Product Designer (Contract)

Epic is the leading digital reading platform for kids, used by millions of children, families, and educators around the world. They are seeking a thoughtful and execution-oriented Product Designer to create intuitive, high-quality experiences across key user journeys, focusing on designing 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

Requirements:

• 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