Senior Product Designer

Wayfinder is hiring a Senior Product Designer to shape its web platform for students, educators, and school communities. The role owns feature design from discovery and research through prototyping and engineering handoff, with a focus on accessible experiences and AI-enabled features.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end design of a set of features, from discovery and research through concepting, prototyping, and handoff
• Lead research for your features: plan and run interviews, usability studies, and conversations with educators and students, and use product analytics to fill in the picture
• Get out and talk to people. Build relationships with current partners, listen closely, and bring their needs, frustrations, and ideas into the design process
• Share what you learn clearly and often, through written summaries, presentations, and prototypes that help the team make good decisions
• Translate concepts and technical requirements into sketches, user flows, prototypes, and handoff-ready files that balance a great user experience with business goals
• Design interfaces that are intuitive and accessible to all learners, aligned with our brand guidelines, design system, and patterns
• Design AI-enabled features that make work easier for educators and learning more meaningful for students, and use AI tools to speed up and strengthen your own design process
• Work closely with educators, designers, and engineers from discovery to delivery
• Turn your designs into build-ready specs and tickets so engineering can move quickly and confidently
• Contribute to the maintenance and growth of our component library

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in UI and UX design, with a portfolio of case studies that shows your process as well as your results
• A track record of leading design research, such as interviews, usability studies, and engagement with partners or customers, and turning findings into clear design decisions
• Excellent communication skills
• You're comfortable leading a conversation with a teacher, presenting to stakeholders, and explaining your thinking in writing, sketches, and prototypes
• Experience designing accessible products and a working knowledge of accessibility standards (such as WCAG)
• Comfort using AI tools as part of your design workflow, and curiosity about designing AI-enabled experiences
• Proficiency with Figma and familiarity with Adobe tools
• Experience collaborating with designers and engineers to create coherent, intuitive user experiences
• The ability to own your work independently, manage your own priorities in a fast-moving environment, and welcome feedback as part of doing your best work
• An entrepreneurial mindset and a bias toward action
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Experience designing PreK-12 edtech products, especially in Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), college and career readiness (CCR), or durable skill development
• Experience designing AI-enabled features or workflows
• Experience working in a startup or other fast-moving environment
• An undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in product design, interaction design, human-computer interaction, software engineering, or a related field