Senior Product Designer I

Articulate

111d • $129,900 - $194,900

About The Position

Articulate is the leading SaaS provider of online training solutions for the new world of work. Our industry-leading software and services make it simple for enterprises and SMBs to develop, deliver, and analyze online training that’s engaging and effective. As a Sr Product Designer I, you are a trusted problem solver and tripod lead and usability owner in a smaller, well-defined product area. You bring strong design craft, user empathy, and product thinking to help your team move from discovery to delivery. You partner closely with Product and Engineering to shape usability, discovery, and delivery within your scope, ensuring solutions are usable, cohesive, and aligned with business goals.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of product design experience, including ownership of end-to-end features in SaaS environments.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and visual craft.
• Fluency in Figma and experience working with and contributing to design systems.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability heuristics, and rapid prototyping techniques.
• Experience collaborating in empowered product teams (tripods/trios).
• Strong communication and storytelling skills; able to explain design rationale clearly to peers and stakeholders.
• Self-directed, resilient, and collaborative — you seek clarity, raise the bar, and support others.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with hypothesis-driven product development.
• Familiarity with user research tools and usability testing methods.
• Experience sharing knowledge with peers or contributing to design culture.

Responsibilities

• Act as the design lead within your tripod, owning usability and guiding discovery and alignment in partnership with PM and Eng.
• Own features and smaller product areas end-to-end, delivering clear, usable, and polished design solutions.
• Advocate for usability in tripod decisions and support discovery by contributing evidence and design insights.
• Deliver thoughtful design solutions that balance user needs, technical feasibility, and business outcomes.
• Share feedback and perspective with peers, supporting mid-level designers through collaboration and critique.
• Contribute to the design system through use, refinement, and feedback to ensure consistency across surfaces.
• Own usability within your tripod by surfacing risks, testing assumptions, and ensuring solutions are user-centered.
• Translate product opportunities into clear design concepts, validated through lightweight testing.
• Participate in customer discovery sessions and synthesize research insights into actionable design direction.
• Apply working knowledge of products, users, and competitive landscape to inform product decisions.
• Deliver detailed design specs, flows, and prototypes that consider states, interactions, and edge cases.
• Create high-quality, intuitive, and cohesive experiences leveraging and contributing to the design system.
• Validate design ideas through lightweight prototyping and usability testing.
• Act as the design lead in your product tripod, helping shape roadmap scope and priorities while ensuring usability and alignment.
• Facilitate collaboration across PM and Eng partners by making decisions visible, surfacing trade-offs, and building shared understanding.
• Support design QA in collaboration with Engineering and QA partners to uphold usability and polish.
• Model strong design practices in critiques, team rituals, and cross-functional reviews.
• Share knowledge and feedback with peers, helping elevate design work across the team.
• Contribute ideas to improve team rituals and practices, supporting the design org’s continuous improvement.

Benefits

• This position is also bonus eligible.
• Articulate’s robust suite of benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees