As a Senior Product Designer you’ll lead projects and collaborate closely with our business, product, and development teams to solve challenges for school administrators (K-12 and higher ed institutions), students, and families around payments and communications creating a unified, connected, and understandable experience.
You’ll contribute to the mission of NBS by:
- Helping create a connected user experience across products which leverage multiple pieces of technology to deliver solutions to schools, families, and our internal support and implementation teams.
- Maintaining a high bar for design excellence. You’ll ensure outstanding product experiences, producing high-quality work no matter how big or small the task may be.
- Using your full range of Product Design skills–not limited to design prototypes– to discover, design, and deliver simple, well-crafted experiences that our customers love. You’ll leverage your excellent communication skills to align and collaborate.
- Actively contribute to our healthy design team culture by mentoring other designers, participating in design reviews, and helping improve processes.
This role will give you the opportunity to:
- Make an impact. You envision ways to accomplish our defined business needs with a clean, understandable, and accessible user experience.
- Elevate product quality. You’ll work on an enterprise-level product suite with ample opportunities to modernize and streamline experiences.
- Be part of positive change. Everyday we’re investing in the educational lives of students and their families by serving schools and their staff.
A bit about you:
- You have a portfolio of well-crafted, impactful work that showcases your ability to lead successful projects that solve real problems.
- You’re a seasoned collaborator, designing in the open, leveraging other functions’ expertise, and taking them on the journey with you.
- You have strong visual design and interaction design skills, with a passion for high quality fit and finish. You’ve worked with design systems to produce beautiful and functional designs that scale.
- You can articulate your decisions clearly and credibly, relying on qualitative and quantitative data to inform your perspective.
- Produce expert-level design work that achieves business goals, delivers value and is easy to use.
- Owns and is accountable for large features or projects, as well as leading and managing the full process including research, prototyping, and user testing.
- Mentor other designers, providing sound design feedback that elevates the work.
- Present complex design work clearly and answer questions from various departments and stakeholders.
- Contribute to design team culture and growth by mentorship and feedback.
- 4+ years of experience designing for web or digital products. A portfolio will be required.
- Experience or interest in using data to inform design and product decisions.
- Experience with the full design process including research, ideation, testing, evaluating, and communicating results.
- Experience mentoring designers and leading large-scale projects.
- Ability to lead and manage large scale projects.
- Expert at Figma.
- Familiarity with Pendo or similar analytics platform.
- Ability to produce stellar design work that is clean, modern, easy-to-use, and solves user and business needs.
- Thinks strategically and critically through design work, connecting dots between projects and user feedback loops
- Takes ownership in creating a positive work environment for the team.
- Enjoys sharing knowledge with others and volunteering to help other designers.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.