Product Designer (Contract) at Amplify

Job Description

Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. We work on digital, print, environmental, interactive, and animation projects. We have a strong hands-on and highly collaborative approach to both product development and graphic design systems and ensure ideas are realized to the highest standards of execution.

Product Designers at Amplify combine Visual and UX Design, leveraging a basic understanding of the elements behind front-end websites and digital components, to craft insightful and relevant digital layouts that cater directly to the needs of our young learners and their teachers. As a member of Amplify Literacy Suites ELA design team you will partner with a diverse cross-functional product team of designers, product owners, interaction developers, and curriculum experts to build ELA’s 3rd Edition Curriculum.

This is a contract role expected to end 7/2026.

Essential Responsibilities

Lead design problem solving to drive compelling interactive user interfaces
Develop consistent, polished visual designs reflective of a design system
Establish a streamlined design process, including feedback from stakeholders and planning for additional assets
Maintain and champion style guides, applying them to new designs
Moderate and manage content migration into design templates
Prepare and present design work to internal teams and key stakeholders for review
Collaborate closely with Design, Product, and Content teams to gather requirements, ensure quality, define scope and direction of projects
Collaborate with Digital Production teams to maintain cohesive libraries of digital assets in CMSs
Prepare and communicate design solutions to internal teams and key stakeholders
Drive and participate in creative brainstorming, concept development, and design execution
Participate in and conduct collaborative discussions, including listening closely and providing honest, thoughtful feedback to colleagues
Utilize strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal, and listening)

Required Qualifications

2+ years experience with digital visual design, digital product development, or equivalent experience with a BA degree in related field or combination of education and experience.
Demonstrated capability in synthesizing graphic design principles and user-centric design approaches with a specialized skill set in typography and layout design
Keen eye for detail, including the ability to perform design QA and discuss feasible alternatives with developers
Experience in managing design feedback cycles and production schedules
Comfort and confidence in presenting your work at various development stages
Experience collaborating in multifunctional teams as a design lead
Expertise with Adobe CC, Figma and an openness to learning and using unfamiliar tools and software
Experience with Agile processes
Experience with Content Management Systems (CMSs)
Experience designing responsive desktop layout experiences
Portfolio showing a high level of design skills and recent work
Basic knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS to be able to speak with and iterate on solutions with developers

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with digital product design in education technology or a related field
Enthusiasm for contributing to the landscape of literacy education
Experience designing with Accessibility as a priority
Demonstrated ability to work iteratively with customers to gather and document user experience requirements
A formal education in Graphic Design, Web Design, Interaction Design, Communication Design, User Experience or related field
Experience with interactive motion design or games
Any lived experience with teaching or tutoring students ages K-12