Senior User Experience Designer

Title:Senior User Experience Designer
Duration: 3 months
Location: Remote
The Role
We're looking for a Senior User Experience Designer with a strong foundation in user-centered
design to shape engaging experiences for our higher education products. You're someone
who operates through curiosity, collaboration, and craft excellence, ready to grow your
strategic thinking while delivering high-quality designs that support learning outcomes.
You'll partner closely with content, product, and engineering teams and be responsible for:
* Designing end-to-end user experiences across web and mobile platforms, from
concept through implementation
* Creating high-fidelity designs including user flows, interactive prototypes, and detailed
specifications that enable smooth engineering handoff
* Contributing new patterns and components to our design system with consideration for
scalability, accessibility, and consistency
* Planning and conducting user research and usability testing to inform design decisions,
validate solutions, and iterate based on insights
You will be challenged in an organization that values vision, execution, and persistence. You will
take ownership of your design work by solving complex user problems with clarity, empathy,
and attention to detail. Product Designers at client are embedded within product teams
that are deeply collaborative, and each member is directly responsible for the team's success.
What You'll Own
As a critical partner on our team, you will lead design for major product areas and full user
journeys. You'll collaborate with content, product, research, and engineering teams
throughout the product development process to advocate for user needs and shape
experiences that drive learning outcomes.
* Lead design for complex, end-to-end user experiences, from initial discovery through
launch and iteration
* Partner with product managers to define and frame design problems, identify
opportunities, and establish clear success metrics
* Create high-fidelity designs including user flows, screens, and interactive prototypes
with exceptional craft and attention to detail
* Design and document reusable components and patterns for the design system with
consideration for scalability, accessibility, and cross-platform consistency
* Lead user research (or co-create with a researcher) initiatives including planning,
facilitation, and synthesis, translating insights into actionable design and product
recommendations
* Present design work and strategic recommendations to senior leadership, building
conviction for design decisions that shape product direction
* Facilitate design workshops and collaborative sessions that build shared understanding
and drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders
* Partner with product and engineering to scope design work, define timelines, and
establish success criteria for initiatives
* Leverage data and analytics to validate design decisions and iteratively improve
experiences through A/B testing and experimentation
* Mentor junior designers through design crits, pair designing, and thoughtful feedback
that accelerates their growth
* Design for AI-driven teaching and learning experiences (working with learning science),
considering ethical implications and pedagogical effectiveness

About You
You bring 5-8 years of product design experience with a portfolio that demonstrates craft
excellence, strategic thinking, and measurable impact on user experience and business
outcomes. Experience designing AI-powered experiences is a strong plus. You're someone
who leads through exceptional design, collaboration, and user advocacy. Additionally, you are:
* A strategic designer and thinker who brings pragmatic judgment to every decision,
conducting user research, advocating for design quality, or navigating technical
constraints, you excel at reducing ambiguity and defining clear paths forward through
thoughtful problem-framing and communication
* Equally comfortable designing pixel-perfect interfaces and shaping scalable design
systems, always grounding your work in user needs, business goals, and technical
feasibility
* Able to thrive in cross-functional environments where collaboration is the default,
partnering seamlessly with content strategists, product managers, researchers,
engineers, and stakeholders to solve complex problems and ship high-quality
experiences