Senior User Experience Designer

Savvas Learning Company LLC
Northbrook, IL, United States
26 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
6 years minimum
Compensation
$92,000.0 - $115,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Data Visualization Design of User Interfaces Interaction Design Modular Design Software Product Management Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Application Enhancement Tool Deep Learning Figma

Job description

We are seeking a strategic, highly collaborative, and visionary Senior UX Designer for a full-time position on the Savvas UX Design team. In this role, you will lead the resolution of our most complex and ambiguous design challenges across our K-12 educational technology platforms. You will bring deep expertise in user-centered methodologies, large-scale user experience strategy, advanced visual design, and robust design systems, while mentoring team members and establishing high-quality design standards.

The UX Design team is responsible for our design system and platform functionality, covering assignments, assessments, data visualizations, reporting dashboards, administrative and operations workflows, and AI-powered teaching and learning experiences across our K-12 educational products.

What You’ll Do

  • End-to-End Strategic Design: Lead and define the UX strategy and execution for high-impact, foundational product initiatives, scaling methodologies across our multi-product ecosystem as needs evolve.
  • User-Centered Advocacy & Leadership: Champion an unyielding human-centric approach across the organization. Mentor others in user advocacy, ensuring all high-level product decisions are deeply rooted in real user needs, validated usability principles, and systematic feedback loops.
  • Advanced AI Feature Design: Architect intuitive, trust-building experiences for complex AI-driven capabilities. Define standard patterns ensuring AI outputs, limits, and insights are completely transparent, explainable, and contextually integrated into the user’s natural workflow.
  • Design System Evolution: Thoughtfully govern, scale, and contribute to our design system to guarantee absolute visual and interaction consistency across all platforms and products.
  • Strategic Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner as a peer with leadership across Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams to influence strategic roadmaps, negotiate technical feasibility, and drive the delivery of exceptional solutions.
  • Mentorship & Design Culture: Actively coach and mentor mid-level and junior designers, raising the bar for craftsmanship, critical thinking, and design excellence across the team.

Requirements

  • Experience: 6+ years of end-to-end UX/Product Design experience leading complex initiatives across the full product development lifecycle.
  • Portfolio: A strong portfolio demonstrating a proven track record of breaking down highly complex, ambiguous enterprise problems into elegant, concrete, and scalable design systems and solutions.
  • AI Product Mastery: Deep practical experience designing and shipping successful features that leverage advanced machine learning or AI capabilities within digital products.
  • AI-Enhanced Workflow: Sophisticated mastery of incorporating AI-powered tools into your regular design workflow to significantly amplify exploration efficiency, asset creation, and productivity.
  • Design System Governance: Expert proficiency with modern design tooling (Figma), including building, maintaining, and scaling component libraries, advanced variants, and design tokens.
  • Interaction & Advanced Accessibility: Authoritative understanding of global accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2), deep interaction design theory, complex responsive architecture, and complex information taxonomy.
  • Visual Craftsmanship: Flawless visual and interface design skills with meticulous attention to typography, data-dense layouts, micro-interactions, and visual hierarchy.
  • Domain Expertise: Prior experience in EdTech, enterprise SaaS, or highly data-rich platforms serving multi-tiered institutional, administrative, or operational users.

Benefits & conditions

At Savvas, compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. We invest in our employees with a rewards package that combines compensation, exceptional benefits and wellness programs in addition to opportunities for professional growth. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation. The posted hiring range reflects our good faith estimate at the time of posting and remains subject to modification. Compensation is determined by factors such as but not limited to skills, experience, budget, and internal equity.

Hiring Range: $92,000 - $115,000

Starting on Day One we are committed to the health, well-being, and development of our employees. As a Savvas employee, you are eligible to participate in benefits that put you first. Our benefits include a wide range of offerings including but not limited to the following:

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Time to Recharge: Vacation time and 10 paid holidays.
  • Time to Recover: Sick time and leave programs.
  • Financial Wellness: Employees can start securing their financial future without any delay with a 401(k) match and immediate vesting.
  • Wellness Programs: We recognize the importance of emotional and mental well-being, both in our work environment and in our personal lives. We are committed to providing resources and support to promote overall well-being and a healthy work-life balance.
  • Extra Perks: Discounted gym memberships, pet insurance, tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, volunteer opportunities, and much more!

About the company

Savvas Learning Company is a global education company that produces award-winning learning solutions that empower educators and engage students with the highest quality content. Recognized as an industry leader, we serve millions of K-12 learners with innovative, student-centered educational programs that turn today’s classrooms into active learning environments. By embracing technology, personalized learning, and immersive experiences delivered across multiple platforms, we design our learning solutions to be more accessible and relevant to each student. Our award-winning, high-quality instructional materials span every grade level and discipline, from evidence-based, standards-aligned core curricula and supplemental and intervention programs to state-of-the-art assessment tools and the industry’s most innovative portfolio of college and career readiness solutions - all designed to meet the needs of every learner., Savvas Learning Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Savvas Learning complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. Savvas prohibits discrimination against individuals based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, and other protected group status. We strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant. Savvas Learning Company is an affirmative action employer and participates in E-Verify. Know Your Rights

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