Join Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) as a Senior Product Designer and bring your creativity to life by designing innovative and engaging experiences across our educational platforms that will challenge and inspire the next generation of problem solvers.
The Senior Product Designer will:
- Design experiences across our suite of educational products
- Collaborate closely with our Product, Academics, and Marketing teams to set design strategy, optimize existing user interfaces and experiences, and conceptualize user interfaces and experiences for new products and features
- Create, share, and iterate through ideas via storyboards, user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes, or other methods
- Collaborate with Engineering and Project Management to translate those ideas through implementation into delightful experiences
- Deliver solutions that consider engineering feasibility and technical requirements
- Help create a user-centric and data-driven culture by conducting research and user testing and by analyzing the data and outcomes of design projects
- Drive development of processes, standards, and best practices for design, testing, and research
- Provide mentorship to more junior designers
The ideal candidate has:
- 5+ years of UX/UI, Interaction, or Product Design experience
- A solid online portfolio showcasing exceptional design skills and systems thinking with a focus on user-centered design
- Experience designing scalable, complex, large-scale projects
- Experience developing innovative design solutions and participating in the design process from end-to-end
- Ability to work independently and manage design work with high-level stakeholders
- Ability to clearly communicate how design delivers on user, business, and product goals
- Excellent communication, collaboration, organization, and decision-making skills
Why Join AoPS: This is a hybrid full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. The full salary range for this position is 127.2k-159k. Here are some things you can look forward to:
- Impact: As a Senior Product Designer, your work will directly shape how students engage with and progress through AoPS's educational platforms, helping to inspire and develop the next generation of great problem solvers
- Flexibility: Casual work environment with a hybrid work week and flexible scheduling
- Benefits: Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans
- Future Planning: 401(k) with company match
- Quality of Life: PTO Plan and supportive leadership that gives you the work-life balance you deserve
- Ease of Transition: Relocation bonus (if currently located outside of San Diego)
Background Check: Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.
Work Authorization: Please note that in order to be considered for this position you must be legally authorized to work in the US. We are unable to offer sponsorship, including STEM-OPT and H-1B.
About AoPS: Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country's top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of UX/UI, Interaction, or Product Design experience
- A solid online portfolio showcasing exceptional design skills and systems thinking
- Experience designing scalable, complex, large-scale projects
- Ability to work independently and manage design work
- Excellent communication, collaboration, organization, and decision-making skills
What We Do
Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is dedicated to discovering, inspiring, and training the next generation of problem solvers. Since 2003, we've empowered over a million top students with our innovative problem solving curriculum. While our roots are in math, AoPS has expanded to language arts, science, and computer science to meet the growing challenges of the 21st century. At AoPS, students master the skills to tackle complex problems they’ve never seen before—the key to success in academics, careers, and life. Our programs, AoPS Online, AoPS Academy, and Beast Academy offer a wide range of deliveries to best support our learners' needs, including self-paced, in-person, and online class options. Follow us as we grow and join our team of builders, collaborators, and life-long learners!
Why Work With Us
AoPS brings together creative thinkers and problem solvers from diverse backgrounds. Our team includes builders, gamers, puzzle masters, crafters, writers, adventurers, artists, animal lovers, fitness gurus--in every combination! We are connected by our passion for helping students succeed and become the next generation of leaders.
