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This is a hands-on functional leadership role accountable for coherent, accessible experiences across the product portfolio, personally delivering complex and consequential design work.\nThe Principal directs UX design practice through standards, judgment, implementation follow-through, and cross-functional partnership, while the UX Design Lead independently owns assigned experiences. The Principal does not require a separate design management layer or routine approvals. Product Managers retain product priorities, requirements, acceptance, and outcomes.\nKey Responsibilities\n1. Experience Architecture & Standards\nDefine coherent navigation, information architecture, interaction patterns, and experience principles across student, educator, administrator, and applicable family workflows.\nPersonally design and resolve complex or consequential cross-product experiences using working prototypes and explicit decisions.\nMake recurring UX debt visible and recommend evidence-based improvements to accountable Product leaders.\n2. Design System & Accessibility\nOwn governance, documentation, versioning, and evolution of shared components, patterns, UX writing conventions, and accessible interaction standards.\nCollaborate with the UX Design Lead on reusable patterns while keeping routine experience decisions close to assigned work.\nWork with Engineering and QA to verify material accessibility and experience expectations in production.\n3. Research, Validation & Implementation\nSet lean, risk-proportionate research and usability standards; personally execute consequential validation and interpret user evidence.\nDeliver complete implementation-ready specifications for owned work, including critical states, behaviors, accessibility, and edge cases.\nResolve systemic implementation-fidelity gaps and ensure relevant post-release signals inform improvements.\n4. Functional Leadership, AI & Capacity\nPartner with Product leadership to sequence design demand, make capacity tradeoffs visible, and preserve clear product decision rights.\nEstablish approved AI-supported methods for prototypes, research synthesis, documentation, and design checks, with human verification.\nWork directly with PMs, Engineering, Academic, Creative Studio, and customer-facing functions without introducing unnecessary review gates.\nSkills, Knowledge and Expertise\nRequired\n7+ years in product or UX design, or equivalent demonstrated capability, including complex production workflows.\nExpertise in interaction design, information architecture, research, design systems, accessibility, and prototyping.\nProven ability to lead through hands-on judgment, clear standards, and cross-functional influence.\nAbility to make defensible tradeoffs and independently deliver complex experience work.\nPractical fluency with Figma or equivalent production design tools.\nExperience using measured usability and product outcomes to guide design priorities.\nResponsible use and validation of AI-enabled design workflows.\nPreferred\nK-12 EdTech, learning-platform, assessment, reporting, or complex SaaS experience.\nExperience modernizing legacy platforms and designing for multilingual or varied-accessibility users.\n Definition of Success\nPortfolio experiences become more coherent, accessible, and effective; complex design work moves through implementation reliably; a reusable design system and practical evidence reduce UX rework.\nBenefits\nSummit K12 offers a comprehensive benefits package. Highlights include:\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance with multiple plan options\nCompany-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance\n401(k) retirement plan\nPaid Time Off (PTO) program\n10 paid holidays plus 1 floating holiday annually\nWellness resources and support programs\nSummit K12 is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. 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