Product Designer

Mission

To ensure that Element451 has the best user interface design of any product in its category, on par with industry leaders like Trello, Hubspot, and Asana.

Location

Anywhere in the world

Overview

Element451 is the #1 student engagement CRM. Leading higher ed institutions rely on us to manage their student enrollment cycle, from initial outreach through application and enrollment. Our product integrates rich, empathetic UI with powerful AI and automation technology to deliver the best experience in a higher education CRM, bar none.

Our global, distributed product team is ambitious, fun, passionate, and crazy talented. We are looking for an outstanding product designer to become a pivotal part of moving our product forward. You would take responsibility for interfaces that clients around the country rely on every day to get their job done. If you are motivated by empowering users through beautiful design and imagining new ways to use cutting edge technology, this job is for you!

Get to know us with this walkthrough video for the role: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWBHucCJyh0

When you apply for this job, we encourage you to send us a brief video of your own! Please see “How to Apply” below.

Key Competencies

Everyone who works at Element451 has to be aligned with our core values. For this particular role you must also have:

Passion for making people’s lives easier through smart design
Desire to learn from product outcomes and user feedback, even when in contradiction to one’s own original ideas
The ability to understand our highly technical and complex product and business realities. Your work has to not only be beautiful, but to make sense for our application.
The ability to create and maintain a complex but organized design system within Figma, integrating nested components, variants, styles, and multiple files
Interest and passion for in creating accessible design work that serves the most users possible
Working understanding of web development principles
Exceptional reliability and follow-through on commitments and agreements as a part of our a remote, global team
Interest in working in the Higher Education space and improving outcomes for schools and students

Outcomes

Your goals will be:

Contribute to improving our Net Promoter Score by at least 0.5 points in your first year
Ensure that the development team is never blocked waiting on design for more than 48 hours
Contribute to improving our client yearly renewal rate by 10%

Typical Work

A normal week would see you:

Perform user research and interviews
Work on feature specification documents in collaboration with Product leadership
Create user flows of complex products that often span several scenarios.
Create low-fidelity prototypes, ideally in Figma. Extra points if you have any experience prototyping animations.
Build out your ideas in Figma, integrating seamlessly with our robust design system.
Ensure that design work is accessible, using manual and automated testing
Be involved in brainstorming meetings together with several stakeholders, where you are expected to go through designs; or create video walkthroughs (we use Loom frequently).

Compensation

We offer competitive salaries and great benefits. We are considering candidates for whom a fair salary would be between $75k and $100k USD, but if you feel you would be a great fit but are outside of that range don’t hesitate to reach out and let us know.

Benefits include:

401k plan available after 3 months of employment
Company Health Insurance
Work from home anywhere in the world
11 company holidays and 20 days of paid time off

How to Apply

Please apply at our LinkedIn posting or email design.jobs@element451.com with some information about you, your portfolio, and the reason you are interested in this role. If you can, please also record a 3-5 minute video using Loom or another video capture tool introducing yourself and your work.