Sr. Product Designer

Niche is the leader in school search, aiming to simplify the process of researching and enrolling in schools. The Senior Product Designer will enhance partner school experiences by focusing on AI-generated content and personalized communication, working closely with cross-functional teams to create effective user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Design and iterate on key product features using data, research insights and product thinking to form your vision and bring it to life
• Collaborate with your cross-functional partners, researchers, analysts, and other designers to ship and iterate on design solutions that are strategic, thoughtful, and make a real impact to both customers and business
• Help raise the bar on the quality and craft of design work using systems thinking and workflows, information architecture and content strategy, product reasoning, wireframing and prototyping
• Communicate persuasively about your solutions and present to stakeholders, with the ability to facilitate productive discussions about feasibility, scope and requirements that moves work forward
• Strengthen our ability to develop hypotheses, experiment, iterate, and learn quickly through design artifacts and structured decision-making – even more important in a moment when ideas are cheap and generating interfaces with AI is trivial
• Meet and get familiar with your cross-functional team, fellow designers and researchers, and key stakeholders
• Understand the company mission and vision, business model, and current state of the product
• Get familiar with our design tools, Product org documentation, research process and user insights
• Join product team meetings and sprint cycles, starting with assisting other designers on projects in flight and participating in critique
• Fully operating in your role, working through the design process on improvements to live experiences and developing your design strategy aligned to business objectives
• Established a relationship with our Partner design lead and gained an understanding of the greater vision for the overarching Partner experience
• Collaborating closely with teammates, designers and researchers to shape and scope projects, identify dependencies, make confident design decisions backed by evidence
• Delivering solutions to increasingly complex challenges, starting to tackle longer-term evolution of the experience in your surface area
• Leading in your lane on the product team, identifying improvements to the way work gets done and how collaboration happens
• Identifying opportunities and presenting solutions using persuasive storytelling, concept design and prototypes, and a deep understanding of both business objectives and user needs
• Providing constructive and thoughtful feedback to other designers, jamming and collaborating for the greater good
• Contributing to improving Design tooling and processes, helping upskill or cross-train as needed and receiving training in return
• Proven track record driving impact to business objectives through leading design on complex projects
• Strong understanding of all major product areas, recognizing patterns across the platform, and contributing to the Partner design lead’s vision across the suite of Niche products
• Mentor and source of support for junior designers

Requirements:

• You have designed and shipped product features that customers love, for both mobile and desktop, and can articulate what it took to make that happen, from product strategy down to pixel-level decision-making
• You know how to roll data, research insights, business goals, technical constraints, and customer needs together into strongly-crafted solutions (mockups, prototypes, and flows)
• You iterate fast, ensure you gather feedback from both users and stakeholders, and use strategic reasoning to inform your decisions
• You enjoy and take pride in using your design skills to bring clarity and simplicity to both process and product
• You have experience working on cross-functional product teams in an agile environment
• You are a team player, curious about new ideas and excited to learn, comfortable with ambiguity and continuous improvements to process and planning
• Bonus if you have experience with any of these: marketing automation for people who are not power users
• generating copy using AI that saves people time while also conveying substance and feeling
• educating others on information architecture/content strategy and how those support and inform surface level UI decisions