Staff Product Designer, Education

Learning Commons•Redwood City, CA

17d•$170,000 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Learning Commons is hiring a Staff Product Designer to own developer experience for its education-focused AI infrastructure. The organization pairs technology with grantmaking to bring research-backed learning science into tools used by teachers and students. Its open, public-purpose infrastructure includes a Knowledge Graph of academic standards and learning components, Evaluators for measuring model quality in educational contexts, and Agent Skills used by partner organizations. The role will set the direction for how developers discover, evaluate, integrate, and continue using Learning Commons tools. This includes improving onboarding and conversion from interest to integration, evolving the dataset catalog, defining what developers can see about their integrations, and developing interactive experiences that let people try products before committing. The designer will establish a point of view on sustained use and create a coherent platform experience across product, catalog, documentation, and marketing surfaces. This is a strategic, hands-on design role for someone with strong visual and interaction design craft, product and platform ownership experience, and technical depth. The designer will shape integration flows, developer-facing performance views, discovery and access experiences, permissions and organization models, and shared design patterns. They will collaborate with engineering and the design systems lead, mentor designers, and help raise the quality bar across the team. The team prototypes in code and uses AI-native methods to ship and learn quickly. The position is hybrid, based in Redwood City, California, and requires onsite work at least 60% of the working month, approximately three days per week. The schedule is determined by the manager. The base pay range is $170,000–$190,000, and the role may be eligible for a discretionary annual performance bonus.

Requirements

At least 8 years of professional experience.
Strength in visual and interaction design, with the ability and desire to bring brand expression into the product.
Experience owning an entire product or platform in production and setting its direction.
Ability to frame ambiguous problems, make explicit value and risk tradeoffs, and bring stakeholders along.
Strong systems instincts, including interest in permissions, organization models, and multi-surface navigation.
Ability to read API references and discuss feasibility with engineers, designing within real constraints.
Ability to partner with a design systems designer so recommendations are adopted in the system rather than remaining one-off proposals.
Comfort using AI-native methods to ship quickly and learn, including prototyping in code and validating early.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end developer experience and establish a point of view on what drives sustained use, using research, usage data, and direct partner contact to develop an aligned roadmap.
Design developer integration views that show usage, quality, errors, and impact.
Lead systematic design across platform, catalog, documentation, and marketing surfaces, establishing patterns and information architecture.
Extend the dataset catalog and access experience with new features and richer discovery.
Develop the permission and organization models that underpin the access experience.
Partner with the design systems lead to ensure recommendations are incorporated into the design system and patterns are adopted.
Mentor designers across the team and serve as a sought-after design reviewer.