Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

Boston, MA (hybrid – 2 days a week in office)

Clasp is a venture-backed, mission-driven startup transforming access to education and career pathways. We are revolutionizing the way employers attract and retain critical talent, while simultaneously tackling the student debt crisis. (Yep, we think BIG.) Our innovative platform meaningfully connects employers, educational institutions, and diverse talent to drive mutual benefit—using accessible education financing as the thread. We like to think of ourselves as more than a fintech;

we’re a catalyst for economic mobility.

A Forbes Fintech 50 company, portfolio company of SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management — the largest HR organization out there!) and recipient of “43 Start Ups to Bet Your Career On in 2025” by Business Insider, Clasp is driven by our commitment to social impact and innovation. We are reshaping the future of the workforce one opportunity at a time.

Join us on our journey to give power to learners and unlock fulfilling careers that drive positive change in their communities and beyond.

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join Clasp as our first full‑time design hire. Clasp has found product–market fit by tackling two massive crises at once: the student debt crisis and the healthcare labor shortage. Our platform connects students with employers and enables employers to offer student loan repayment as a benefit. Now we need to evolve from a purely functional product into a cohesive, enterprise‑ready experience across multiple user personas.

This is a hands‑on senior IC role. We’re not looking for someone to direct agencies — we need someone who’s excited to design, prototype, and ship alongside Product and Engineering. You’ll be the design anchor for the company, owning the experience for core users (students, recruiters, payroll teams, and more). You’ll partner closely with Product and Engineering to define how Clasp looks, feels, and works, moving fluidly between complex systems thinking and high‑fidelity execution.

• Lead End‑to‑End Design: Own the full lifecycle of core workflows and product experiences — from ambiguous discovery and problem framing through prototyping, production, and final polish.

• Build & Evolve the Design System: Develop and maintain our product design system, driving consistency in typography, color, layout, and components as we scale.

• Prototype & Validate: Use Figma (including variables and advanced interactions) to rapidly prototype and test concepts with real users, ensuring solutions are intuitive, efficient, and grounded in user behavior.

• Conduct User Research: Partner with Product to run qualitative and quantitative research — usability testing, interviews, data‑driven insights — to inform decisions and strengthen our understanding of each persona.

• Collaborate Cross‑Functionally: Work closely with Engineering to ensure seamless implementation of dynamic, data‑rich interfaces, and collaborate with Product to translate user needs into clear product strategies.

• Elevate the Visual Craft: Bring a refined visual design sensibility that raises the bar for clarity, quality, and cohesion across the product.

• Infuse Delight & Personality: Introduce moments of engagement, warmth, and delight across the platform — shaping a product experience that feels human, trustworthy, and memorable.

• Leverage AI Workflows: Explore and responsibly apply emerging AI tools to accelerate research, ideation, and design production — making your process smarter, faster, and more scalable.

• Full‑Lifecycle Design Work: Case studies that clearly show how you identify problems, validate insights, design systems and interactions, and ship high‑quality experiences for complex products.

• Systems Thinking: The ability to hold a large, interconnected ecosystem in your head and design scalable experiences. You understand how changes in one user portal ripple across others.

• Fluency in Figma: Deep experience with Figma, including components, variables, auto layout, and prototyping. You understand how your designs map to code and collaborate effectively with…