Senior Product Designer (Contract-to-Hire)

At Lightspeed Systems, we are on a mission to help schools provide safe, secure, and equitable learning—effortlessly. As a research and Insights driven Senior Product Designer on our team, you’ll craft delightful and powerful experiences for educators and school district IT teams--from early-stage research and ideation workshops to user testing and performance metrics. 

ABOUT THE ROLE 

In this role, you’ll work with a cross-functional team to design enterprise-class B2B solutions used to protect millions of students around the globe. You’ll drive the full design process for your product team. Working lean, but smart, the team will move from assumptions to hypotheses to validation. Equipped with qualitative and quantitative research, you'll champion the story of how a stronger user experience is achieving business goals. 

ABOUT YOU

• Are flexible, adaptable and agile, an agent of change. 
• You enjoy thinking in systems, journeys and state machines. 
• Are self-directed and self-starting enough to prosper with high-level direction and minimal documentation. 
• Are influential in bringing about change or progress within the product team or company. 
• Have excellent collaboration skills and the willingness to always strive for the best outcomes. 
• Have the chops to lead cross-team design workshops or sprints. 
• Develop and maintain an understanding of customers, users, stakeholders, their pain points and workflows. 
• Comfortable with feedback and adapt quickly to changing information.  

Need to have 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree. 
• 4+ years of hands-on product experience, designing complex or enterprise-level software. 
• Demonstrated experience with designing within an agile and/or lean environment. 
• Understanding of software development life cycle and processes. 

Nice to have 

• Education industry background  
• B2B Product experience 

ABOUT US

For over 20 years, Lightspeed Systems® has been a leader in the ever-changing landscape of K-12 learning technology.  Lightspeed Systems works with tens of thousands of schools to maximize the safety, mobility, and effectiveness of their students’ learning experience.  Every device can be covered with the most effective web filter, student safety monitor, classroom management software, device management tool, and analytics program available.  Learn more at www.lightspeedsystems.com.

ABOUT OUR ATX HQ

If “work from where it makes sense” includes being onsite for you some or all the time, you will LOVE being at the ranch. Our uniquely Lightspeed (and totally Texas) corporate headquarters has everything Lightspeeders need to get the job done – and a whole lot more.

• 15,000 sq. ft. of open work area, offices, and huddle rooms
• A private chef serving up lunch Tuesday through Thursday every week
• A state-of-the-art fitness center (with outfitted locker rooms)
• Indoor and outdoor casual collaboration spots
• Pet-friendly office environment
• A golf simulator, go-carts, shuffleboard, corn hole, and MORE fun

All within 31 sprawling acres of Live Oak trees that foster a natural habitat for local wildlife. It is not uncommon to be greeted daily by whitetail deer. (Maybe it wants to join your meeting?)