Fast Facts

We are looking for a Principal User Experience Designer to spearhead experience design for data visualization and reporting across K–12 educational technology platforms, ensuring systems thinking elevates insights at scale. This position demands a leader experienced in optimizing design systems and translating complex educational data into intuitive user experiences.

Responsibilities: Leading UX strategy for reporting and dashboard initiatives, expanding the design system, and ensuring UX alignment across multiple products.

Skills: Expertise in UX/Product Design, data visualization, and design systems; strong understanding of interaction modeling and accessibility standards.

Qualifications: 8+ years in UX/Product Design at a senior or principal level, with a background in EdTech or analytics-heavy products preferred.

Location: United States

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $120,000 - $180,000.

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