Product Designer

About the Role

You’ll own the end-to-end design for the experiences that make Primer schools great. That includes web and mobile products for families, students, educators, and internal teams, as well as the physical campuses themselves. From the app parents use every day, to the signage they see when they walk into a school, you’ll help us define it all.

Most edtech companies stop at software. We run the schools, source the real estate, hire the teachers, and build the spaces where learning happens. The same person who designs the digital onboarding flow also has a point of view on how the classroom flows.

You’ll join a small, high-ownership design team that works close to students, families, educators, and operators. We value clear thinking, honest feedback, strong craft, and a bias toward action.

You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and school operators to solve problems that have never been solved before. The goal is to build simple, intuitive, and joyful experiences for all our users and scale our products for our next phase of growth.

What you’ll do

• Lead design projects from initial concept through high-fidelity design and launch.
• Run user research with students, families, and teachers, and turn what you learn into interfaces, systems, and environments.
• Move fluidly between visual design, interaction design, and systems thinking depending on what the product needs.
• Refine copy, tone, and visual detail so every screen feels cohesive and intentional.
• Contribute to and help shape the Mondrian design system.
• Design beyond the screen: campus signage, interior spaces and marketing assets
• Help set Primer's design standards and raise the ceiling of the team as it grows.

What We're Looking for

• 5+ years of experience as Product Designer
• An exceptionally polished portfolio
• A track record of owning projects end-to-end, from concept through launch.
• A strong sense of language and consistency
• Comfort balancing insight with intuition. You can commit to a direction without waiting for formal research to hand you the answer.
• Strength bringing clarity to big, ambiguous problem spaces
• Comfortable presenting to executives, board members, investors and non-tech stakeholders
• Experience using AI tools to prototype and convey designs is a plus
• High EQ. You work well with people who aren't designers, take feedback in a room full of them, and can read what students, families, and teachers actually need.
• Genuine excitement about Primer's mission
• This is a full-time, in-person role based in San Francisco, as we believe our best work happens when we’re together.

Additional information

Something Extra: We value diverse backgrounds - whether in education, healthcare, logistics, marketplaces, compliance, field operations, or something entirely different. Anything that taught you how complex human systems really work.