Staff Product Designer, AI for Higher Education

Cypress HCM; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

The Education team at Cypress HCM is hiring a staff-level product designer to shape how students and educators engage with AI in higher education. You’ll work across core learning experiences and campus-wide tools, balancing safety, learning, and institutional needs with a strong craft bar.

You will partner with product, engineering, research, safety, policy, and design to define durable patterns for a space still being defined, translating emerging ideas into high-fidelity experiences that feel

Qualifications

• Exceptional interaction and visual design craft.
• Experience shaping high-trust educational software.
• Ability to translate complex safety and policy requirements into intuitive user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Establish an exceptionally high standard for craft across higher education experiences.
• Lead end-to-end design for products that help students, faculty, and campus staff use AI safely and productively.
• Design clear, trustworthy experiences for learning, course participation, and campus-wide use.
• Shape zero-to-one higher education experiences spanning colleges and universities, educators, courses, collaboration.
• Turn emerging ideas into concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity product experiences.
• Partner with research, engineering, product, safety, policy, and design to balance user needs and technical capabilities.
• Conduct and apply research with relevant users and partners to understand needs of students, faculty, campus staff, and institutions.
• Develop reusable patterns and principles creating coherence across core learning, course, and campus-wide products.

Job description

The Education team at Cypress HCM is hiring a staff-level product designer to shape how students and educators engage with AI in higher education. You’ll work across core learning experiences and campus-wide tools, balancing safety, learning, and institutional needs with a strong craft bar.

You will partner with product, engineering, research, safety, policy, and design to define durable patterns for a space still being defined, translating emerging ideas into high-fidelity experiences that feel