Product Designer

The Cadmus platform shapes how millions of students and tens of thousands of academics experience assessment. That is a design challenge that goes well beyond interface — it requires understanding learning, institutional complexity, and what it actually takes to change practice at scale. Cadmus is built on the proposition that design is the mechanism of academic integrity. When assessment is designed well, students do not need to cheat. When a platform is designed well, academics do not resist it. The Product Designer will shape how that proposition is experienced in practice. You will own design end-to-end across core platform areas — from discovery and problem framing through to high-fidelity delivery and post-launch iteration — working directly with product managers, engineers, and the learning team.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE In your first year, you will have: • Shipped design work that demonstrably improved the academic user experience. The improvement is measurable — in adoption, in support volume, in what academics say when you talk to them. Not design that looked right. Design that worked. • Strengthened the Cadmus design system in ways that raise the quality bar across the product. Your contribution is not just to the features you owned. The system is more coherent, more consistently applied, and faster for engineers to work with because of what you built. • Run user research that changed how the product team framed at least one significant problem. Not validated assumptions. Generated genuine insight — about what academics actually need, what students actually experience — that shifted the direction of something meaningful. • Closed the gap between design intent and production reality. What you design is what ships. Engineers understand your decisions, challenge them productively, and implement them accurately. The distance between Figma and production is consistently small.