Senior User Experience Designer

Savvas Learning Company; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Savvas Learning Company seeks a Senior UX Designer to lead strategic UX initiatives across our K–12 educational technology platforms. You will mentor designers, shape AI-enhanced workflows, and ensure consistent design system governance across products.

Applicants bring 6+ years of end-to-end UX/Product design experience, a strong portfolio, and expertise with Figma and accessibility standards (WCAG). This is a full-time role focused on delivering human-centered, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of end-to-end UX/Product Design experience across complex initiatives.
• Strong portfolio showing enterprise problem solving with scalable design systems.
• Experience shipping AI-enabled features in digital products.
• Expertise with design tooling and governance (Figma, tokens).

Responsibilities

• Define UX strategy for core initiatives across a multi-product ecosystem.
• Advocate for human-centered design and mentor teams.
• Design AI-powered features with transparent UX and explainability.
• Govern and scale the design system for consistency across platforms.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data Science on roadmaps.
• Coach junior designers and raise design quality.

Skills

UX design

Product design

Design systems

AI feature design

Accessibility

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Mentorship

Interaction design

Visual design

Tools

Figma

Job description

About the Role

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.

What You Bring

• 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.