Associate Product Designer at Niche in Remote

Summary: Niche is the leader in school search, aiming to simplify the process of researching and enrolling in schools. As an Associate Product Designer, you will collaborate with senior designers to create user flows, interfaces, and prototypes that enhance the user experience for students and partners. Responsibilities: - Evaluate the current state user experience and work cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Engineering to identify UX/UI issues preventing users from getting the most value out of Niche, propose and implement improvements - Support senior designers on larger projects by creating user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes that address clear user and business needs - Assist others with lightweight evaluative/usability research to test solutions, analysis results and apply the findings to your designs - Create clear design specs and collaborate with engineers to support smooth handoff and implementation - Leverage qualitative and quantitative data to understand what’s working/not working, iterate on shipped experiences, and improve performance - Participate in design critiques, team rituals, cross-functional meetings - Support documentation and maintenance of design patterns, in partnership with senior designers and design system contributors Required Qualifications: - At least 1 year of professional experience in a product/UX design role, where you have designed solutions and worked with Engineering to deliver them live to production - All applicants must submit a portfolio of product experiences that showcase user flows, interface design, prototypes, polish and shipping. Please include examples of how you organized your designs and docs, such as Figma file hierarchies, documenting and prioritizing feedback, handoff processes, etc - Great taste and keen eye for craft and quality, sweating the details and using your knowledge of industry patterns and trends to deliver visually appealing solutions with great usability - Familiar with Figma, design systems, and other modern design tools – no prior experience with generative AI is required - Curious and eager to understand user behavior, mental models, and product constraints - Able to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints - Proactively collaborate to overcome challenges, seek assistance to unblock yourself - Comfortable iterating quickly with feedback from users, PMs, engineers, key stakeholders - Resilience and flexibility that helps you adapt to a fast-paced work environment, frequent changes, and considerable ambiguity Preferred Qualifications: - Bonus if you have experience with visual design for digital products, design systems and component libraries, and/or analyzing and interpreting data Required Skills: Product/UX design, Figma Important Skills: User flows, Prototypes, Design systems Nice-to-Have Skills: Visual design, Usability research, Data analysis, Feedback iteration, Collaboration Benefits: Best-in-class 100% paid employee health plan, including vision and dental and supplemental coverage, Flexible Paid Time Off Policy, Stipend that allows you to build your work from home office in a style and function that suits your personal preferences, Parental leave for all employees (12 weeks fully paid) in addition to short term disability for birthing parents, Meaningful 401(k) with employer match