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Staff Product Designer, Districts

Khan Academy Remote (🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America)

Remote $152,908 - $160,553 Full-time Senior

The Staff Product Designer will drive the end-to-end design architecture for the Next-Gen Administrator platform, focusing on increasing engagement and usability. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to iterate on existing products and design new experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Leverage your product design and systems thinking skills to form and advocate for a clear Design POV for making enhancements to an existing user platform
  • Create end-to-end design artifacts–including journey maps, system maps, wireframes and flows, low-high fidelity mockups, AI-scaffolded prototypes—to test hypotheses around solutions impacting clarity, reach, engagement, and product cohesion
  • Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Content, and Partnerships to iterate on existing products and design new experiences
  • In collaboration with your Senior Design Manager, UXR specialists, and partners, plan and facilitate light research sessions to advance the decision-making process
  • Set a standard of operational excellence by driving the design side of projects effectively through strong project management, fast execution on design iterations, and clear communication of validated rationale

Requirements

  • At least 10+ years of relevant experience on an in-house product design team
  • Outstanding across information architecture and ecosystem design, interaction design, and prototyping, with strong visual design skills
  • Ability to juggle ambiguous and broad problems/opportunities along with smaller well-defined projects
  • Critical participant in design reviews, both in delivering feedback to teammates to strengthen their work, but also in soliciting feedback at every step of the process
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical partners, internally and externally
  • Comfortable in ambiguous situations and dynamic environments that run similar to a startup, where you regularly interact with and gather feedback from Senior Leadership
  • Scrappy, have a bias toward action, and love moving fast

Key Skills

  • Product design
  • Systems thinking
  • Information architecture
  • Ecosystem design
  • Interaction design
  • Prototyping
  • Visual design
  • Design systems
  • User research
  • User testing
  • Design critiques
  • Project management
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Cross-functional teamwork
  • Design software (e.g. Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD)
  • UX design principles
  • Agile methodologies
  • Scrum
  • Design thinking
  • User-centered design
  • User experience (UX) design
  • Front-end development (optional)
  • Back-end development (optional)
  • Full-stack development (optional)

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries
  • Ample paid time off as needed
  • 8 pre-scheduled Wellness Days in 2026
  • Remote-first culture
  • Generous parental leave
  • An exceptional team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to do your best
  • Opportunities to connect through affinity, ally, and social groups
  • 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and life

About Khan Academy

Khan Academy India is committed to transforming the educational landscape in India by offering free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Founded in 2006 by visionary educator Sal Khan, Khan Academy has evolved into a global nonprofit organisation that utilises technology to provide personalised learning experiences.

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