Senior 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; understanding learning, institutional complexity, and how assessment workflows actually function in practice.

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 Senior 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 meaningful improvements to core academic workflows: Your work measurably improves the experience for academics and students, reflected in adoption, reduced support friction, and direct user feedback. This is not just design that looks better, but design that clearly works better. • Elevated the product’s visual and interaction quality through the design system: You strengthen and extend the Cadmus design system in ways that raise the bar across the product. The system becomes more coherent, more consistently applied, and more useful for both designers and engineers. As a result, design decisions scale and engineering velocity improves. • Introduced user insights that changed product direction: You design and conduct research that surfaces non-obvious insights about academic and student needs, shifting how the team frames and approaches at least one meaningful problem. You go beyond validating assumptions to generating new understanding. • Reduced the gap between design and production: What you design is what ships. You work closely with engineers to ensure designs are feasible, well-understood, and implemented with high fidelity. You understand technical constraints and use them to make better design decisions, not avoid them. The distance between Figma and production consistently decreases. • Balanced craft with delivery: You raise the quality bar of the product without relying on large, speculative redesigns. You make thoughtful trade-offs, delivering improvements that are both high-quality and practical to build.