Articulate · 2 months ago
Senior Product Designer I
United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$130K/yr - $195K/yr
5+ years expArticulate is the leading SaaS provider of online training solutions for the new world of work. As a Senior Product Designer I, you will act as the design lead within your team, owning usability and guiding discovery while delivering clear and polished design solutions. You will collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure that design outcomes are user-centered and aligned with business goals.
E-LearningEdTechEducationSoftwareTraining
No H1B
Responsibilities
Act as the design lead within your tripod, owning usability and guiding discovery and alignment in partnership with PM and Eng
Own discovery and a minimum single problem area end-to-end, delivering clear, usable, and polished design hypotheses and solutions
Advocate for usability in tripod decisions and support discovery by contributing evidence and design insights
Deliver thoughtful design solutions that balance user needs, technical feasibility, and business outcomes
Share feedback and perspective with peers, supporting mid-level designers through collaboration and critique
Contribute to the design system through use, refinement, and feedback to ensure consistency across surfaces
Own usability within your tripod by proactively surfacing risks, testing assumptions, and ensuring solutions are user-centered
Set and uphold the usability bar from early access to GA, ensuring iterative work feels usable, intuitive, valuable, and strategically impactful
Optimize for speed to value while clearly articulating smart quality tradeoffs and building highly usable experiences through a longer journey of experimentation
Translate product opportunities into clear design concepts, validated through lightweight testing
Participate in customer discovery sessions and synthesize research insights into actionable design direction
Apply working knowledge of products, users, and competitive landscape to inform product decisions
Model practices of testing and experimentation that enable fast learning and continuous value delivery into the hands of customers
Deliver detailed design specs, flows, and prototypes that consider states, interactions, and edge cases
Create high-quality, intuitive, and cohesive experiences leveraging and contributing to the design system
Test design ideas and hypotheses through lightweight prototyping and usability testing
Act as the design lead in your product tripod, helping shape roadmap scope and priorities while ensuring usability and alignment
Drive project planning within your scope, setting clear timelines and priorities
Ensure timely delivery by balancing trade-offs and managing competing demands across design, product, and engineering
Facilitate collaboration across PM and Eng partners by making decisions visible, surfacing trade-offs, and building shared understanding
Support design QA in collaboration with Engineering and QA partners to uphold usability and polish
Model strong design practices in critiques, team rituals, and cross-functional reviews
Actively research and share industry trends, benchmarks, and emerging design practices to help elevate the team and inform product direction
Proactively contribute to team rituals for your tripod (crits, QAs, planning) and provide support to your design team peers for a net positive impact
Share knowledge and feedback with peers, helping elevate design work across the team
Qualification
Required
5+ years of product design experience, including ownership of end-to-end features in SaaS environments
Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and visual craft
Fluency in Figma and experience working with and contributing to design systems
Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability heuristics, and rapid prototyping techniques
Experience collaborating in empowered product teams (tripods/trios)
Strong communication and storytelling skills; able to explain design rationale clearly to peers and stakeholders
Self-directed, resilient, and collaborative — you seek clarity, raise the bar, and support others
Preferred
Experience with hypothesis-driven product development
Familiarity with user research tools and usability testing methods
Experience sharing knowledge with peers or contributing to design culture
Benefits
This position is also bonus eligible
This position is eligible for Articulate’s robust suite of benefits
Company
Articulate
Articulate develops a workplace training platform that provides online courses for management systems.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$1.5BKey Investors
General Atlantic
2021-07-01Series A· $1.5B
Leadership Team
Kerry Hannigan Munz
Chief Technology Officer
Wendy Stockholm
Business Transformation Advisor | Interim Head of Data | CoS to CTO
Recent News
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