Staff UX Designer, PowerSchool

• 5+ years’ experience designing web apps or software
• A portfolio of work that demonstrates a strong understanding of UX and visual design
• Proficiency in working with remote colleagues and communicating across Pacific, Central, and Eastern time zones
• Experience using Figma
• Experience building and expanding design systems both in general and in Figma

Desirable

• The Enterprise Resource Planning team at PowerSchool is a tight-knit group of designers, product managers, and engineers building world-class software that helps school finance teams make the most of their funding to improve student outcomes
• We’re a smart, friendly, and goofy team that cares about making software that looks good and feels good to use
• You’ll be a crucial part of product design and ideation and use your expertise in visual design and user experience to make our product something people love to use
• This is not just a UX design position, you will be expected to have a strong visual design sense
• Designing the UI and honing the UX of a core pillar of PowerSchool's Allovue and talent software platforms
• Focused design tasks structured around quarterly product feature goals
• Owning and expanding our design system
• Creating and iterating on product designs in Figma
• Collaborating with our design team, product managers, and engineers to find the best solutions to tricky problems and constraints
• Having a direct hand in shaping product design around those constraints; You will have a direct effect on what form requested features take as they make it into the product
• Reviewing Pull Requests for design consistency and accuracy before they are merged
• Proactively asking for assistance and critique