[Hiring] Sr. Product Designer @Niche

Role Description

Niche is on a mission to make researching and enrolling in schools easy, transparent, and free. We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to continuously improve our partner school experiences focused on AI-generated message content and student-level personalized communication across web and mobile.

• Design and iterate on key product features using data, research insights, and product thinking.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners, researchers, analysts, and other designers.
• Help raise the bar on the quality and craft of design work.
• Communicate persuasively about your solutions and present to stakeholders.
• Strengthen our ability to develop hypotheses, experiment, iterate, and learn quickly.

During the First Month:

• Meet and get familiar with your cross-functional team, fellow designers, and researchers.
• Understand the company mission and vision, business model, and current state of the product.
• Get familiar with our design tools, Product org documentation, research process, and user insights.
• Join product team meetings and sprint cycles.

Within 3 Months:

• Fully operating in your role, working through the design process on improvements.
• Established a relationship with our Partner design lead.
• Collaborating closely with teammates to shape and scope projects.
• Delivering solutions to increasingly complex challenges.

Within 6 Months:

• Leading in your lane on the product team.
• Identifying opportunities and presenting solutions.
• Providing constructive and thoughtful feedback to other designers.
• Contributing to improving Design tooling and processes.

Within 12 Months:

• Proven track record driving impact to business objectives.
• Strong understanding of all major product areas.
• Mentor and source of support for junior designers.

Qualifications

• You have designed and shipped product features that customers love, for both mobile and desktop.
• You know how to roll data, research insights, business goals, technical constraints, and customer needs together into strongly-crafted solutions.
• You iterate fast and gather feedback from both users and stakeholders.
• You enjoy and take pride in using your design skills to bring clarity and simplicity.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bonus if you have experience with marketing automation for non-power users.
• Experience generating copy using AI that saves time while conveying substance.
• Educating others on information architecture/content strategy.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation in a fast-growing company.
• Best-in-class 100% paid employee health plan, including vision and dental.
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy.
• Stipend for building your work from home office.
• Parental leave for all employees (12 weeks fully paid).
• Meaningful 401(k) with employer match.
• Your ideas and work will make an immediate impact on our company.
• Join a team that cares about you and celebrates wins together.

Company Description

Niche is the leader in school search, helping millions of people find the right school for them. We also assist thousands of schools in recruiting best-fit students.