[Remote] Product Designer (Contract)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Epic for Kids is the leading digital reading platform for children, and they are seeking a thoughtful and execution-oriented Product Designer to join their team. The role involves designing end-to-end product experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and improving usability across their platform for children, families, and educators.
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end product experiences across web and mobile, from early concepts to polished final designs
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and data teams to define user problems, explore solutions, and deliver high-quality experiences
- Create wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for new features and product improvements
- Improve key user journeys such as onboarding, content discovery, search, recommendations, engagement, and subscription flows
- Use qualitative feedback, product data, and experimentation results to refine designs and support decision-making
- Contribute to and evolve Epic’s design system to ensure consistency and scalability across the product
- Balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints in a fast-moving environment
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners across time zones and communicate design thinking clearly and effectively
Skills
- 2–5 years of experience in product design, UX design, interaction design, or a related field
- Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product thinking, interaction design, and execution across digital products
- Strong interest in digital consumer products, education technology, or personalized product experiences
- Experience designing user flows, navigation systems, and high-quality interfaces for web and/or mobile products
- Ability to simplify complex workflows into clear, intuitive experiences
- Comfort working in a highly collaborative, remote, cross-functional environment
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain design rationale clearly to stakeholders
- Professional fluency in both English and Mandarin Chinese
- Passion for Epic's mission to inspire kids to read and learn
- Experience designing for edtech, children's products, family products, or educator-facing tools
- Experience working in a startup or fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system
- Experience working with cross-functional global teams
Benefits
- Be part of a mission-driven company shaping how millions of children read and learn
- Work on a product with meaningful impact, global reach, and strong growth potential
- Help design experiences that are more personalized, engaging, and effective for young readers
- Join a collaborative, thoughtful, and fast-moving team
- Enjoy the flexibility of a remote-friendly work environment
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