Stepful is on a mission to revolutionize vocational education. We train people with a high school education in 4 months or less and places them into healthcare jobs. Healthcare is the fastest growing industry in the US accounting for 40% of all jobs added including medical assistants, nursing assistants, and phlebotomists.

About Stepful:

Stepful partners with healthcare institutions to build talent pipelines and career pathways. We are reimagining allied healthcare training with a digital-first environment for student cohorts that prepare job-ready graduates five times faster, at a fraction of the cost. Stepful graduates, primarily from underrepresented communities, go on to work at leading healthcare institutions. Stepful is backed by Y Combinator, Reach Capital and AlleyCorp and recently closed a round led by Oak HC/FT.

The Role

As our founding Product Design Lead, you’ll be responsible for building rich, intuitive best in class experiences for students, instructors and coaches. This could include anything from designing delightful product experiences for students, maturing our design system, improving the platforms our coaches and instructors use daily and new products for Stepful partners. 

What you’ll do:

• Use your product thinking, visual design, and system steward skills to design rich, intuitive best in class experiences for students, instructors and coaches 
• Be involved in every step of the process, including project prioritization and planning, conducting research, writing jobs to be done, mapping user flows, creating wireframes, prototyping, and designing high-fidelity UI across our native and web apps
• Leverage both quantitative and qualitative data to guide your design decisions and utilize a hypothesis driven experimental mindset 
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, growth and operations to address challenges, manage trade-offs and get the team excited 
• Own and mature our design system to evolve our patterns, components, styles and patterns across all products

This job is for you if you have:

• 5+ years of work experience with a focus on product design and UI across a variety of platforms like iOS, web or others.
• A deep understanding of the tech that powers digital products, and how to collaborate with engineering to make the most of emerging capabilities 
• Ability context switch and apply a wide variety of product design skills (e.g., design thinking, design strategy, user problem definition, information architecture, service design)
• Experience leading user research to understand underlying pain points and needs 
• Experience building relationships with teammates, influencing decisions at a variety of levels and across multiple teams

Bonus Points If:

• You have previous startup experience especially at B2B2C or B2C  EdTech/Healthcare  companies
• Experience with A/B testing or other experiment/data driven product development organizations

At Stepful, we're an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Our current stack is based on Postgres, Rails and React.

We are building the best student experience ever!