Senior Product Designer
About The Position
ParentSquare is hiring a Senior Product Designer to own the end-to-end experience for a major area of its platform, used by families and educators in districts across the country. This new role is part of a cross-functional product team. The designer will take problems from discovery through shipped product, partnering with Product and Engineering as an equal voice in decisions about what gets built. They will work closely with UX Research and Design Systems practices, use AI tools to explore and prototype faster, and mentor other designers while helping raise the craft bar. The role supports ParentSquare’s mission of improving students’ lives through communication and reports to the Vice President, Product Design.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product design experience.
- Shipped work on complex web and native mobile products for iOS and Android.
- A portfolio with 2 to 3 in-depth case studies showing problem framing, decision-making, and measured results.
- Strong interaction design, information architecture, and visual design skills.
- Fluency in Figma, prototyping, and design systems.
- Experience running usability tests and using research and analytics to inform design.
- Hands-on experience using AI tools in a design workflow, such as Claude, Cursor, or Figma Make.
- Working knowledge of accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.2 AA.
- Clear communication skills and ability to influence product managers, engineers, and leadership.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in EdTech, K–12, or products where the buyer and end user are different people.
- Experience designing for multilingual or low-literacy users.
- Experience designing AI-powered features, including ways for users to review, control, and correct AI output.
- Experience prototyping in code using React or HTML and CSS with AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end design for a product area, from problem framing and discovery through shipped experience.
- Define problems before exploring solutions and challenge requests that appear to be solutions without a clear problem.
- Turn complex workflows, including district-wide messaging, forms, payments, and permissions, into simple experiences for users with varied behaviors and needs.
- Partner with UX Research, Customer Success, and Support to understand real usage, run usability tests, and make informed decisions.
- Design accessible, translation-ready experiences for families across languages, including right-to-left languages, abilities, devices, and levels of comfort with technology.
- Build on and contribute to the design system, delivering production-ready work that covers states, edge cases, responsive behavior, and native behavior.
- Use AI tools to prototype faster and design AI-powered features that users can understand, review, control, and correct.
- Present and defend design decisions in Design Crit and with stakeholders, then partner with engineers through implementation and review.
- Mentor other designers and help raise the craft bar across the team.
Benefits
- Employer-paid health insurance, including dependent coverage.
- Employer-matched 401K retirement savings program from day 1.
- Paid parental leave.
- Stock options.
- Health and wellness reimbursements.
- PTO that increases each year.
- 15 paid holidays, including your birthday.
- Tools and equipment for a home office.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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