Fast Facts

Stepful, a leading EdTech company, is seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead and scale their design function, driving best-in-class product experiences for students and educators. This role requires a strategic leader with experience in product design and a passion for education and healthcare.

Responsibilities: The Senior Design Manager will oversee design projects, recruit and develop talent, establish design principles, and collaborate across functions to align design strategy with business outcomes.

Skills: 8+ years of product design experience, strong portfolio showcasing design excellence, exceptional communication skills, and ability to work with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications: Preferred candidates will have startup experience in B2B2C or B2C EdTech/Healthcare environments and knowledge of A/B testing or data-driven product development.

Location: This position is based at 408 Broadway, Floor 5, New York, with no remote options.

Compensation: $160000 - $200000 / Annually

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 Senior Design Manager, you’ll be responsible for leading and scaling our design function and setting the vision for how design drives product experience. You’ll be responsible for delivering rich, intuitive best-in-class experiences for students, instructors, and coaches by shaping design strategy and elevating craft at the company. As a key member of the leadership team, you’ll partner with leadership across product, engineering, and marketing to drive business outcomes.

What you’ll do:

• Own and lead a core vertical alongside your PM counterpart and oversee other squads to ensure cohesion and a defined vision
• Recruit, develop, and retain top design talent, building a culture of collaboration and excellence
• Manage and coach designers, creating clear-growth paths
• Establish principles, systems, and processes that ensure design excellence and culture across the organization
• Shape product vision alongside product by identifying cross-functional opportunities that map to business needs
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, growth, and ops leadership to address challenges, manage trade-offs, and build a strong team
• Oversee the strategic roadmap for design and research
• Implement and evolve our design system to ensure consistency and efficiency

This job is for you if you have:

• 8+ years of product design experience across a variety of platforms, with at least 2-3 years in a leadership role
• Strong portfolio of work that demonstrates design excellence and impact
• A deep understanding of the tech that powers digital products, and how to collaborate with engineering to make the most of emerging capabilities
• Ability to move fluidly between vision, strategy, and hands-on execution
• Exceptional communicator with experience building relationships with teammates and 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 3: Virtual panel interview
• Step 4: Onsite interview at office in SoHo, NYC

Compensation:

$160-200k base salary

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.