Senior Product Designer, Learner Assessments

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Product Designer to deliver innovative K-12 assessment solutions and design accessible product experiences for students in a scrappy, iterative environment.

Responsibilities

• Design innovative assessment experiences for learners, positively impacting individual learning goals and metrics
• Conduct discovery work to understand key problem areas in the Assessments space
• Collaborate closely with UX research to define knowledge gaps, research plans, and execute on generative and evaluative research with support from the UX research team
• Create strategic design artifacts that help the broader organization understand how the Assessments team fits in the larger organizational product portfolio and supports our goals of deep student learning (e.g. customer journey maps, competitive analysis)
• Design WCAG AA-compliant widgets in collaboration with the Learning Components team to be prioritized for Assessment content delivery
• Regularly contribute components and style guide documentation for our design system
• Collaborate with horizontal Learner product teams to design the end-to-end experience of how Assessments integrate with the existing educational platform
• Ideate on how generative AI features can be leveraged to support item creation and assessment content development
• Partner with the Director of Assessment and Chief Learning Officer to design iterative concepts towards the shared vision for assessment
• Partner with User Research and Data teams to understand user insights from the field, and leverage to improve the design experience
• Provide thoughtful input on the product roadmap, strategy and vision for what’s next
• Set a standard of operational excellence by driving the design side of projects effectively through strong project management, lightning-fast execution on design iterations, and clear communication
• Build alignment across diverse teams by being able to successfully present ideas to a range of teams and stakeholders across Khan Academy
• Invest in our org by mentoring, coaching and developing both your Design team comrades and your cross-functional partners
• Write about, present, and share what you have learned, both internally and with the wider Design community via our blog and industry events