Principal User Experience Designer

We are seeking a Principal UX Designer to lead experience design for complex reporting, data visualization, and learning analytics experiences across our K–12 educational technology platforms. This role will also serve as a senior leader in evolving and optimizing our mature design system.

This is not a component-consumer role. We are looking for someone who has built, scaled, and governed design systems in mature product environments — and who understands how system thinking elevates reporting, dashboards, and AI-driven insights at scale.

You will work at the intersection of product strategy, AI innovation, analytics, and scalable design infrastructure — translating complex educational data into intuitive, actionable experiences for educators and administrators.

What You’ll Own

1. Reporting & Data Visualization Strategy

You will lead the UX strategy and execution for high-impact reporting and dashboard initiatives, including:

• Administrative dashboards and system-level reporting tools

• Complex student performance and growth data visualizations

• AI-driven insight experiences (e.g., Assignment AI Insights)

• Combined math, literacy, and Lexile reporting enhancements

• Learning analytics experiences within multi-product ecosystems

You will:

• Translate complex educational data, learning analytics, and AI outputs into clear, actionable user experiences

• Define visualization patterns that scale across products

• Ensure dashboards support decision-making, not just data display

• Simplify multi-dimensional datasets without oversimplifying meaning

• Establish UX principles for reporting consistency across product lines

2. Design System Leadership (Mature System Environment)

You will play a critical role in strengthening and optimizing our design system.

We are specifically looking for someone who has:

• Built components from scratch — not just assembled existing libraries

• Defined usage guidelines, interaction models, and accessibility standards

• Partnered with engineering to implement token-based systems

• Led governance, contribution models, and release cycles

• Improved system adoption across multiple product teams

Responsibilities include:

• Expanding system patterns for data visualization and reporting

• Defining scalable charting, dashboard, and insight components

• Creating documentation that enables consistency across teams

• Establishing feedback loops between product design and system evolution

• Driving process optimization for intake, review, and release

• Ensuring accessibility and performance standards are embedded at the system level

3. Cross-Product Experience Alignment

• Provide strategic UX continuity across multiple product lines

• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and AI teams

• Align reporting experiences across platforms to reduce fragmentation

• Establish UX standards for how AI insights are surfaced and explained

• Ensure experience cohesion while enabling product-specific differentiation

What You Bring

Required Experience

• 8+ years in UX/Product Design, including experience at a senior or principal level

• Deep expertise in data visualization and dashboard design

• Demonstrated experience designing complex administrative or analytics tools

• Experience working with AI-driven features and insight surfacing

• Proven experience building and scaling a mature design system

• Experience creating components, not just consuming them

• Strong understanding of:

  • Design tokens

  • Accessibility (WCAG)

  • Interaction modeling

  • Responsive and scalable layout systems

  • Data visualization best practices

• Experience partnering directly with engineering to ensure system fidelity

Ideal Background

• Experience in EdTech, SaaS, enterprise platforms, or analytics-heavy products

• Experience designing for educators, administrators, or institutional users

• Familiarity with learning analytics or student performance reporting

• Experience working in multi-product ecosystems

• Experience leading cross-functional design reviews and governance

How You Think

• Systems thinker — you see patterns across products and create scalable solutions

• Data translator — you make complexity understandable without losing nuance

• Craft-driven — you care deeply about interaction details and clarity

• Process optimizer — you improve how design systems are built and maintained

• Strategic partner — you influence roadmap decisions, not just screens

• AI-curious — you think critically about how insights are presented, explained, and trusted

Impact You’ll Have

• Elevate reporting from “data display” to decision-support experiences

• Improve consistency and scalability across products through system maturity

• Enable faster development through robust, well-documented components

• Increase clarity and usability of AI-generated insights

• Reduce UX fragmentation across the product ecosystem