Staff Product Designer, Education

Learning Commons; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Paid time off

Family-forming benefits

Relocation support

Job summary

Learning Commons in San Francisco, CA is building AI infrastructure to connect learning with the tools students use. The Staff Product Designer role focuses on developer experience end to end and shaping onboarding, dataset catalog, and interactive experiences for trial before commitment.

You will define what good looks like for developers, lead design across platform surfaces, expand the dataset catalog, and mentor designers while collaborating with engineers to ship fast using AI-native

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of professional design experience.
• Strong visual craft paired with product thinking and brand expression.
• Experience looping design systems into daily work with cross-functional teams.
• Strategic product ownership across a platform in production.

Responsibilities

• Own developer experience end to end and translate insights into a roadmap.
• Design developer integration views from zero and define success metrics.
• Lead cross-team design work to make the platform feel like one product.
• Extend the dataset catalog and access experiences with new features.
• Set and raise the craft bar by mentoring designers and reviewing work.

Skills

8+ years

Visual design

Product thinking

Design systems

Product ownership

Technical depth

AI-native workflows

Job description

Learning Commons is building AI infrastructure that helps connect how students learn with the tools they use. The team pairs technology with grantmaking to scale proven teaching and learning practices, with a focus on translating learning science into classroom practice.

In this Staff Product Design role, you own developer experience end to end. You set the direction for developer integration flows, onboarding, the dataset catalog, and interactive experiences that help people try products before committing. The intersection is intentionally rare: philanthropic funding means the work optimizes for developer and educator outcomes rather than conversion metrics, and the audience is technical.

What you’ll do

• Own developer experience end to end, building and maintaining a point of view on what drives sustained use. You will use research, usage data, and direct partner contact to turn insights into a roadmap the organization aligns behind.
• Design developer integration views from zero. Define what “good” looks like for developers by establishing visibility into integration performance, including usage, quality, errors, and impact. There is no prior art internally, so you set the foundation.
• Make the platform feel like one product by leading systematic design work across platform, catalog, docs, and marketing surfaces. You will establish patterns and information architecture rather than applying existing ones.
• Extend the dataset catalog and access experience on top of what’s already shipped, including new features, richer discovery, and the permission and organization models that support access.
• Set and raise the craft bar by partnering closely with the design systems lead. You will mentor designers across the team and serve as a reviewer others seek out.

What you bring

• At least 8 years of professional experience.
• Visual craft paired with product thinking. You set the quality bar for the team, with strength in visual and interaction design and a desire to bring brand expression into the product.
• Looping design systems into daily work. Recommendations land in the system rather than remaining one-off. You partner with the systems designer to get patterns adopted.
• Strategic product ownership across an entire product or platform in production. You frame ambiguous problems, make explicit value and risk tradeoffs, and align others even without a fully specified brief.
• Systems instincts and technical depth. Permissions, organization models, and multi-surface navigation are compelling. You can read an API reference, discuss feasibility with engineers, and design within real constraints.
• Comfort with new ways of working. You use AI-native methods to ship fast and learn, prototyping in code and validating early rather than following a strictly linear workflow.

Benefits

• Generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions.
• Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice.
• Funding for select family-forming benefits.
• Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving.

Compensation and location

Location: San Francisco, CA (hybrid), onsite at least 60% of the working month, approximately 3 days a week. Specific in-office days are determined by the team’s manager.

Base pay range: USD $170,000 - $235,400 per year. New hires are typically hired in the lower portion of the range, with growth over time. Placement is based on job-related skills and experience evaluated throughout the interview process.

This position may be eligible for a discretionary annual performance bonus program, with eligibility and targets determined according to the company’s total rewards philosophy.

The opportunity, grounded in the product

Learning Commons provides a Knowledge Graph of academic standards and learning components, Evaluators for measuring model quality in educational contexts, and Agent Skills that partners like Canva, Diffit, and Playlab build on.

As Staff Product Designer, Education, you improve developer experience from interest to integration, strengthen onboarding, evolve the dataset catalog, determine what developers need to see about their own integrations, and expand interactive experiences that let people try products before they commit.

Better together

This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, CA, requiring you to be onsite for at least 60% of the working month (approximately 3 days per week), with specific in-office days set by the team’s manager.