Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Niche as a Senior Product Designer and leverage your design and research expertise to craft impactful experiences for our Core Business product pod. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create seamless user experiences that advance personalized school search and enrollment. You will help elevate the design team's quality and efficiency while tackling real-world problems impacting millions. This is an opportunity to significantly influence product development, from enhancing existing features to envisioning future experiences. The role involves designing and iterating on key product features, collaborating with cross-functional partners, and presenting solutions to stakeholders. You will also contribute to improving design tools and processes and mentoring other designers.

Requirements

• You have designed and shipped product features that customers love, for both mobile and desktop, and can articulate what it took to make that happen, from product strategy down to pixel-level decision-making
• You know how to roll data, research insights, business goals, technical constraints, and customer needs together into strongly-crafted solutions (mockups, prototypes, and flows)
• You iterate fast, ensure you gather feedback, and use strategic reasoning to inform your decisions
• You enjoy and take pride in using your design skills to bring clarity and simplicity to both process and product
• You have experience working on cross-functional product teams in an agile environment
• You are a team player, curious about new ideas and excited to learn, comfortable with ambiguity and an ever-evolving team + product experience

Responsibilities

• Design and iterate on key product features using data, research insights and product thinking to form your vision and bring it to life
• Collaborate with your cross-functional partners and other designers to ship and iterate on design solutions that are strategic, thoughtful, and make a real impact to both customers and business
• Help raise the bar on the quality and craft of design work using systems thinking and workflows, information architecture and content strategy, product reasoning, wireframing and prototyping
• Communicate persuasively about your solutions and present to stakeholders, with the ability to facilitate productive discussions and move work forward
• Strengthen our ability to develop hypotheses, experiment, iterate, and learn quickly through design artifacts and structured decision-making
• Learn about Niche by meeting with various team members to learn more about our company through our Onboarding meetings
• Meet and get familiar with your cross-functional team, fellow designers and researchers, and key stakeholders
• Understand the company mission and vision, business model, and current state of the product
• Get familiar with our design tools, knowledge base, and research insights
• Join product team meetings and sprint cycles, starting with assisting other designers on projects in flight
• Fully operate in your role, developing design strategy aligned to business objectives and working through the design process
• Collaborate closely with designers in other areas to make stronger design decisions and identify dependencies
• Deliver solutions to increasingly complex challenges, starting to tackle longer-term vision and evolution of the experience in your surface area
• Lead in your lane on the product team, identifying improvements to the way work gets done and how collaboration happens
• Identify opportunities and presenting solutions using persuasive storytelling, concept designs, and a deep understanding of both business objectives and user needs
• Provide constructive and thoughtful feedback to other designers
• Able to contribute to improving Design tools and processes
• Primary designer for one or more product teams handling complex, business-critical projects
• Have a strong understanding of all major product areas, recognizing patterns, and contributing to design strategy across the suite of Niche products
• Mentor and source of support for other designers

Preferred Qualifications

Extra bonus if you're experienced with one or more of: multi-sided marketplaces, products for Gen Z and Gen Alpha, or AI products in production

Benefits

• Our national target base salary range is $130,000-$150,000, plus participation in our Annual Bonus and Stock Option Program
• Base compensation will be commensurate with experience and skills
• Best-in-class 100% paid employee health plan, including vision and dental and supplemental coverage
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy
• Stipend that allows you to build your work from home office in a style and function that suits your personal preferences
• Parental leave for all employees (12 weeks fully paid) in addition to short term disability for birthing parents
• Meaningful 401(k) with employer match
• We are a fully flexible workforce empowering our employees to choose to work remotely, in our Pittsburgh office or whatever combination suits you