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Senior Product Designer II

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Hiring Remotely in United States
155K-232K Annually
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
155K-232K Annually
Senior level
Lead a team of senior designers in usability and design excellence across product lifecycles, collaborating with product management and engineering. Mentor designers, uphold usability standards, and contribute to design processes and strategies.
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Articulate is the leading SaaS provider of online training solutions for the new world of work. Our industry-leading software and services make it simple for enterprises and SMBs to develop, deliver, and analyze online training that’s engaging and effective.

As a Sr Product Designer II, you are a strategic, cross-functional leader and usability owner within your product’s tripod. You bring product thinking, sharp design craft, and deep user empathy to your work, helping your team move from discovery to outcomes. You co-lead with your tripod product discovery, shape direction in ambiguous spaces, and ensure we ship learning-focused, trustworthy experiences from early access through general availability.

You are a key voice in your team’s design decisions and a multiplier across the design org. You coach peers, model strong collaboration habits, and contribute to our shared culture of excellence, feedback, and integrity.

What You'll Do

  • Overall Impact
  • Act as the design lead within your tripod, partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering to guide product discovery, usability standards, and customer learning.
  • Take ownership of large, ambiguous problems, and confidently contribute hypotheses and solutions across multiple surfaces to drive clarity and cohesion.
  • Effectively influence direction through design storytelling, research synthesis, and clear product thinking.
  • Anticipate edge cases and usability risks early; drive evidence-led iteration across EA, beta, and GA.
  • Uplevel those around you through mentorship, feedback, and active contributions to team rituals and process improvement.
  • Raise the bar for usability within a product area, contributing new patterns to our design system to empower team-wide efficiency at scale.
  • Usability Ownership
  • Lead usability across your tripod by framing problems, surfacing assumptions, and co-creating solutions informed by data and user insights.
  • Set and uphold the usability bar from early access to GA, ensuring iterative work feels usable, intuitive, valuable, and closely connected to our business strategy.
  • Optimize for speed to value while clearly articulating smart quality tradeoffs and building highly usable experiences through a longer journey of experimentation.
  • Apply deep product knowledge and business context to make strategic design decisions that prioritize user success.
  • Participate  in customer discovery sessions and serve as the expert on customer needs within an area
  • Design Execution
  • Model practices of testing and experimentation that enable fast learning and continuous value delivery into the hands of customers.
  • Deliver detailed design specs with full states and interactions, leveraging and contributing to the design system.
  • Turn complexity into simplicity by designing intuitive flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes.
  • Track design decisions and rationale; share proactively to build shared understanding across teams.
  • Identify, test, and scale new methods, tools, or workflows to improve design and development efficiency across products and teams.
  • Lead Design QA in collaboration with Eng and QA partners, ensuring usability, consistency, and polish are upheld before launch.
  • Collaboration & Tripod Leadership
  • Serve as a trusted partner in your product tripod, owning usability and helping shape roadmap priorities, scope decisions, and product bets.
  • Own the prioritization and scoping of design initiatives that span multiple projects, ensuring alignment and creating visibility where design work is happening.
  • Facilitate alignment across disciplines by making problems visible to peers and leadership, decisions clear, and evidence central to the conversation.
  • Support a culture of inclusive feedback by seeking input from peers and partners early and throughout the process while owning the ultimate usability outcome.
  • Team Citizenship
  • Model high standards of craft, collaboration, and accountability.
  • Mentor mid-level designers, offering guidance on design systems, critique, and career growth. Share product thinking and usability expertise across the broader org, supporting cross-functional growth.
  • Proactively contribute to team rituals for your tripod (crits, QAs, planning) and provide support to your design team peers for a net positive impact. Be a culture carrier, championing inclusivity, curiosity, and feedback in your day-to-day work.

What You Should Have

  • 8–10 years of product design experience, including ownership of end-to-end solutions in modern SaaS environments.
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating design leadership across complex, multi-state flows or systems.
  • High level of expertise in Figma and a solid understanding of responsive design and design systems.
  • Fluency in user-centered design principles, usability heuristics, and rapid prototyping techniques.
  • Experience working in empowered product teams (tripods or trios) and driving outcomes through collaboration.
  • Excellent storytelling and communication skills, bringing others along in your thinking.
  • Self-directed, resilient, and proactive, you seek clarity, raise the bar, and unblock others.
  • Highly accountable and strong prioritization skills
  • Proven track record of influencing organizational design strategies beyond direct product scope.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with hypothesis-driven product development
  • Familiarity with user research tools (e.g., Maze, UserTesting, or analytics platforms)
  • Track record of mentoring or leveling up peers

About us

Articulate Global, LLC, is the leading SaaS provider of creator platforms for online workplace training. Founded by Adam Schwartz in 2002, Articulate provides creator tools and services that make it simple for enterprises and SMBs to develop, deliver, and analyze online workplace training that’s engaging and effective.  Increasingly, organizations must reskill employees for ever-changing remote and hybrid work environments, create learning cultures that attract and retain employees in a tight labor market, and use training to build more equitable, empowering, and engaging workplaces. Articulate helps organizations address these critical business needs with its creator platform for workplace training. Articulate 360—a suite of creator tools for online courses—was named the 7th most-loved product in the world by TrustRadius in 2021. And Rise—an all-in-one online training system that makes online training easy to create, enjoyable to take, and simple to manage—is the first creator platform for SMBs and departments within the enterprise. Articulate has more than 118,000 customers in 170 countries and counts all 100 of the Fortune 100 companies as customers.

Named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces 2022 and a leader in building a human-centered organization, Articulate is guided by a commitment to provide the best value to customers, do right by employees, and create an equitable, empowering workplace for all. As a human-centered organization, we honor people’s humanity knowing that each person’s unique history, vulnerabilities, and social location inform how we show up with one another. We embrace our connectedness, aware that what we do and say impacts others. We give each other grace because we are all works in progress, learning and evolving every day. And we take responsibility for ourselves and are serious about our accountability to each other.  In all we do, we strive to create an equitable, sustainable, and empowering workplace while we drive results for the business and make a positive impact in the world. Read more about our values here. 

Articulate Global, LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All employment decisions at Articulate are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications directly related to the job, without regard to any protected characteristic or class, including, but not limited to, race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. Qualified candidates with criminal histories will be considered for this role in a manner consistent with applicable law. Articulate is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation related to the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]
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