Senior Product Designer

About this role

The Organization
What if K-12 education were designed to help all students develop lives of meaning and purpose? Wayfinder, a division of Lemnis, was founded at the Stanford d.school to answer this question. Our goal is to double our impact each year for the coming years. Our vision is to become the preeminent future-readiness curriculum company in the world — leading the global movement of purpose, meaning, and belonging-based education worldwide.
Wayfinder joined the Lemnis Collective as a nonprofit division in 2026. As a public charity, Lemnis is dedicated to the concept of the unlimited learner. Their mission is to create more accessible, flexible, learner-centered systems that help young people navigate the challenges and opportunities of the future. Wayfinder and Lemnis share that vision, especially when it comes to supporting learners in underserved communities and the institutions that serve them.
Wayfinder is the third organization to join the Lemnis Collective. The Collective brings mission-aligned organizations (both for-profit assets and nonprofits with earned revenue) under the Lemnis umbrella through mergers and acquisitions. Lemnis provides long-term, mission-driven investment, stability, freedom from the pressure of constant fundraising, and operational and strategic support, so organizations like Wayfinder can stay focused on our mission, impact, growth, and innovation.
What We Value
You’ll be joining a team of incredibly motivated and dedicated staff members committed to living our organization's values. We work collaboratively across teams, and we feel and act like a purpose-driven organization. To the best of our abilities, each person’s role aligns with their own sense of purpose, which feeds into Wayfinder’s larger sense of purpose.
Read this article about our workplace culture in Conscious Company.
We value equal access, inclusive community, and belonging, and these values are represented in our product, our team, and our school partners.
Product: We develop our learning tools using human-centered design principles. We work with grade-level experts to ensure our curriculum is developmentally appropriate and engaging at all levels. Every Wayfinder lesson is supported by relevant research, prototyped in classrooms, and vetted by teachers over rounds of feedback and iteration. We use Universal Design for Learning principles to give every student an equal opportunity to succeed.
Team: Our team is composed of people from all different backgrounds and walks of life. We intentionally recruit, hire, and work with people of all identities + experiences. We focus on belonging: being connected, accepted, and valued by the people around us.

School Partners: We intentionally target a wide array of educational partners, from traditional to non-traditional, that work with a range of students from different socioeconomic groups. We’ve taught our curriculum in high-need schools in the Bronx, independent schools in Silicon Valley, and after-school programs in San Antonio.

The Role

At Wayfinder, we believe every student deserves to develop belonging, purpose, and future-ready skills. Our web platform is where that happens every day for students, educators, and school communities, and we're looking for a Senior Product Designer to help shape what it becomes next.

You'll own the design of a set of features, from the first conversation with an educator to the final handoff to engineering. That means spending real time with the people who use our product. You'll talk with teachers, school leaders, and Wayfinder staff, watch how they work, and bring what you learn back to the team. Then you'll turn it into experiences that feel simple, thoughtful, and genuinely useful.

This role is for someone who's energized by understanding people's problems, loves collaborating to solve them, and is excited about the ways AI is changing both how we design and what we can build. You'll report to our Principal Product Designer and join a small team where your work has a direct, visible impact.

We strongly encourage people from traditionally underrepresented populations in tech - such as women, People of Color, People with Disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people, etc - to apply!

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design of a set of features, from discovery and research through concepting, prototyping, and handoff.

• Lead research for your features: plan and run interviews, usability studies, and conversations with educators and students, and use product analytics to fill in the picture.

• Get out and talk to people. Build relationships with current partners, listen closely, and bring their needs, frustrations, and ideas into the design process.

• Share what you learn clearly and often, through written summaries, presentations, and prototypes that help the team make good decisions.

• Translate concepts and technical requirements into sketches, user flows, prototypes, and handoff-ready files that balance a great user experience with business goals.

• Design interfaces that are intuitive and accessible to all learners, aligned with our brand guidelines, design system, and patterns.

• Design AI-enabled features that make work easier for educators and learning more meaningful for students, and use AI tools to speed up and strengthen your own design process.

• Work closely with educators, designers, and engineers from discovery to delivery.

• Turn your designs into build-ready specs and tickets so engineering can move quickly and confidently.

• Contribute to the maintenance and growth of our component library.

Requirements

Essential experience

• 5+ years of experience in UI and UX design, with a portfolio of case studies that shows your process as well as your results.

• A track record of leading design research, such as interviews, usability studies, and engagement with partners or customers, and turning findings into clear design decisions.

• Excellent communication skills. You're…