Lead Product Designer

Bedrock Learning, Inc. (https://thebedrock.co) is revolutionizing professional continuing education for enterprises with global interests. Its main product is an enterprise SaaS social learning network that, for users, offers coursework, “serious” games, and informational streams that are all inherently collaborative. For customers, Bedrock offers powerful analytics and insights to inform human capital strategy, leadership selection, and assignments. We aim for Bedrock to contribute to a more secure and prosperous world by improving how a wide variety of professionals learn, think, decide, and act. This is your chance to join an early-stage startup and deeply shape the look and feel of our core products.

This is your chance to join an early-stage startup and help design our products from the beginning. You won’t have to live with someone else’s design system – it’ll be yours. 

We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to help lead product design for Bedrock, build out our design system, and help build a world-class product design team. This role will report to the Vice President of Product. This role will start out very hands-on and evolve as our product design team and company grows.

Bedrock is DC-based. We are open to in-person, hybrid, and remote (U.S. only).

• Lead day-to-day product design with the VP of Product 
• Work closely with VP of Product to define product design vision
• Contribute to the development of our product strategy for B2B and B2G spaces and help identify new opportunities
• Build out our design system in Figma and Coda
• Produce beautiful, finished designs based on wireframes and verbal and written requirements
• Use industry-standard tools (e.g. Figma) to communicate designs to the development and product teams
• Mentor and provide feedback to product designers
• Conduct UX research studies to understand user needs
• Test and validate prototypes
• Follow a user-centered design process and be a relentless advocate for our users
• Encourage a design culture in which customer feedback and user research are included throughout the course of product development
• Design products that people want to use every day

Requirements

• 7+ years of product and ux design experience
• 2+ years of user research experience, including user interviewing, usability testing, prototype testing, card sorting, etc. 
• Understand and advocate for a user-centered design process built around research-backed hypotheses, prototyping, and testing
• Previous experience designing UIs that have been loved by real users
• Experience designing mobile-responsive web applications that conform to various screen sizes
• A portfolio containing at least 3 previous design projects
• Demonstrated competency in accessibility – 508 and WCAG 2.1 compliance 
• BS in a design or related field or comparable experience
• Strong Figma skills, including branching and version control

Benefits

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• Annual and performance-based bonuses 
• Healthcare, dental, and vision 100% of premiums covered for employees
• Paid parental leave of 12 weeks
  

Bedrock Learning, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.