Senior Product Designer, Instructure
Assessments
$120-150k
Dynamic learning management platform
Be an early applicant
Dynamic learning management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$120-150k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To elevate student success, amplify the power of teaching, and inspire everyone to learn together.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of experience designing for large scale digital products
- A portfolio representing your strong design work (visual and UX) on complex digital products
- Self-motivated with a passion for design
- Strong problem solving skills
- Strong storytelling and communication skills, verbal and written
- Strong work ethic, sense of accountability and ownership
- Strong attention to detail and a systematic thinker
- Highly self-motivated, with experience leveraging Design Systems
- Great team player who is comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment
- The ability to iterate rapidly
- Familiarity of user expectations and usage for mobile
- Prototyping experience (such as inVision, Figma) desired
- Experience with designing mobile first and responsive web design
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our collaborative and motivated team
- You have a passion for combining seamless interaction with beautiful visual design
- Your work is easy to navigate, logically organized, engaging, and accessible
- Your designs reflect the highest standard of usability and simplicity to the millions we serve
- Play an influential role in designing workflows for educators, students, and people that support teaching and learning
- Partner closely with product managers and developers to solve complex problems and ensure the highest quality solutions
- Be an advocate for A11y best practices
- Work with a rapid, iterative mindset, being open and flexible to changes based on user feedback
- Initiate and lead research activities with our customers and users
- Measure the success of products after release
- Build prototypes for user testing
- Use and contribute to a design system to create products with consistent interactions and a shared visual language
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to ensure the highest quality designs and functionality
- All Instructure employees are required to successfully pass a background check upon being hired
Our take
Instructure is an education technology company, creator of the Canvas Learning Management Platform that allows schools to build the digital learning environment that meets the unique challenges faced by their institution. The platform simplifies teaching, elevates learning, and eliminates the headaches of supporting and growing traditional learning technologies.
The Canvas platform has grown to become a key part of a large number of educational institutions, from pre-school to higher education and beyond. Much of Instructure's workforce is dedicated to R&D, which is unusual for a company of their size, and shows their focus on innovating.
Founded back in 2008, the company has claimed numerous successes, including going international and hitting the $1 billion market cap. It has made a number of acquisitions, most recently of Concentric Sky and LearnPlatform. The former saw Instructure incorporate Sky's "Badgr" into its ecosystem as "Canvas Badges", whereas the latter adds evidence-based insights to the platform - both cementing its commitment to building the education industry's most integrated teaching and learning platform to support lifelong learning.
Instructure was itself acquired in 2024 by KKR, which will support a broad-based equity ownership program for Instructure employees. This strategy is based on a strategy of employee ownership as a cause of stronger companies. The move is a promising one considering KKRs track record of acquired companies, but time will tell how Intructure fares.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2016
$4m
SERIES A
Aug 2015
$1.5m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $5.5m
Company benefits
- Equity and 401k
- Medical, dental, disability, and life insurance
- HSA program, vision, voluntary life, and AD&D
- Tuition reimbursement
- Work-from-home flexibility and flex time off
- Gym club reimbursements and rewards-based fitness tracking
- Professional learning and career development opportunities, including Basecamp Employee Development Week!
- An innovative community of passionate educators and learners
Company values
- Openness - We’re open to new people, new ideas, and new opportunities. We strive to be collaborative in our projects, transparent about our intentions, and curious about how things work and how to make them better. Open minds open doors
- Relationships - We're all about building meaningful relationships based on trust, respect, and mutual success, whether they're peer-peer, teacher-student, manager-employee, or company-customer. People come first
- Equality - We aspire to offer an inclusive and welcoming culture, and we believe people deserve equal access to opportunities and resources. You can't have equality without equity
- Ownership - We're all accountable for excellence in our work and our actions, and we stand behind our products and services. Say. Do. Repeat
- Simplicity - Our software makes lifelong learning easier. We strive for clarity and ease of use across the board, from product design to communication to customer experience. Simpler is smarter
Company HQ
Cottonwood Heights, UT
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Leadership
Steve Daly
(CEO, not founder)They have a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MBA in Strategy and Finance with more than 20 years experience in hardware and software industries.
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