{"id":3450731,"url":"https://alion.io/job/zen-educate-senior-e2e-product-designer-2","title":"Senior E2E Product Designer","company":{"id":51639,"name":"Zen Educate","domain":"zeneducate.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/zen-educate","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":92,"open_postings":17,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.118,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":133,"computed_at":"2026-11-02T06:13:15Z"}},"role":"Design","role_family":"Design","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":76000,"max_usd":128000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":57},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"Figma","optional":false},{"name":"Lovable","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-29T09:38:45Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-29","last_verified_at":"2026-11-02T12:27:09Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"High-level bits to keep in mind\nLocation: Our HQ is based in London (Oval)\nType: Full-time\nAbout the role\nHi, I’m JC, Head of Design at Zen Educate.\nI started sketching out the first versions of our product on evenings and weekends - before we had a team, a logo, or an office. Today, I lead our growing design function as we take on more complex, ambitious challenges across the UK and US.\nWe’re looking for a Senior Product Designer who wants to do meaningful work at the intersection of service, system, and interface design - and is excited by the idea of not just designing solutions, but helping bring them to life end-to-end.\nThis is not a traditional design role.\nAt Zen, design is evolving into a product-building discipline. That means moving fluidly from problem framing → flows → prototypes → real, working product - often within the same role.\nYou’ll still care deeply about users, clarity, and craft. But you’ll also be excited to own more of how things actually work and get shipped.\nHow this role is evolving\nDesign at Zen is becoming more end-to-end.\nOur designers don’t just define problems and create interfaces they increasingly shape solutions, prototype them in code, and help ship them into production.\nWith tools like Lovable, Claude, and others, the line between design, product, and engineering is blurring. We’re leaning into that.\nIn practice, this means:\nMoving faster from idea → prototype → live product.\nOwning more of the “how it works,” not just “how it looks”.\nReducing handoffs and increasing accountability.\nTreating design as a core product-building discipline, not a stage in a process.\nYou don’t need to be an engineer, but you should be motivated to take ideas beyond design and into real, shipped product experiences.\nWhat you’ll do\nOwn problems end-to-end - from discovery through to shipped product.\nDesign flows, systems, and interfaces that are simple, scalable, and high-quality.\nStay close to the customer - building a deep understanding of educators, schools, and internal teams, and how they actually work day-to-day.\nBuild and contribute to our research machine continuously learning through interviews, observation, data, and real product usage.\nTurn insight into action shaping problems, validating direction, and informing what gets built (not just justifying decisions after the fact).\nCreate fast feedback loops - testing ideas early through prototypes, conversations, and live experiments.\nPrototype and validate ideas quickly, using modern tools (including AI-assisted ones).\nBring ideas to life beyond static design, exploring interaction, logic, and behaviour in real environments.\nCollaborate deeply with engineers and PMs, while increasingly contributing directly to implementation.\nUse judgement to balance speed vs quality, shipping early and iterating often.\nSynthesize and share learning - building shared understanding across the team, not letting insight sit in silos.\nMentor other designers and contribute to raising the bar across the team.\nShape how we work, as design continues to evolve at Zen.\nWhat we’re building\nGetting the right educator into the right school at the right time is a nuanced, meaningful problem.\nDone well, it improves outcomes for children and puts more money into classrooms (we’ve already saved UK schools over £50 million since 2017). Done poorly, it burns out teachers, wastes money, and disrupts education.\nOur platform supports:\nEducators finding meaningful work.\nSchools managing short- and long-term staffing needs.\nInternal teams matching supply and demand efficiently.\nWe’re well established in the UK and rapidly growing in the US which brings a constant stream of complex, high-impact design challenges across workflows, systems, and experiences.\nWhat the role looks like in practice\nYou’ll work across the full product lifecycle - from early discovery through to delivery with a focus on user outcomes, speed of learning, and design quality.\nA typical loop might look like:\nSpeaking to educators or school staff to understand a problem in depth.\nSynthesising insights (e.g. in tools like Dovetail) to shape a clear direction.\nRapidly exploring solutions through flows, prototypes, or lightweight builds - often going beyond or bypassing Figma.\nTesting ideas early through conversations, interactive prototypes, or live experiments.\nIterating quickly based on feedback and real usage.\nCollaborating closely with engineers and sometimes writing or shaping production code (e.g. via tools like Claude).\nShipping improvements and continuing to learn.\nYou’ll operate in tight loops between customer insight → prototype → shipped product → learning - helping us close the gap between idea and reality, and ensuring what we build is grounded in real needs.\nHow we work\nDesign is a partner, not a service - you’ll co-own problems and drive delivery.\nBuilders, not just designers - we value people who can take ideas to reality.\nLean over large - quick flows, sharp critiques, fast iteration.\nBias to ship - progress over perfection.\nDesign system is evolving - you’ll help shape it.\nGrowth & progression\nChoose your own adventure - shape your path based on strengths and interests.\nExpand your craft - into prototyping, technical fluency, and product building.\nLevels, not titles - growth is about scope and impact.\nHigh ownership, low bureaucracy - lead your work without micromanagement.\nTeam & culture\nSmall design team, big ambitions. You won’t get lost in a 50-person design org and you’ll help define what “great” looks like.\nAsync and face-to-face collaboration. Iterative sharing, with structured rituals and casual touch points to stay aligned and connected.\nMission-led and user-focused. Our product isn’t a vanity tool or a growth hack. It’s a platform with deep real-world impact.\nStill scrappy in places. Not everything is polished or perfectly resourced. If you like clean chaos and building things properly, you’ll thrive.\nCompensation\nMarket reality. Compensation is based on your competitiveness in your local hiring market (note that’s not just where you live). We don’t believe anyone has found a great solution to global compensation, so we aim instead to be clear and equitable in how we do it.\nSolid, but not flashy compensation. We pay decently, but we won’t beat out companies with deeper pockets (yet!).\nThink long term investment. If you are in a place where you need to prioritise immediate financial gain then this probably isn’t the right time to join us.\nHiring process\nWe aim to hire fast and fairly - clarity over games. Our ideal process is: apply one week, offer the next. Here’s what that looks like:\nRecruiter chat\nWe’ll check the basics - your availability, compensation expectations, and whether this feels like a mutual fit.\nMeeting with me\nI’ll want to understand how you work, what matters to you in a design role, and how we can support your best work A deep dive into a past project (or two) will follow. We’ll look for clear storytelling, design thinking, collaboration, and the impact of your work.\nDesign task session\nYou’ll work on a real product problem - shaping it, exploring options, and figuring out how you think.\nWe believe in feedback, but only share it if you ask for it. If you want it, just say so, we’ll be honest and constructive about how we saw things.\nSound exciting?\nIf you read all this and thought “hell yes” (even if it’s a slightly nervous one), then please apply. If you skimmed and thought “maybe,” apply anyway, you’ll get a clearer sense once we chat. We’re always open to great people, even if the timing isn’t perfect.\nWe currently have a clear need for one more Senior Product Designer to join the team - maybe it’s you?\nDiversity & Inclusion\nAt Zen, we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion, where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated for their unique traits, experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer, more compassionate environment for all.\nWe welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives - just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where people’s voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work.\nWe are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. 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