Product Designer

1 month ago

San Francisco, United States ApplyBoard, Inc. Full time

ApplyBoard simplifies the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and educational institutions on one intuitive and personalized platform. ApplyBoard is a mission-driven, hyper-growth organization. It has been attracting dedicated individuals for more than eight years who are inspired every day to break down barriers to international education and take their careers to new heights at a company that will invest in their career growth. Our six core values are our compass in our mission to Educate the World and the foundation of our unique company culture. As an organization built on a foundation of diversity, it's important that our team members are representative of the students from more than 150 countries that we support.

The Opportunity:

As a Product Designer, you will envision and create useful, usable, and delightful products for our users. You will be collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify user needs, test possibilities, iterate towards valuable and elegant user-centric solutions that satisfy and delight. You live and breathe design-thinking, and restlessly seek to understand and empathize with users and other stakeholders, reduce complex systems into simple contexts, align teams on a user-centric solution, test and improve, and share your knowledge with others.

What you'll be doing every day:

  • Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, marketing, and other designers to explore, create, and ship your designs.
  • Identify user needs through qualitative and quantitative research methods including interviews and surveys and usability tests
  • Ensure team alignment on user needs and simply complexities by mapping and sharing user insights (e.g., through empathy maps, journey maps, personas)Ideate with teams and visualize flows and interactions with user flows, task flows, wireframes, and lo/hi fidelity prototypes
  • Validate solutions and test hypotheses by planning, conducting, and reporting results of usability tests
  • Iterate based on user feedback, stakeholder feedback, and design critiques.
  • Ensure the design is communicated clearly and effectively to product development teams and implemented to match your design specification.
  • Influence, contribute to, and maintain our design system, design standards, research and operational processes
  • Champion a user-centered mindset in the organization and cultivate a culture of collaboration within and across teams.
What you bring to the table:
  • 3+ years of experience in UX/Product design
  • Bachelors or Masters degree in design, human computer interaction or related fields
  • Passion for solving product problems while balancing all aspects of user experience (strategy, information, interaction design, etc.)
  • A deep and broad understanding of the end-to-end iterative design process, including user research and testing, stakeholder alignment, information architecture, content, interaction design, design specification and communication.
  • Proficiency in interaction design across various devices and platforms (responsive design and native mobile experience)Proficiency in conducting user research and usability testing
  • Experience collaborating closely with multiple disciplines, including product and engineering
  • Experience with design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Miro, and Confluence.
  • A portfolio that reflects your design process and expertise in web and mobile; articulates problems, goals, and outcomes (for users and business); and shows evidence of research, testing and design iterations.
  • Excellent organizational, time and project management skills
  • Compelling storytelling and presentation skills
  • Demonstrated ability to perform in an agile, start-up or scale-up environment


About ApplyBoard

ApplyBoard empowers students around the world to access the best education. With more than 1,000,000 students from over 150 countries helped with their journey in less than a decade, we are just getting started.

ApplyBoard's 1,200 global team members in 30 countries assist students and our 1,500 partner institutions by empowering the international student sector with innovative technology and insights. As a five-time consecutive Deloitte Fast 50 and Fast 500 ranked company, ApplyBoard is growing and scaling like few other companies. On top of our strong growth, our people are growing personally and professionally. ApplyBoard India was Great Place to Work® Institute (India) certified for outstanding employee experience and workplace culture.

Thank you for your interest in joining the ApplyBoard Team and being part of our mission to Educate the World. While we are lucky to attract a high level of interest in each of our roles, only qualified applicants will be contacted and selected for an interview.

ApplyBoard welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates in all aspects of the hiring and selection process.

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