Senior Product Designer

**Senior Product Designer — Lumion**

**Location:** South Jordan, Utah (on-site, 5 days/week)

**Reports to:** Josh (CEO/Co-founder) and Derrick (CTO/Co-founder)

**Why Lumion**
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Lumion is building the operating system for trade schools — the institutions training the electricians, welders, HVAC technicians, plumbers, and skilled tradespeople the U.S. economy runs on. These schools serve students who often can't or don't want to take a traditional four-year path, and they've historically been stuck running their entire operation on a patchwork of spreadsheets, paper forms, and software built for a different era.

We're changing that. Our platform powers recruitment, enrollment, payments, communications, attendance, and reporting for trade schools across the United States — and the work we ship directly affects whether students get into programs, stay enrolled, and graduate into careers that change the trajectory of their families.

**Why This Role Is Rare**
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* **Direct line to the founders.** You'll report to the CEO and CTO and have real influence on the company's direction — not three layers down from where decisions get made.
* **End-to-end ownership of a multi-product platform.** Most PMs spend years waiting to own surface area like this. You'll have it on day one.
* **Velocity most PMs never get to experience.** We ship major products in weeks, not quarters. AI is woven into every step of how we work — prototyping, PRDs, audits, customer research — so the leverage per person is enormous.
* **No design-team bottleneck.** You'll prototype directly in high-fidelity HTML using AI tools. Your taste and judgment ship to customers, not someone else's interpretation of them.
* **Equity in a company with real momentum** in a market that's been underserved for decades.

**What You'll Actually Do**
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### **Product Strategy & Roadmap**

* Own the product roadmap across multiple concurrent workstreams, with a minimum of 45-day forward planning horizon, and a 90-day target
* Lead monthly planning cycles: source ideas from the team, validate with customers, and run prioritization with leadership
* Tie product decisions directly to business outcomes — ARR, retention, and go-to-market milestones

### **Prototyping & Design**

* Build high-fidelity HTML prototypes using AI tools before writing PRDs — the prototype is the source of truth
* Translate prototypes into precise functional requirements that an AI-assisted engineering team can execute against
* Make UX calls independently: navigation, terminology, conditional logic, mobile-first behavior

### **PRD Authorship & Engineering Handoff**

* Write clear, complete PRDs that serve as the single source of truth for development
* Use AI comparison tools to catch gaps between designs and documentation before development begins
* Document every visual decision in writing so engineering can move autonomously

### **Cross-Functional Leadership**

* Participate in daily standups across 2–3 engineering teams
* Run a weekly Product & Engineering operating cadence with 10+ stakeholders
* Host a weekly Product AMA open to the full company
* Coordinate go-to-market launches with CS, marketing, and sales — including launch sequencing, school comms, and feature flag management

### **Customer & Market Discovery**

* Run customer discovery interviews that surface real needs, not just feature requests
* Lead customer deep-dive sessions
* Translate feedback into prioritized, well-rationalized product requirements

### **Knowledge Management**

* Maintain a structured knowledge base across your product areas
* Create page templates and conventions that keep documentation consistent
* Spend time each week on Notion housekeeping so the team always has the latest source of truth

**What We're Looking For**
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### **Must-haves**

* Hands-on experience using AI tools throughout the product workflow — prototyping, documentation, research
* Strong prototyping skills (you are the designer here)
* Experience working with API integrations and third-party systems
* Ability to write precise, comprehensive PRDs that AI-assisted engineers can build from without ambiguity
* Customer discovery expertise — you can run conversations that get past surface-level requests
* Comfort with data: usage metrics, funnel analysis, financial models
* Strong self-direction and the ability to manage 3–5 concurrent workstreams

### **Strong advantages**

* Background in payments, fintech, or financial workflows
* Experience with CRM, marketing automation, or enrollment systems
* Familiarity with trade school, vocational education, or workforce development markets
* Prior work in a startup or high-growth SaaS environment
* Experience with compliance-sensitive communications (SMS/TCR, digital signatures, FAFSA)

**The Environment**
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Worth being upfront about how we operate, so you can decide if it's the right fit:

* **Pace.** We ship fast. Major products go out in weeks, not quarters. Velocity is a core operating principle.
* **Process.** We've moved away from heavy scrum ceremonies in favor of daily standups and prototype-driven iteration. Lightweight by design.
* **AI-first.** AI tools are part of daily work — prototyping, PRDs, audit automation, research. Comfort with these tools is a baseline, not a bonus.
* **Ownership.** You'll make consequential calls independently and defend them to leadership. We trust people to own outcomes.
* **Ambiguity.** Roadmaps shift as we learn. You should find that energizing rather than frustrating.

### **This role isn't the right fit if…**

* You prefer rigid, ceremony-heavy PM methodologies (story points, lengthy sprint rituals, waterfall PRD processes)
* You rely on a design team or UX researcher to handle discovery and prototyping for you
* You struggle to context-switch between strategy and detailed execution
* Evolving requirements and fast-moving leadership decisions feel destabilizing rather than exciting

**Compensation & Logistics**
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* Competitive salary commensurate with experience
* Meaningful equity in a high-growth SaaS company
* On-site in South Jordan, Utah, five days a week — no relocation assistance provided
* Direct reporting line to the CEO and CTO with high visibility across the organization
* Unlimited PTO
* Free lunch each day

**Ready?**
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Lumion is building the operating system for trade schools. If you want to work on products that directly affect students' access to skilled-trades education — and you're ready to ship faster than you ever have, with more ownership than most PMs ever get — we want to talk.