PowerSchool

Vice President, UX Design

PowerSchool

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Texas • United States

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Salary

💰 $205,600 - $287,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Build and Scale a World-Class UX Organization
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of designers, researchers, and content designers
  • Expand and enhance our design system and shared UX patterns so that it scales across teams, products, and emerging interactions driven by AI
  • Foster a culture of craft, curiosity, and accountability—where UX is both creative and outcome-driven
  • Lead the evolution from workflow-driven UX to context-aware, intent-driven experiences powered by AI
  • Establish principles and patterns for Human-in-the-loop design, trust, explainability, and transparency
  • Ensure AI experiences feel assistive, invisible, and empowering, not noisy, overwhelming, or “black box”
  • Balance “Skating to Where the Puck Is Going” with Shipping Now
  • Push the organization toward next-gen interaction models while staying grounded in real customer problems
  • Drive pragmatic progress with shipping improvements that meet users where they are today while laying foundations for tomorrow
  • Raise the bar for usability, design, and emotional resonance across the product suite
  • Partner deeply with customers and practitioners across K-12 to expand and evolve our user research practice
  • Ensure experiences feel natural and intuitive by meeting users where they are today while helping define the future of K-12 software through continuous discovery, testing, and learning
  • Champion clarity over complexity, especially as the platform expands

Requirements

  • Minimum of 15+ years of relevant and related work experience
  • Senior leadership experience in platform or multi-product environments
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience
  • Travel occasionally, up to 20-25%, for key moments such as team summits, training, customer meetings, company events, etc., with increased frequency during peak periods based on business demands
  • Experience managing and leading functional areas or departments
  • Proven track record designing and scaling complex systems with simple, elegant experiences
  • Hands-on experience with AI-driven products or platforms, with strong instincts for where AI meaningfully improves UX
  • Demonstrated success working with multiple stakeholders and thought partners
  • Able to zoom out to ecosystem-level thinking and zoom in to interaction-level detail
  • Deep understanding of how design systems, platforms, and product strategy reinforce each other
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and shaping direction where the answer isn’t obvious yet
  • Leadership Style Collaborative, direct, and opinionated
Benefits
  • Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
  • Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
  • Comprehensive 401(k) plan
  • Generous Parental Leave
  • Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
  • Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
UX designdesign systemsAI-driven productsuser researchinteraction designsystem designproduct strategycontext-aware designHuman-in-the-loop designusability testing
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationcuriosityaccountabilityproblem-solvingadaptabilitystrategic thinkingstakeholder management
Certifications
Bachelor's degree