About the Role
Join a small, cross-functional team to build next-generation products from the ground up. This 0-to-1 role involves partnering with product managers, engineers, and leadership to transform complex, ambiguous problems into intuitive solutions while helping shape the design culture at Timely.
Responsibilities
- Partner with product management to decompose problems, evaluate options, and define design solutions.
- Lead product discovery through customer interviews, workshops, and collaborative ideation.
- Conceptualize and design intuitive user flows and information architecture for complex administrative workflows.
- Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for web applications.
- Collaborate with engineering to ensure design feasibility within technical constraints.
- Contribute to and support the design system to ensure a cohesive platform experience.
- Conduct user interviews and usability testing to uncover insights and validate assumptions.
- Prototype and validate ideas rapidly before full development cycles.
Requirements
- Experience in Product Design or Design Engineering in a B2B SaaS or adjacent environment.
- Strong design thinking, facilitation, and user research skills.
- Demonstrated expertise using design tools like Figma.
- Experience contributing to design systems alongside engineering teams.
- Understanding of basic front-end development principles.
- Comfortable using AI in daily workflows for ideation, prototyping, and validation.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and define solutions for loosely defined problems.
- Strong cross-functional communication and alignment skills.
- Systems thinking mindset focused on consistency and scalability.
Skills
- Design thinking
- Facilitation
- User research
- Figma
- Design systems
- Front-end development principles
- AI-assisted design workflows
- Prototyping
- Information architecture
Experience Level
- Early-stage startup experience preferred
- EdTech experience preferred
About the Company
- Timely uses AI technology and expert school schedulers to help schools create efficient, high-quality schedules.
- The company serves districts and charter school organizations across 15+ states.
- Focused on a mission-driven, people-centered approach to educational innovation.
