design thinking and UX/UI best practices

Nice to Have

High fidelity design capabilities

Microcopy writing

Discovery facilitation experience

Moderated research chops

About edX edX is the education movement for restless learners. Together with our founding partners Harvard and MIT, we’ve brought together more than 38 million learners, the majority of top-ranked universities in the world, and industry-leading companies onto one online learning platform that supports learners at every stage. And we’re not stopping there—as a global nonprofit, we’re relentlessly pursuing our vision of a world where every learner can access education to unlock their potential, without the barriers of cost or location. About 2U, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWOU) 2U is comprised of 3 lines of business: Graduate Degree Programs, Short Course, and Boot Camps. Going beyond traditional learning management systems, we use tech, people, and data to help top universities and enterprise organizations transform in the digital era—and eliminate the back row in higher ed. We support lifelong learning which means thinking beyond a single degree. It means finding ways for students to gain the skills they need to change careers, evolve their expertise, and meet the challenges of the changing world head-on. We help our partners fill those needs—developing new digital education technologies and offerings capable of supporting students at different points in their lives. Whether they need a simple refresher, to learn something new, or to change their career trajectories completely, our partners are there to help them succeed. Together with our partners, 2U has positively transformed the lives of more than 275,000 students and lifelong learners.  2U Diversity and Inclusion Statement At 2U, we are committed to creating and sustaining a culture that embodies diverse walks of life, ideas, genders, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities and other unique qualities of our employees. We strive to offer a workplace where every employee feels empowered by the ways in which we are different, as well as the ways in which we are the same.  Benefits & Culture Working at 2U means working with individuals that are passionate and mission driven. We collaborate on tough problems to deliver the best outcomes for our partners, students, and each other. You will find team members working together in our open office spaces, gathered in the kitchen grabbing a snack, or taking a break in our game rooms. 2U offers a comprehensive benefits package:

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Life insurance, disability and 401(k)

Unlimited snacks and drinks

Generous paid leave policies including unlimited PTO

• Additional time off benefits include: volunteer days, parental leave, and a company-wide winter break

To learn more, visit 2U.com. ## NoBackRow Note: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. 2U is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against applicants or employees and ensures equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of their race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital status, disability, citizenship, military or veterans’ status, or any other classifications protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. 2U’s equal opportunity policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, job benefits and pay.