Lead Product Designer

Lumi is a K-12 writing and literacy platform founded by Colin Kaepernick. Students plan, draft, revise, and publish real writing with an AI guide that coaches rather than writes for them. Teachers and district leaders see growth as it happens. Lumi works with 15 districts and growing, and students who spend 10 or more hours on the platform show nearly twice the standards proficiency rate of those under two hours. The team is small, senior, and remote across the US. The role Lumi serves three very different users: students who need something closer to a consumer product, teachers who need a workflow tool that fits a 45-minute class period, and district leaders who need clear evidence of progress. You would own design across all three, holding consumer-grade craft and SaaS-grade rigor in the same head and deciding when each one wins. You would be the first senior design hire, setting the bar for how design works at Lumi: the system, the process, and the standard of what ships. You would report directly to and work closely with the founders. What you would do Own design end to end: research, product thinking, interaction, visual design, and the system that ties them together Design the student writing experience so that revising a draft feels like something a ten-year-old wants to do again Design the teacher experience as a real workflow tool, covering creating a project, reading 28 drafts, and deciding who needs a small group, all before the bell Design the district view so an administrator can see writing growth across schools without needing a training session Sit in classrooms and join district calls, then turn what you hear into prototypes within days Work directly with the founders and engineering on what to build next, not just how it looks What they are looking for A portfolio showing high-quality consumer product work and complex multi-role workflows, ideally both, with clear evidence of what you personally owned 7 or more years of product design experience, including at least one product taken from early stage to maturity Experience with workflow SaaS design for professional users (such as Airtable, Canva, or Notion) or consumer-grade design that earns daily habit (such as Duolingo), and curiosity about the other profile Strong systems thinking: you build and maintain design systems rather than work around them Comfort making decisions with incomplete information and revising them openly Edtech experience is useful but not required; Lumi would rather hire the best consumer or workflow designer and teach them about classrooms Working arrangements Fully remote within the US, with quarterly in-person team trips. Pay and benefits $165,000 - $215,000 per year, plus equity and benefits. #J-18808-Ljbffr Lumi