Senior Product Designer - Onboarding & Activation at Scale

Quizlet; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Quizlet’s Senior Product Designer role in San Francisco is a hybrid position. You will own end-to-end design of onboarding, activation, and early learner engagement, shaping how millions of students begin and sustain study habits.

You’ll collaborate with design, product, and engineering to craft data-informed experiences and push the boundaries of AI-assisted learning while maintaining high craft standards and accessibility.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience with end-to-end ownership of complex, multi-feature projects.
• Portfolio showing onboarding, activation, growth, or conversion experiences at consumer scale.
• Strong interaction and visual design craft, plus systems thinking across web and native mobile.
• Comfort with data: define success metrics, read funnels and experiment results.
• Ability to work independently and drive alignment across cross-functional partners.
• Clear communication of design rationale and ability to lead discussions with recommendations.
• Experience giving feedback to elevate peers' work.
• Interest in AI and emerging technologies to enhance learning experiences.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design of large, complex, multi-feature projects across the new-learner journey: sign up, onboarding, personalization, first study session, and early habit loops.
• Take ownership of your projects and deliver independently to a high standard from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Drive measurable impact to activation and early retention metrics.
• Connect onboarding work to the broader product, so first impressions lead naturally into Quizlet’s core learning experiences.
• Hold discussions with clear recommendations, while remaining open to others' ideas when it leads to a better learner outcome.
• Debate trade-offs openly, such as speed to value versus personalization, or conversion versus long-term engagement.
• Facilitate agreement on approach so projects move smoothly into successful implementation.
• Deliver well-crafted solutions to complex problems, evaluating multiple options and trade-offs.
• Use quantitative and qualitative insight (funnel analysis, A/B tests, UX research) to find friction and turn it into opportunities.
• Design and iterate on experiments, then use results to inform the next round of work.
• Apply current industry best practices and emerging technologies, including AI-powered personalization, to raise the bar for the team’s work.
• Continually innovate on how you use AI to your design process, elevating the bar for quality experiences delivered with speed, embracing the application of AI tools as you grow your technical knowledge.

Skills

Product design

End-to-end ownership

Interaction design

Visual design craft

Systems thinking

Data-driven decisions

Independent contributor

Communication

AI in design

Job description

Quizlet’s Senior Product Designer role in San Francisco is a hybrid position. You will own end-to-end design of onboarding, activation, and early learner engagement, shaping how millions of students begin and sustain study habits.

You’ll collaborate with design, product, and engineering to craft data-informed experiences and push the boundaries of AI-assisted learning while maintaining high craft standards and accessibility.