Product Designer

Start Date: ASAP Summer 2026

Role Type: Full-Time Salaried

Location: Remote USA-based

Salary: $130000 - $160000 per year plus benefits

Who We Are:

The Modern Classrooms Project is a fast-growing 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers educators to build classrooms that respond to every students needs. Founded by two award-winning teachers we lead a movement of educators in implementing a self-paced mastery-based instructional model that leverages technology to foster human connection authentic learning and social-emotional growth.

To date our free online course and Virtual Mentorship Program have empowered almost 100000 educators in 150 countries. Weve partnered with schools and districts nationwide to train and support both teachers and administrators and researchers from Johns Hopkins University found overwhelming positive support for our approach. We are an ambitious idealistic team and we are passionate about what we do.

Job Description - Why we need you!

For our first eight years we helped educators use existing edtech tools more effectively. Now were building and piloting our software to make our research-based instructional model easier for teachers to implement. Were doing our best to make these products elegant and user-friendly but we need an outstanding designer to own how those products look feel and work for the teachers and students who use them every day. Were looking for a hands-on designer who can craft our interfaces end to end establish the design system our products are built on and make our software something teachers and students actually want to use.

This is a foundational design role. Youll work closely with our founders and senior leaders who own what we build and why while you shape the how: the user interface the interactions and the words on the screen. You wont inherit a polished design operation. Youll help build one. If youre energized by taking a product from rough to refined and by watching your work get used in a real classroom this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities - What youll do:

As our first Product Designer youll help shape the end-user experience of MCPs software. Youll report to the Chief Innovation Officer and work most closely with our Product Managers and engineering team. As the first dedicated designer for products still in their early phases youll help establish how we design and do lots of hands-on design work from journey maps to pixel-level UI to the copy in an error particular you will:

• Refine the end-to-end user experience. Map teacher student and administrator journeys; define information architecture; and design intuitive paths that hold up as the products grow. Keep a clear-eyed view of where users get confused rushed or stuck and design those moments away.
  
• Wireframe and prototype before we build. Produce quick wireframes so scope and behavior get debated cheaply in a sketch rather than expensively in shipped code then build and validate high-fidelity clickable prototypes for high-stakes flows.
  
• Build and own the design system. Create and maintain a documented component library grounded in MCPs brand and extended for product needs so engineers can compose from consistent parts instead of reinventing patterns.
  
• Bring our product design efforts in-house. Weve worked effectively with external design partners but we dont yet have a mature design operation. Youll help us establish design best practices so that everything we build meets our teachers and their students needs.
  

You should apply if:

• You do the work yourself. You can take a flow from wireframe to high-fidelity to clickable prototype and youve put your designs in front of real users to watch them struggle and succeed. You ship pixels not just opinions about them.
  
• You think in systems. You understand information architecture and design systems. You build components that scale using auto-layout variables variants and high-fidelity clickable prototypes that other designers can easily consume and you keep a product from becoming a maze of nested menus as features pile up.
  
• You test assumptions. Youve run usability tests and know that watching five people use something teaches you more than guessing with certainty. Youre curious about behavior not defensive about your designs.
  
• You write too.You treat the words in the interface as part of the design. You can make a button label an error message or a piece of feedback to a struggling 10-year-old clearer and kinder without being told to.
  
• You sweat the research - and the real-world constraints. Accessibility color contrast touch-target sizes school-issued devices and shaky classroom wifi are design inputs to you not afterthoughts. You can design web apps and learning experiences that are grounded in cognitive science learning principles.
  
• You want to shape the world. Youre motivated to be part of something larger than yourself and you believe the highest use of your craft is empowering others. Youre ready to make a real difference in educators and young peoples lives.
  

It would also be helpful if:

• You have edtech experience ideally K-12: school-issued devices district IT restrictions limited training time the rhythm of a school day and the gap between what works in a demo and what works in a real classroom.
  
• You have light front-end skills enough HTML/CSS/JS literacy to inspect a build tweak a value and make handoff frictionless (bonus if you can prototype in code).
  
• Youve designed for young children and across wide age ranges where reading level motor skills and attention vary enormously.
  

Compensation and Benefits

We aim to offer a competitive compensation package as well as the opportunity to work in a fast-growing nonprofit that is on a mission to improve education worldwide. This includes:

• Salaried position: $130000-$160000 gross salary per year
• Employer-sponsored health insurance through CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
• Employer-sponsored dental and vision insurance and ancillary benefits through MetLife
• Participation in Vanguard 403(b) deferred-compensation plan with 3% employer match
• Paid Time Off inclusive of: vacation/PTO (20 days) paid holidays paid parental leave sick and safe paid time off Me Days and the ability to earn paid Comp time off
• Annual budget for MCP-funded Continuous Learning for the program(s) you request (available after 6 months of continuous full-time employment)
• FSA and Dependent Care FSA access
• 1x Salary Life Insurance company-paid coverage
• Access to Wishbone Pet Insurance Benefit
• Ability to work remotely and to set your own hours (within reason)

STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION: The Modern Classrooms Project is committed to equal employment opportunity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color gender disability age religion sexual orientation nationality or ethnicity. We are strongly committed to hiring a diverse team and encourage applications from traditionally under-represented backgrounds.