Senior Product Designer

At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers.
We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in:

The Role

Instructure's assessment platform serves millions of educators and learners across K-12, higher education, and career segments. The platform is unifying multiple legacy products onto a modern foundation — a shift that changes not just what's built but how it's designed. This role owns design for features within one of its product areas as that foundation takes shape.

We're seeking a Senior Product Designer accountable for end-to-end design quality, independent user research, and experimentation across their features. They work through ambiguous problems with minimal guidance, deliver validated solutions, and connect design decisions to long-term product vision.

This is a hands-on IC role. You're the design voice for your features within the product trio, from first exploration through to what ships.

This is a high-autonomy environment. Leadership sets outcomes; you determine how to achieve them and communicate your direction proactively. You're accountable for the quality and impact of your design work, including the work AI helped produce.

You'll work hybrid on a distributed team, with occasional days in our Budapest office.

 

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end design for features across the assessment experience — creating, delivering, and grading assessments and reading the results — producing mobile-first solutions that build on the design system, meet accessibility standards, and scale for future needs

• Research how educators and learners work with assessments, running your own studies and partnering with UX Research to turn findings into design decisions

• Explore diverse directions for how your features should work as they move onto the unified platform, building functional prototypes with AI and testing them with educators and learners before the team commits to one

• Design for an institutional customer base with rigid adoption cycles, redesigning workflows that school districts and universities have built their teaching around so changes land without breaking educators' trust

• Trace how your design decisions affect related parts of the platform as it unifies, and resolve the knock-on effects early

• Partner with Product and Engineering within the product trio, shipping iteratively and gaining alignment through design reviews and critique

• Define success metrics with your Product partner and track usage, sentiment, and experiment results to show what your work changed for educators and learners

 

What You Bring

Required

• Five or more years of product design experience shipping SaaS products, with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX and UI work

• Track record of taking ambiguous problems to validated solutions with minimal guidance

• Craft across interaction and visual design, with an eye for how each feature fits the experience around it

• Build-to-learn approach to design, with functional prototypes that answer questions early

• Experimentation mindset, with the range to explore diverse directions, the judgment to pick the right test, and the candor to report inconclusive results

• Hands-on research experience across qualitative and quantitative methods, with a clear read on how far your evidence goes

• AI-first approach to product design, deciding task by task whether AI fits and owning what it produces

• Communication that ties design rationale to the outcomes it's meant to move and keeps product decisions anchored in users' needs

• Fluency in English

Preferred

• EdTech, assessment, or learning platform experience

• Experience redesigning established workflows for users who can't absorb disruption

• Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG)

• Background working across distributed teams and time zones

 

Get in on all the awesome at Instructure!

We offer competitive, meaningful benefits in every country where we operate. While they vary by location, here's a general idea of what you can expect:

• Competitive compensation, plus all full-time employees participate in our ownership program - because everyone should have a stake in our success.

• Flexible work culture. Our remote, hybrid and in-office collaboration spaces vary by role, team and location.

• Generous time off, including local holidays and our annual “Dim the Lights” period in late December, when teams are encouraged to step back and recharge based on departmental needs.

• Comprehensive wellness programs and mental health support

• Learning and development resources, including professional development tools and tuition reimbursement, to support your growth

• The technology and tools you need to do your best work

• Motivosity employee recognition program

• A culture rooted in inclusivity, support, and meaningful connection

We believe in hiring great people and treating them right. The more diverse we are, the better our ideas and outcomes.

Instructure is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We comply with applicable employment and anti-discrimination laws in every country where we operate.

All employees must pass a background check as part of the hiring process. To help protect our teams and systems, we’ve implemented identity verification measures. Candidates may be asked to verify their legal name, current physical location, and provide a valid contact number and residential address, in accordance with local data privacy laws.

Any attempt to misrepresent personal or professional information will result in disqualification.