Principal User Experience Designer

Savvas Learning Company is a global education company that produces award-winning learning solutions. They are seeking a Principal User Experience Designer to lead experience design for complex reporting, data visualization, and learning analytics across K–12 educational technology platforms, while also optimizing their design system.

Responsibilities:

• You will lead the UX strategy and execution for high-impact reporting and dashboard initiatives, including:
• Administrative dashboards and system-level reporting tools
• Complex student performance and growth data visualizations
• AI-driven insight experiences (e.g., Assignment AI Insights)
• Combined math, literacy, and Lexile reporting enhancements
• Learning analytics experiences within multi-product ecosystems
• You will:
• Translate complex educational data, learning analytics, and AI outputs into clear, actionable user experiences
• Define visualization patterns that scale across products
• Ensure dashboards support decision-making, not just data display
• Simplify multi-dimensional datasets without oversimplifying meaning
• Establish UX principles for reporting consistency across product lines
• You will play a critical role in strengthening and optimizing our design system
• Responsibilities include:
• Expanding system patterns for data visualization and reporting
• Defining scalable charting, dashboard, and insight components
• Creating documentation that enables consistency across teams
• Establishing feedback loops between product design and system evolution
• Driving process optimization for intake, review, and release
• Ensuring accessibility and performance standards are embedded at the system level
• Provide strategic UX continuity across multiple product lines
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and AI teams
• Align reporting experiences across platforms to reduce fragmentation
• Establish UX standards for how AI insights are surfaced and explained
• Ensure experience cohesion while enabling product-specific differentiation

Requirements:

• 8+ years in UX/Product Design, including experience at a senior or principal level
• Deep expertise in data visualization and dashboard design
• Demonstrated experience designing complex administrative or analytics tools
• Experience working with AI-driven features and insight surfacing
• Proven experience building and scaling a mature design system
• Experience creating components, not just consuming them
• Strong understanding of design tokens
• Strong understanding of accessibility (WCAG)
• Strong understanding of interaction modeling
• Strong understanding of responsive and scalable layout systems
• Strong understanding of data visualization best practices
• Experience partnering directly with engineering to ensure system fidelity
• Experience in EdTech, SaaS, enterprise platforms, or analytics-heavy products
• Experience designing for educators, administrators, or institutional users
• Familiarity with learning analytics or student performance reporting
• Experience working in multi-product ecosystems
• Experience leading cross-functional design reviews and governance