Senior Product Designer

ParentSquare is a rapidly growing Santa Barbara-based company that’s changing the way schools and parents communicate every day. Sound simple? We strive to keep it that way! Our mission is to give schools the power to incredibly enhance family engagement for all students. ParentSquare and RemindHub, our flagship products, serve over 22 million students and drive our mission by providing unified communications tools -forms, sign ups, payments, RSVPs, direct messaging, language translations, chat and more. Remind Chat, our free product, reaches over 80% of K-12 students, providing a safe and easy-to-use platform for direct communication between teachers and families. And our latest innovation, SmartSites, offers state-of-the-art websites for school districts, enhancing their online presence and accessibility.

We are not just creating a product; we are creating empowered educators and engaged parents to improve the lives of all students. We are passionate advocates for our customers and for our employees and we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

Who we’re looking for:

ParentSquare is seeking a Senior Product Designer to own the end-to-end experience for a major area of our platform, used by families and educators in districts across the country. You'll take problems from discovery through shipped product, partnering with Product and Engineering as an equal voice in what gets built. You'll work closely with our new UX Research and Design Systems practices, use AI tools to explore and prototype faster, and help raise the craft bar by mentoring other designers. This is a new role on a cross-functional product team.

Most importantly, you’re someone who shares in our passion for improving the lives of students through communication.

Reports to: Vice President, Product Design

This role will include:

• Owning end-to-end design for a product area, from problem framing and discovery through shipped experience
• Defining the problem before exploring solutions, and pushing back when a request is a solution looking for a problem
• Turning complex workflows like district-wide messaging, forms, payments, and permissions into experiences that feel simple, even for users who scan, skip, and make mistakes
• Partnering with UX Research, Customer Success, and Support to understand real usage, run usability tests, and make decisions from what you learn
• Designing accessible, translation-ready experiences for families across languages (including right-to-left), abilities, devices, and comfort with technology
• Building on and contributing to the design system, delivering production-ready work that covers states, edge cases, and responsive and native behavior
• Using AI tools to prototype faster, and designing AI-powered features that users can understand, review, control, and correct
• Presenting and defending design decisions in Design Crit and with stakeholders, then partnering with engineers through implementation and review
• Mentoring other designers and helping raise the craft bar across the team

Our ideal candidate will have the following:

• 5+ years of product design experience, with shipped work on complex web and native mobile (iOS and Android) products
• A portfolio with 2 to 3 in-depth case studies showing how you framed the problem, made decisions, and measured results
• Strong interaction design, information architecture, and visual design craft, with fluency in Figma, prototyping, and design systems
• Experience running usability tests and using research and analytics to inform design
• Hands-on experience using AI tools in your design workflow, such as Claude, Cursor, or Figma Make
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA) and how to design for them
• Clear communication and the ability to influence PMs, engineers, and leadership

Bonus points for:

• Experience in EdTech, K-12, or products where the buyer and the end user are different people
• Experience designing for multilingual or low-literacy users
• Experience designing AI-powered features, including how users review, control, and correct AI output
• Experience prototyping in code (React or HTML and CSS) with AI coding tools like Cursor or Claude Code

The perks of working for us are great!

You’ll get your foot in the door as our company continues to grow. We’re big believers in work-life balance and provide:

• Employer-paid health insurance (including dependent coverage)
• An employer-matched 401K retirement savings program from day 1
• Paid Parental Leave
• Stock options
• Health + wellness reimbursements
• PTO that increases each year
• 15 paid holidays, including your birthday!

As a fully remote team, we’ll make sure you have all the tools and equipment you need to make your home office a place where you can thrive.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in compliance with applicable state laws.

The salary range for this role will be $120,000 - $150,000, DOE.