Senior Product Designer, Lead

Who We Are

ParentSquare is a rapidly growing Santa Barbara-based company that’s changing the way schools and parents communicate every day. Sound simple? We strive to keep it that way! Our mission is to give schools the power to incredibly enhance family engagement for all students. ParentSquare and RemindHub, our flagship products, serve over 22 million students and drive our mission by providing unified communications tools -forms, sign ups, payments, RSVPs, direct messaging, language translations, chat and more. Remind Chat, our free product, reaches over 80% of K-12 students, providing a safe and easy-to-use platform for direct communication between teachers and families. And our latest innovation, SmartSites, offers state-of-the-art websites for school districts, enhancing their online presence and accessibility.

We are not just creating a product; we are creating empowered educators and engaged parents to improve the lives of all students. We are passionate advocates for our customers and for our employees and we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

Who We’re Looking for

Someone Who

• Has experience designing for technical audiences (status dashboards, user management, integrations, etc.)
• Can effectively take a systems view of administrative features
• Is open to and responds quickly to feedback from peers (design, product, etc.) and leadership
• A good communicator who clarifies problems to solve and aligns the team on an approach
• Works independently and effectively with Product and Engineering to represent a pillar (collection of features) for admin users
  
  

Most importantly, you’re someone who shares in our passion for improving the lives of students through communication.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and leadership to create wireframes and other design artifacts
• Surface opportunities to improve processes and customer experiences
• Deliver designs that align with the ParentSquare design system, standards, and accessibility requirements
• Deliver designs within scope and required timeframe
• Clearly communicate and present your work and learnings to peers and leadership
• Deliver dev-ready artifacts and collaborate with Engineering through implementation
• Be self-directed, organized, motivated and driven to get the details right
• Mentor one or more junior team members
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a product or user experience designer
• Experience implementing accessibility standards a strong plus
• Proficient using Figma and JIRA
• Enterprise app experience
• Experience in EdTech is a plus
• Online portfolio showing UI skills is required
  
  

The perks of working for us are great!

You’ll Get Your Foot In The Door As Our Company Continues To Grow. We’re Big Believers In Work-life Balance And Provide

• Employer-paid health insurance (including dependent coverage)
• An employer-matched 401K retirement savings program from day 1
• Paid Parental Leave
• Stock options
• Health + wellness reimbursements
• PTO that increases each year
• 15 paid holidays, including your birthday!
  
  

As a fully remote team, we’ll make sure you have all the tools and equipment you need to make your home office a place where you can thrive.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

The salary range for this role will be $120,000 to $170,000, DOE