Stepful is on a mission to revolutionize vocational education. We train people with a high school education in 4 months or less and places them into healthcare jobs. Healthcare is the fastest growing industry in the US accounting for 40% of all jobs added including medical assistants, nursing assistants, and phlebotomists.

About Stepful :

Stepful is reimagining allied healthcare training by offering affordable, online, instructor-led, and AI-supported programs that help learners—especially those from underserved communities—launch high-demand healthcare careers.

In addition to our direct-to-consumer training, Stepful partners with leading healthcare institutions to build talent pipelines and address the growing shortage of allied health workers. Our graduates, including Medical Assistants, Pharmacy Technicians and more, go on to work at major employers like CVS, NY-Presbyterian, and Walgreens.

Stepful is backed by Y Combinator, Reach Capital, and AlleyCorp, with a recent $31.5M Series B led by Oak HC/FT. We were named the #1 EdTech company in the U.S. by TIME for 2025.

We’re unlocking the full potential of the global workforce—improving access to quality healthcare for everyone, everywhere.

Our values :

We credit much of our success to our exceptional team. We’re looking for mission-driven individuals who thrive in fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environments, and embody our four core values:

Care first : We do whatever it takes for our students to succeed.

Learn quickly : We test, learn with data, and iterate.

Build together : We win when we rely on each other.

Own it : We show up, take initiative, and show pride.

The role:

As our Product Design (Multiple Levels), you’ll be responsible for building rich, intuitive best in class experiences for students, instructors and coaches. This could include anything from designing delightful product experiences for students, maturing our design system, improving the platforms our coaches and instructors use daily and new products for Stepful partners. 

What you’ll do:

• Use your product thinking, visual design, and system steward skills to design rich, intuitive best in class experiences for students, instructors and coaches 

• Be involved in every step of the process, including project prioritization and planning, conducting research, writing jobs to be done, mapping user flows, creating wireframes, prototyping, and designing high-fidelity UI across our native and web apps

• Leverage both quantitative and qualitative data to guide your design decisions and utilize a hypothesis driven experimental mindset 

• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, growth and operations to address challenges, manage trade-offs and get the team excited 

• Own and mature our design system to evolve our patterns, components, styles and patterns across all products 

This job is for you if you have:

• 8+ years of work experience with a focus on product design and UI across a variety of platforms like iOS, web or others.

• A deep understanding of the tech that powers digital products, and how to collaborate with engineering to make the most of emerging capabilities 

• Ability context switch and apply a wide variety of product design skills (e.g., design thinking, design strategy, user problem definition, information architecture, service design)

• Experience leading user research to understand underlying pain points and needs 

• Experience building relationships with teammates, influencing decisions at a variety of levels and across multiple teams

Bonus points if:

• You have previous startup experience especially at B2B2C or B2C  EdTech/Healthcare  companies

• Experience with A/B testing or other experiment/data driven product development organizations

Interview Process:

In your application, please include a link to your portfolio showcasing relevant work samples. A portfolio submission is mandatory for consideration of your candidacy.

Step 1: Screening call with Talent Acquisition

Step 2: Intro call with Hiring Manager

Step 2: Take-home assignment

Step 3: Virtual panel interview

Step 4: Onsite interview at office in SoHo, NYC

Compensation:

$160-200k / 0.04-0.07%

Compensation for this role will fall within the pay range listed and will be determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications as well as interview evaluation. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

Stepful is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Our current stack is based on Postgres, Rails and React.

We are building the best student experience ever!