Senior Product Designer Job at Khan Academy (Mountain View)

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to deliver innovative K-12 solutions for students, teachers, and admins, starting with assessments. The heart of this role will be designing accessible and innovative product experiences for students in a scrappy, iterative environment. You will play a vital role on an inclusive, collaborative, small but mighty Design team, helping us fulfill the mission of the organization: to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Job Responsibility

Design innovative solutions for students, teachers, and administrators
Conduct discovery work to understand key problem areas
Collaborate closely with UX research to define knowledge gaps and execute research
Create strategic design artifacts
Design WCAG AA-compliant widgets
Regularly contribute components and style guide documentation for our design system
Act as a critical participant in design reviews
Collaborate with other product teams to design the end-to-end experience
Ideate on how generative AI features can be leveraged
Partner with Product Managers, area Directors, and the Chief Learning Officer
Provide thoughtful input on the product roadmap, strategy and vision
Set a standard of operational excellence
Build alignment across diverse teams
Present your concepts at Design Team and org-wide meetings

Requirements

5+ years of relevant experience on an in-house product design team
5+ years of conducting research and working collaboratively with a UX research team
4+ years of experience designing accessible experiences
Strength across interaction design, prototyping, and information architecture, with visual design chops
Comfort in ambiguous situations and dynamic environments that run similar to a startup
Ability to juggle ambiguous and broad problems/opportunities along with smaller well-defined projects
Strong verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical partners
Ability to build strong relationships cross-functionally
A lean approach to product design
Motivated by the Khan Academy mission
Proven cross-cultural competency skills
Submitting a portfolio with your application is required