Principal Product Designer

📋 Description

• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, Learner Services, and other stakeholders to deliver successful products.

• Partner with the Product and Engineering teams to refine and implement a flexible product design process to enable development speed, customer delight, and consistent user experiences across the portfolio.

• Foster user-centricity by conducting and analyzing user research and testing assumptions via rapid prototyping.

• Define, maintain, and apply design guidelines and best practices across the product portfolio.

• Measure and optimize the impact of design on key metrics that move the needle for the business.

• Keep abreast of design trends and industry developments, incorporating relevant advancements into the team's workflow.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of proven experience in a product design role with a strong track record of delivering successful products.

• Exceptional understanding of user-centered design principles, UX research, UI design principles, interactions design, and rapid prototyping.

• Strong understanding of B2B/enterprise software design principles.

• Great team player, highly self-motivated.

• Ability to collaborate closely with product managers, product designers, engineers, and copywriters.

• Ability to translate business requirements into innovative design solutions.

• Knowledge of front-end development technologies and their impact on design decisions.

• Experience working in an agile development environment.

• Exceptional product sense, design intuition, attention to detail, and curiosity.

• Nice to Have: Experience in a startup or rapidly growing company: Demonstrated ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

• Experience in EdTech.

• Experience designing for both B2B and B2C applications.

• Portfolio demonstrating a strong ability to create exceptional user experiences.

• Bachelor's degree in Product Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Fine Art, Architecture, OR equivalent experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees

• We pay 100% of the employee's premium and 50% of any dependents' premiums

• Contribute up to $2000 to employee HSA/$3000 to employee + dependent HSA

• PPO Buy-up plan available

• FSA available

• Company paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance for employee

• Flexible time off and remote work opportunity

• Up to 80 hours of dedicated sick time annually to support your well-being and work-life balance

• 15 paid holidays per year (including Juneteenth and the last week of the calendar year)

• Company wellness days (2 per year)

• Day of Service (Paid day for volunteering)

• 401(k) plan

• Paid parental leave (12 weeks primary parental leave, 6 weeks secondary parental leave)

• A diverse team that fosters a high level of collaboration despite being highly distributed

• We provide your choice of a Mac or PC laptop