Product Designer

About Murmuration 

Murmuration transforms how advocates and organizers identify, engage, and mobilize people and communities. Our focus is on driving change and accelerating progress toward a future where every child in America has the opportunity to benefit from a high-quality public education. 

What We Do 

We provide sophisticated data and analytics, proprietary technology, strategic guidance, and programmatic support to help our partners increase civic engagement and marshal support so necessary changes are made to improve our public schools. Our precise, predictive intelligence and easy-to-use tools are used by practitioners and funders, on their own and working together, to make informed decisions about who they need to reach and how to achieve and sustain impact. 

Who We Are 

Our team includes experts and innovators in data, analytics, and strategy. We are former teachers, organizers, data scientists, and campaign veterans, and we are looking for people whose passion and expertise can help improve our work and realize our vision. 

Background 

Since 2014, Murmuration has established itself as a trusted resource for our partners who include the leading practitioners and funders who believe our public schools should be safe, learner-centered, and well-resourced, so they can serve the needs of future generations, irrespective of background or circumstance. We have demonstrated that our data, analytics, and technology can improve advocacy and organizing outcomes. We have also made early contact with key players across the sector, notably funders and vendors, already working on these and related efforts. Through our work, we have confirmed that to be successful, and to achieve our long-term goals, everyone committed to massively improving public schools and ensuring every child across this country has equal access to quality education must be aligned. Our collective efforts must be focused, disciplined, and the work must be collaborative and wide-ranging. At the same time, we recognize that it will take more than our current offerings – and particularly how and where they are being used, and by whom – to drive sustainable change. 

We believe that Murmuration is uniquely positioned to facilitate more coordinated decision-making and collective action among practitioners and funders. We enable and promote collaboration and learning among partners. Our work expands and diversifies the political activities in support of quality public education, and, by sharing our insights so others can learn, we help to advance individual and collective efforts that align with and accelerate progress towards our vision. In short, we believe our perspective on the critical role of politics in transforming public education, the processes to engage in during the journey, and the belief system that underlies the importance of traveling in a particular way, should be broadly understood and embraced by others. 

About the Role 

This is a full-time position reporting to our Manager of UX Design and joining a close-knit group of Product Designers. 

As a Product Designer, you will play a pivotal role in determining the look, feel, and user experience for one of our products within a growing product portfolio including enterprise software tools and mobile apps. You’ll dive into the weeds wherever needed within your product Pod to help keep the team moving. Based on the business and product context, constraints, and requirements, you’ll focus on designing what drives the most impact: innovating where it drives a key outcome and building from prior learnings to avoid reinventing the wheel. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Effectively and empathically collaborate with cross-functional teams of researchers, product managers, engineers, marketers, and data scientists 
• Employ user-centered design methodologies to thoroughly understand customer goals and pain points
• Design early-stage product ideas, learn from experiments, iterate quickly to propose new hypotheses, and deliver actionable insights to your team 
• Deliver end-to-end feature design work, including user journeys and flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes 
• Regularly present designs to stakeholders for feedback and to the company at large
• Work with our design team to apply best practices, learn cutting edge techniques, and coordinate on a rich product ecosystem

 
What you should have:
 

• Passion for civic engagement, campaigns, and equity
• Excellent product design fundamentals, including visual design, UI design, interaction design, and information architecture
• Demonstrable real-world design expertise for complex SaaS products on teams using Agile software development methodologies 
• Comfort strategizing at a high level then breaking down and targeting the tactical pieces to realize the vision in a phased approach
• Ability to use and contribute to our design component library to drive consistency and reusability throughout our suite of products
• Understanding of accessibility and responsive/adaptive design to accommodate different form factors
• A bias for action and the ability to thrive working in fast-paced climates (e.g., start-up or similar)
• A strong commitment to data-driven decision making: welcoming both qualitative and quantitative data on the impact of our products to enrich the iterative design process
• Proficiency with industry-standard design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Jira, and Miro (or equivalent)
• A portfolio that showcases how you designed real world solutions and the role you played in bringing them to life (online is preferred)

 
What you could have:
 

• Experience with CRMs, political or advocacy campaigns, and/or civic organizing products
• Experience with analytics tools such as Pendo, Mixpanel, Fullstory, Google Analytics, or similar
• Design expertise in data visualization
• Visual identity branding experience
• Training in behavioral science (RCTs, interventions, etc.)

 
Location, Compensation, and Benefits

The Product Designer is a full-time, salaried position with a comprehensive benefits package. It is based anywhere in the U.S. The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $125,000 and is commensurate with experience.



An Equal-Opportunity Employer with a Commitment to Diversity

Murmuration is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and as an organization committed to diversity and the perspective of all voices, we consider applicants equally of race, gender, color, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, political affiliation, and national origin. We reasonably accommodate staff members and/or applicants with disabilities, provided they are otherwise able to perform the essential functions of the job.