Associate Product Designer

Niche • Pittsburgh, PA

43d • $94,000 - $115,000 • Remote

About The Position

Every year, millions of families start the school search process. Students wade through a sea of information and decisions to make, and unfortunately access to help hasn’t changed much in decades: it’s not super clear what your options are, and you might not feel confident that a school is right for them, or think you’ll be able to afford it. Niche is on a mission to make researching and enrolling in schools easy, transparent, and free. Students need support choosing a school and paying for their education, schools want to find students who will thrive on their campus, and families need help supporting their students every step of the way. Niche helps ensure that it’s not just students already confident about college who get enrolled and can afford to attend. As an Associate Product Designer at Niche, you will work closely with senior designers and cross-functional teammates to create and deliver user flows, interfaces and prototypes that address user needs and drive meaningful impact to product goals. As a member of the Enroll pod, you will support the creation of intuitive, thoughtful experiences for two main user types (students and partners) in the mid-to-bottom funnel. Your solutions will help guide and nurture students through enrollment, and ensure college partners are able to engage with them effectively through to their first day of class. This role is ideal for someone early in their design career who is eager to grow, learn, and master their design process from solution definition to launch and iteration.

Requirements

• At least 1 year of professional experience in a product/UX design role, where you have designed solutions and worked with Engineering to deliver them live to production
• All applicants must submit a portfolio of product experiences that showcase user flows, interface design, prototypes, polish and shipping. Please include examples of how you organized your designs and docs, such as Figma file hierarchies, documenting and prioritizing feedback, handoff processes, etc
• Great taste and keen eye for craft and quality, sweating the details and using your knowledge of industry patterns and trends to deliver visually appealing solutions with great usability
• Familiar with Figma, design systems, and other modern design tools – no prior experience with generative AI is required
• Curious and eager to understand user behavior, mental models, and product constraints
• Able to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
• Proactively collaborate to overcome challenges, seek assistance to unblock yourself
• Comfortable iterating quickly with feedback from users, PMs, engineers, key stakeholders
• Resilience and flexibility that helps you adapt to a fast-paced work environment, frequent changes, and considerable ambiguity

Nice To Haves

• Bonus if you have experience with visual design for digital products, design systems and component libraries, and/or analyzing and interpreting data

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the current state user experience and work cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Engineering to identify UX/UI issues preventing users from getting the most value out of Niche, propose and implement improvements
• Support senior designers on larger projects by creating user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes that address clear user and business needs
• Assist others with lightweight evaluative/usability research to test solutions, analysis results and apply the findings to your designs
• Create clear design specs and collaborate with engineers to support smooth handoff and implementation
• Leverage qualitative and quantitative data to understand what’s working/not working, iterate on shipped experiences, and improve performance
• Participate in design critiques, team rituals, cross-functional meetings
• Support documentation and maintenance of design patterns, in partnership with senior designers and design system contributors

Benefits

• We are a fully flexible workforce empowering our employees to choose to work remotely, in our Pittsburgh office or whatever combination suits you
• Full time, salaried position with competitive compensation in a fast-growing company
• Best-in-class 100% paid employee health plan, including vision and dental and supplemental coverage
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy
• Stipend that allows you to build your work from home office in a style and function that suits your personal preferences
• Parental leave for all employees (12 weeks fully paid) in addition to short term disability for birthing parents
• Meaningful 401(k) wit h employer match
• Your ideas and work will make an immediate impact on our company and millions of users
• You will join a team that cares about you, our mission, our work - and celebrates our wins together!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed