Product Designer, Impact Portfolio

Overview:

Product Designer, Impact Portfolio

Founded in 1997, Think Together partners with schools to change the odds for kids by providing award-winning programs during and outside the school day. We’re one of California’s largest nonprofits working in school districts from San Diego to San Francisco. Whether you’re interested in early learning, elementary, middle or high school, you can invest in your community by working at a local school or working within our home office providing support!

JOB SUMMARY:

Think Together is a California nonprofit that partners with schools to change the odds for kids. Founded in 1997, Think Together operates the greatest number of expanded learning programs across California, serving ~100K students, and is home to a suite of additional programs that aim to drive systemic change across California’s public-school systems.

In 2024, Think Together completed a 5-year impact strategic plan that identifies a set of conditions for equity driven school systems required to achieve the organization’s vision. Think Together is leveraging its expanded learning core business to build a flywheel powered by innovation and technology. Initiatives in Think’s Impact Portfolio will enable the organization to test, learn and demonstrate what it takes to build the conditions of equity-driven school systems at scale.

We’re looking for a UI/UX Product Designer with a strong product mindset and user interface design skills to join our first product squad building AI-powered tools for education.

This is a hands-on role ideal for a designer who thrives in cross-functional environments. You’ll collaborate deeply with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders across the product lifecycle—from user research and discovery to design system development and high-fidelity UI delivery. You won’t just make things look good—you’ll help define what we build and why, grounding all decisions in user insight and product outcomes.

You should be highly functional in both UX and UI, able to balance clarity, usability, and modern interface craft. If you can bring structure to ambiguity, test ideas quickly, and advocate for accessible, intuitive experiences, we want to hear from you.

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ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:**

• Apply strong interaction and visual design principles to develop intuitive user experiences
• Contribute to and evolve our design system, ensuring consistency and cohesion across products
• Partner closely with product managers and engineers throughout discovery, definition, and delivery phases
• Lead and participate in user research activities to understand pain points and identify opportunities
• Create journey maps, user flows, low-fidelity wireframes, and high-fidelity UI designs and prototypes
• Validate design solutions through user testing, stakeholder feedback, and iteration
• Advocate for accessibility and inclusive design for a wide range of users (students, families, educators, administrators)
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure design quality and feasibility through to launch
• Effectively present and communicate design decisions across the team and organization
• Bring a curious, growth-oriented mindset to a fast-moving, impact-driven environment

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in design, HCI, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience designing digital products in a collaborative, cross-functional setting
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates user-centered thinking, UI/UX design skill, and strategic impact
• Fluency with Figma (preferred), Sketch, or similar tools, including component and prototyping workflows
• Experience designing for responsive web and/or mobile apps with modern UX patterns
• Strong understanding of product discovery, agile workflows, and iterative design
• Experience planning and conducting usability tests or gathering user feedback
• Comfortable working with engineers and balancing technical constraints with user and business needs
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate design thinking to diverse audiences
• Commitment to equity, access, and designing products that make a difference for all learners

BACKGROUND CHECK REQUIREMENTS:

• Must pass Live Scan (Criminal Background Check via fingerprinting).
• Provide and maintain a clear TB test throughout employment.

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COMPENSATION:**

• Salary $175,000

This is the targeted compensation for the position. A range of factors, including but not limited to; location, skills, experience, will be considered. Actual compensation may vary.

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Think Together is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, religious creed, physical disability, mental disability, age for individuals age 40 and over, medical condition (as defined by state law (for example, cancer or genetic characteristics or HIV/AIDS), marital status, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment._