Staff Product Designer, Education

Staff Product Designer, Education will lead developer experience and end-to-end product design across Learning Commons developer integration, onboarding, and dataset discovery.

Responsibilities

• Own developer experience end to end, shaping a point of view on what drives sustained use of Learning Commons tools
• Use research, usage data, and direct partner contact to translate insights into a roadmap aligned across the organization
• Design developer integration views from zero, defining what to show and why, including performance visibility such as usage, quality, errors, and impact
• Make the platform feel like one product by leading systematic design across platform, catalog, docs, and marketing surfaces
• Set patterns and information architecture, rather than applying existing patterns
• Extend the dataset catalog and access experience, building on what is already shipped with new features, richer discovery, and improved permission and organization models
• Set the craft bar and raise it across the team by mentoring designers and acting as a design systems reviewer people seek out
• Partner closely with the design systems lead to raise quality and adoption

Requirements

• At least 8 years of professional experience
• Visual craft plus product thinking, with strength in visual and interaction design and a desire to bring brand expression into the product
• Design systems fluency, ensuring recommendations land in the system through partnership with the systems designer and adoption of patterns
• Strategic ownership across an entire product or platform in production, including setting direction
• Ability to frame ambiguous problems, make value and risk tradeoffs explicit, and align people without waiting for fully specified briefs
• Systems instincts and technical depth, with interest in permissions, organization models, and multi-surface navigation
• Comfort reading an API reference, collaborating with engineers on feasibility, and designing within real constraints
• Comfort with new ways of working using AI-native methods to ship fast and learn
• Prototype in code and validate early instead of relying on a linear ideate, research, build, ship cycle

Benefits

• 401(k): generous employer match on employee contributions
• Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice
• Family-forming benefits: funding for select benefits
• Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving

Compensation

• Base pay range (Redwood City, CA): $170,000 - $190,000 per year
• New hires are typically hired toward the lower portion of the range with growth over time
• Final placement is based on job-related skills and experience assessed during the interview process
• This position may be eligible for a discretionary annual performance bonus program

Better Together

• Hybrid role requiring you to be onsite at least 60% of the working month, about 3 days a week
• Specific in-office days are determined by the team’s manager