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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

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

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)

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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