Lead Product Designer

Panorama Education is a technology company building a platform for student insight and action in K-12. As a Lead Product Designer, you will address complex design challenges and create scalable solutions that empower educators while collaborating with Product and Engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Shape and evolve core product experiences: Lead design efforts across new and existing product areas, creating experiences for educators and students that connect them with Panorama's data and insights and deliver immediate, meaningful value
• Design AI-powered and AI-assisted experiences: Define AI-native features and design systems for human-agent collaboration, focusing on interaction models, workflows, and user experiences
• Contribute to and evolve the design system: Define new components, design tokens, interaction patterns, and documentation; build production-ready accessible components with engineering; drive adoption and patterns for AI-native interactions across multiple products
• Raise the bar on craft for the team: Lead by example through strong visual design, interaction design, and prototyping. Give thoughtful feedback, mentor designers, and help build a culture of high standards and continuous learning
• Champion accessibility and inclusive design: Build WCAG 2.2 AA compliance into your process from the start. For Panorama, accessibility isn't a checklist, it's a reflection of our commitment to equitable tools for every educator
• Lead discovery and research: Partner with Product to run user interviews, usability tests, and synthesis sessions, keeping educator and student needs at the center of product decisions
• Communicate with clarity and conviction: Present design strategy and rationale to cross-functional stakeholders and senior leadership, articulating trade-offs and advocating for design decisions with evidence

Requirements:

• 7+ years of Product Design experience, ideally in a B2B SaaS environment
• A portfolio demonstrating strong design craft, end-to-end product thinking, and systems-level reasoning
• Hands-on AI design experience: you've shipped AI-powered or AI-assisted features, see AI as a partner in creativity and efficiency, and have an evolving point of view on design's role in AI, automation, and emerging technologies
• Data visualization expertise: you turn complex, multi-layered data into clear, actionable insight for users across varying levels of data literacy
• Accessibility expertise: working knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, built into your process from the start
• A natural mentor who raises the bar through feedback, knowledge sharing, and ongoing experimentation
• A genuine belief that well-designed tools can advance equity and improve outcomes for students
• K–12 edtech experience is a plus