[Hiring] Director, UX Design & Engineering @Leading Educators Careers

Role Description

Leading Educators is seeking a Director, UX Design & Engineering to lead the design and front-end development of AI-enabled product experiences across our innovation portfolio. In this role, you'll close the critical gap between product vision and usable, working tools—translating product requirements, user research, and emerging ideas into clear, coherent, testable front-end experiences that educators and students will actually use.

This is your opportunity to shape the future of educational technology by designing interfaces and experiences that make a tangible difference in how teachers teach and students learn.

• Operate as a thought partner to product leaders, directors, and user researchers.
• Help teams make stronger product decisions by clarifying front-end possibilities and identifying design tradeoffs.
• Translate ambiguous concepts into tangible experiences.
• Design and build high-fidelity prototypes, shaping reusable interface patterns.
• Strengthen the quality and consistency of product experiences across tools.

This is a highly independent Director role for someone who thrives in ambiguity and can move fluidly between structured product requirements and early-stage concepting. You'll also work closely with external development partners, representing LE's product priorities clearly while navigating shared dependencies with professionalism and clarity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in UX design, product design, front-end development, UX engineering, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated strength in UX/UI design, including interaction design, visual design, information architecture, and usability-centered product thinking.
• Demonstrated ability to build high-fidelity prototypes and functional front-end experiences.
• Professional experience using front-end technologies such as React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Ability to translate both detailed product requirements and ambiguous early-stage concepts into usable front-end designs and prototypes.
• Demonstrated success interpreting user research or usability-testing findings and translating them into design improvements.
• Experience working across cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects or priorities simultaneously.
• Ability to make sound independent recommendations about user experience direction, prototype design, and front-end tradeoffs.
• Comfort working in an environment where processes, pathways, and technical structures are still being built.

Requirements

• Experience designing and prototyping AI-enabled products (strongly preferred).
• Experience conducting or closely supporting user testing for digital tools (strongly preferred).
• Education or education technology experience (strongly preferred).
• Familiarity with accessibility standards, including ADA and WCAG guidelines (strongly preferred).
• Portfolio evidence demonstrating shipped interfaces and/or functional prototypes, along with the ability to explain design and technical decisions (strongly preferred).

Benefits

• Base compensation range: $113,714 to $144,157 annually.
• New hires typically enter the range at a set comp ratio (e.g., 0.95 or 0.98).
• Salary entry point for this position: $125,354.
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for individual employees.
• Additional premium costs are covered 60% by Leading Educators for partners and dependents.
• 4% matching 401k plan.
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, childcare, and commuter expenses.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Benefits valued at or above $9,000 for employees.
• First three years of employment: full-time staff accrue 22 days a year.
• Five additional days accrued after the third and sixth year of employment.
• 16 additional paid days off for various holidays, including three floating holidays.