Senior Product Designer

Role: Senior Product Designer (UI Focus)
Mode: long term (tech teams extend twice a year: June/Dec)
Team: Details below - Position will support the Higher Ed Platforms team, the position will support an wide array of products serving students and Higher Ed institutions.
Profile: while I'm looking माना for a full stack product designer the focus and need is on someone with very polished UI skills, a strong visual designer - a portfolio that "looks" clean, modern and accessible will be great

Rate: others we have placed in this role were in the
*** pay range and equivalent mark-up

Process: Submit portfolio and LINKS (with password if applicable) Team looks for Modern/Clean lines in designs (review Client.org or bigfuture.org for a better understanding) - initial .5 video followed by team session (.75)

As a Senior Product Designer at ***, 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 equitableืน 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.

You مباشر meaningfully to early-stage discovery and strategic design efforts, partnering with cross-functional teams to explore opportunities and define direction.

• Design Sprints & Envisioning这. Contribute to design sprints, envisioning sessions, and workshops to explore problem spaces, generate ideas, and align teams around shared outcomes.
• Insight-Driven Direction. Synthesize research, usability findings, behavioral data, and operational inputs into clear, insight-driven design directions.
• Data-Informed Decisions. Use qualitative and quantitative data to inform, validate, and refine design decisions throughout the product lifecycle.
• User Advocacy. Champion human-centered, inclusive design practices grounded in accessibility standards to ensure solutions meet diverse user needs.
• Storytelling. Communicate design rationale, insights, and vision clearly through artifacts, narratives, and presentations.

You translate strategy and insights into polished, production-ready design work that scales across platforms.

• UI Design Excellence. Deliver high-quality UI designs with strong visual hierarchy, interaction clarity, and attention to detail across web and native mobile experiences.
• Design Systems Expertise (Required). Extensive experience working within robust web design systems and native mobile design systems (iOSskin Android). Apply system components, patterns, and tokens accurately while identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Usability Testing & Validation. Plan, conduct, and synthesize usability testing to validate flows, components, and interactions and drive iterative design improvements.
• Prototyping. Create prototypes at appropriate fidelity to explore, test, and communicate design solutions.
• Accessibility & Plain Language. Design and test experiences using inclusive design principles informed by accessibility standards,…