About Panorama:
Panorama Education is a fast-growing technology company focused on helping students achieve academic success and well-being. More than 2,000 K-12 school districts serving 15 million students across all 50 states have adopted Panorama to understand and support students across academics, attendance, behavior, and life skills development. School districts turn to Panorama's student support platform, research-backed surveys, and professional development to track progress toward strategic goals and improve student outcomes.
Panoramians can choose to work fully remote anywhere within the Continental United States.
About the role:
As a Lead Product Designer, you’ll play a key role in transforming Panorama’s Student Success product to be more aligned with district priorities, ensuring that educators can easily connect their strategic goals with Panorama’s tools. By surfacing the most relevant insights and action steps, you’ll help educators make more informed decisions and take meaningful action for students.
Additionally, this role will contribute to integrating AI into educator workflows, exploring ways to make data-driven decision-making more intuitive, efficient, and effective. Your work will directly shape how educators interact with Panorama’s platform to drive student success.
Responsibilities:
- Evolve the Student Success product: Lead design efforts to create an experience that helps districts connect their strategic goals with Panorama’s data and insights, ensuring educators see immediate value in our platform.
- Shape AI-Enhanced workflows: Explore and design ways to incorporate AI into educator workflows, making data-driven decision-making more efficient and impactful.
- Lead discovery & research: Partner with product managers to conduct user interviews, run usability tests, and synthesize insights to inform design decisions.
- Own the end-to-end process: Lead design from concept to launch—creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs—while continuously iterating based on feedback and data.
- Collaborate & communicate: Present design concepts and strategies to stakeholders, clearly articulating trade-offs and rationale while being open to constructive feedback.
- Mentor & inspire: Support and coach other designers by sharing best practices, giving thoughtful feedback, and helping the team grow its skills and impact.
- Stay user-centered: Deepen your understanding of the K–12 education space, building empathy for teachers, counselors, principals, and district leaders to better serve their needs.
Our ideal candidate has:
- 6+ years of experience in product design, crafting intuitive and impactful digital products or applications, preferably in a SaaS environment.
- A strong portfolio that showcases expertise in user-centric design, complex user flows, and high-quality, well-crafted visual design, demonstrating attention to detail in layout, typography, hierarchy, and aesthetics.
- Experience designing data visualizations—you know how to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights for users.
- A systems thinker mentality—you understand how to design scalable solutions that align across multiple product areas.
- Experience leading complex projects, from discovery to delivery, within a cross-functional team environment.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to clearly explain design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A passion for education equity and the role data can play in improving student outcomes.
Salary: The starting base salary for this role is $152,200. Final salary offers will be determined based on experience, skills, and geographic location.
About the Design Team
Great design is central to Panorama Education's product and mission. We want our product to both delight teachers and educators across the country and to help them drive action to improve outcomes for their students. At Panorama, you will be working side-by-side with folks from many backgrounds and experiences: engineers, former teachers, product managers, education researchers, client account managers, and more. We believe diversity of experiences lead to better product design and outcomes for the students we serve.
The “Starting Base Salary” represents anticipated salary for this position across all US locations. The determination of this anticipated Base Salary involves the consideration of many factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: unique skill sets, experience, training, performance, licensure and certifications, as well as other business and organizational needs. Our anticipated Base Salary determination is just one component of Panorama’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual bonus or commission awards, equity awards, as well as other region-specific health and welfare benefits
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