Principal Product Designer

Quizlet • Saint Louis, MO

1d • $220,281 - $289,119 • Hybrid

About The Position

Quizlet is seeking a Principal Product Designer to raise the bar for end-to-end design across its product portfolio and make Quizlet feel like one cohesive learning experience. The role will help connect flashcards, tests and quizzes, podcasts, AI-enabled study guides, search, and AI-driven discovery so learners can move among them seamlessly and gain value from the whole product.

This is an end-to-end individual contributor role. The designer will shape strategy for initiatives, potentially going deep in one area while roving across high-priority projects to improve design strategy where it has the most leverage. The role combines hands-on delivery with cross-functional leadership, partnering with design, product, and engineering leaders and advising the executive team on the product’s long-term direction.

The Principal Product Designer will establish design principles and a quality rubric covering interaction, visual craft, accessibility, AI behavior, and repeatable patterns; build a cross-team critique program; and develop a living model of how Quizlet’s tools connect throughout the student journey. The role will translate a multi-year product vision into sequenced work and delightful incremental experiences, drive adoption of design standards, align teams on shared patterns and roadmaps, and continually improve design quality and cohesion across the organization.

Requirements

• 12 or more years of product design experience.
• A portfolio demonstrating company-level vision that shipped and measurably moved the business.
• Track record of creating cohesion across a multi-product or multi-surface portfolio by unifying patterns, conventions, and experiences built by multiple teams.
• Platform and systems thinking, including the ability to design capabilities that compose end-to-end and demonstrate how that composition created customer value.
• Exceptional interaction and visual craft across web and native mobile, with demonstrated ability to make MVPs delightful as well as functional.
• Deep experience designing AI-powered experiences, including conversational, generative, and agentic patterns, and a point of view on consistency across a product.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and align designers, product managers, and engineering leads on shared conventions and connected roadmaps.
• Clear, compelling communication with executives, including framing long-term bets and trade-offs between near-term delivery and long-term vision.
• Experience improving a design organization through programs, principles, critique, and mentorship that visibly raised its quality bar.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing for students, education, or younger audiences, including familiarity with privacy and age-appropriate design.

Responsibilities

• Redefine Quizlet’s design standards by establishing design principles, a quality rubric, and repeatable patterns covering interaction, visual craft, accessibility, and AI behavior.
• Build and run a cross-team design critique program, including its cadence, format, and shared quality rubric.
• Develop and maintain a model of how flashcards, tests, podcasts, study guides, search, and AI-driven discovery connect throughout the student journey.
• Translate the long-term product vision into sequenced, high-impact work and delightful MVP experiences that move toward the multi-year vision.
• Drive adoption of design standards across launches, identify quality risks, and help mitigate them before launch.
• Lead major, long-term cross-product initiatives by identifying opportunities, setting vision, and driving strategy with limited guidance.
• Move across portfolio projects to improve design strategy where it has the most leverage, and contribute hands-on when delivery requires it.
• Orchestrate work across designers and teams, aligning visual and interaction conventions and coordinating roadmaps.
• Advise the executive team on the end-to-end product experience and influence company-wide strategic decisions.
• Build shared conviction across Quizlet about high-quality end-to-end design and unify patterns across search, AI interactions, and study experiences.
• Develop programs that create significant improvements in design quality and cohesion across the design department.
• Recognize and resolve fragmenting patterns before they reach learners.
• Innovate on the use of AI in the design process to improve quality and speed.

Benefits

• 20 vacation days.
• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance, including 100% employee and 75% dependent PPO coverage, dental insurance, and VSP Choice.
• Employer-sponsored 401(k) plan with company match.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning and other professional growth resources.
• Paid Family Leave.
• Flexible spending account (FSA) and health savings account (HSA).
• Commuter benefits.
• Wellness benefits.
• 40 hours of annual paid time off for volunteer programs of choice.
• Support for creating a healthy work-life balance with the manager and team.

What This Job Offers

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