Senior Product Designer (100% Remote)

Our Customer is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, they were created to expand access to higher education. Today, the membership association is made up of over 6,000 of the world’s leading educational institutions and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. Each year, our Customer helps more than seven million students prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success—including the SAT, the Advanced Placement Program, and BigFuture. The organization also serves the education community through research and advocacy on behalf of students, educators, and schools.

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer on a contract basis to help support our Customer’s business needs. This role is 100% remote.

As a Senior Product Designer, you are a highly skilled, thoughtful, and user-centered practitioner with a passion for designing products and experiences that meet real user needs. You bring strong UI design craft, usability rigor, and systems thinking to complex, content-rich products across web and native mobile platforms.

You will work across one or more cross-functional teams and products, collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and other designers to shape, validate, and deliver high-quality design solutions. You are comfortable working independently on defined problem spaces while actively seeking feedback, alignment, and shared understanding with teammates and design leadership.

This role places a strong emphasis on UI design excellence, usability validation, inclusive design informed by accessibility standards, and working within robust design systems. You bring a structured, detail-oriented approach to your work, maintaining organized files, clear documentation, and consistent design artifacts, while following established team processes and offering thoughtful feedback to improve them.

You are an advocate for users and equitable experiences. As a creative problem solver, you identify patterns across large systems, balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, and bring clarity to complex challenges while staying focused on impact.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to early-stage product discovery and strategic design efforts in partnership with cross-functional teams
• Participate in design sprints, envisioning sessions, and workshops to explore problem spaces and align on outcomes
• Synthesize research findings, usability insights, behavioral data, and operational inputs into a clear design direction
• Apply qualitative and quantitative data to inform, validate, and refine design decisions across the product lifecycle
• Advocate for human-centered and inclusive design practices aligned with accessibility standards
• Communicate design rationale and vision through clear artifacts, narratives, and presentations
• Deliver high-quality UI designs with strong visual hierarchy, interaction clarity, and attention to detail across web and native mobile platforms
• Apply and contribute to established design systems for web and native mobile experiences
• Identify gaps and opportunities for improvement within design system components and patterns
• Plan, conduct, and synthesize usability testing to validate flows, components, and interactions
• Create prototypes at appropriate fidelity to explore, test, and communicate design solutions
• Design responsive, mobile-first web experiences and native mobile applications
• Apply accessibility standards and plain-language principles to improve clarity and comprehension
• Use AI-assisted tools to support ideation, prototyping, and iteration where appropriate
• Maintain organized and well-documented design files and artifacts
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and stakeholders throughout delivery
• Participate in standups, sprint planning, design reviews, critiques, and quality assurance cycles
• Translate design decisions into clear, implementation-ready specifications and annotations
• Present design concepts, insights, and solutions effectively in synchronous and asynchronous settings

Skills and Qualifications:

• Portfolio demonstrating relevant product or service design work
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience
• 3–7 years of experience in product or service design
• Strong product design mindset with experience designing complex, content-rich websites and applications
• Proficiency in creating design artifacts such as user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs
• Strong foundation in design thinking and human-centered design methodologies
• Extensive experience working within web and native mobile design systems
• Experience planning and conducting usability testing and incorporating findings into design iterations
• Strong understanding of responsive design, inclusive design principles, and accessibility standards
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and discuss technical constraints
• Familiarity with front-end technologies preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Collaborative mindset with a focus on user advocacy
• Curiosity and adaptability with interest in emerging design tools and AI-supported workflows

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.