Pluralsight
Staff Experience Designer
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Westlake/Dallas, TX
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $147K - $205K
💻 Product Development
🗓️ October 24th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Pluralsight, LLC is hiring a Staff Experience Designer. This role involves defining and shaping product strategy across Pluralsight's platform, mentoring designers, coaching teams on critical initiatives, conducting design research, and applying strategic methods to develop strong user experience patterns. The designer leads by example, collaborates with cross-functional teams, and fosters a supportive and engaging team culture.
Highlights
- Coach and collaborate with teams on critical initiatives and cross-team collaboration.
- Define, guide, and conduct design research to address key product questions.
- Apply IA (Information Architecture) and OOUX (Object-Oriented UX) techniques to develop platform-level experience patterns and standards.
- Partner with design systems and operations teams to integrate experience architecture with interface patterns and design methods.
- Inspire adoption of new design methods, tools, and emerging platforms.
- Lead design efforts and guide others in delivering an engaging platform experience.
- Require 8+ years of UX design experience or 6+ years with an advanced degree, including experience leading design principals for junior to senior staff.
- Strong systems thinker with expertise in IA and OOUX principles (OOUX certification preferred).
- Demonstrated diplomatic leadership style and ability to use data and storytelling to drive strategic vision.
- Annual base salary range: $147,400 - $204,700 USD with additional benefits including medical coverage, unlimited PTO, wellness reimbursements, and professional development funds.
Staff Experience Designer Full Description
Job Description:
Pluralsight is the technology workforce development company that helps teams build better products by knowing more and working better together. Using our Skills product, teams can develop critical skills, improve processes and gain insights through data.
As a Staff Experience Designer at Pluralsight, you will have the opportunity to define and shape our product strategy across our entire platform. You'll use your deep expertise and knowledge to deliver key business results and mentor other designers to help them grow and develop.
Who you're committed to being:
- You care deeply about your field, practicing with excellence, moving your craft forward, and creating solutions in the most effective way possible
- You have a vision and know how to support and empower individuals and teams to do their best work so they can build products that will change the world
- Your diplomatic leadership style lends itself to working closely with key stakeholders to co-create solutions that deliver real results
- You take accountability for efficiently scaling efforts and working to support initiatives that have the greatest impact
What you'll do:
- Coach and work alongside teams aligned with critical initiatives, and facilitating cross-team collaboration
- Defining, guiding, and conducting design research activities together with product teams to address key product questions
- Applying research findings and insights to generate hypotheses and concepts that drive strategic progress
- Using strategic and architectural methods, such as IA and OOUX techniques, to develop strong platform-level experience patterns and standards
- Partnering closely with our design systems and operations team to integrate experience architecture with our interface patterns and design methods
- Inspiring your teammates to adopt new methods and tools, by anticipating new platforms, media, and techniques and partnering to test and deploy them
- Showing leadership by example and through the practice of design, and guiding others to deliver a delightful experience across our platform
- Celebrating team successes and crafting a team culture that is supportive, engaging, empowering, and fun!
Experience you'll bring:
- You understand and have practiced the breadth and depth of product design skills and can guide others
- You are a strong systems thinker who can define and solve complex problems elegantly, while maintaining an adaptable and pragmatic approach
- You regularly employ IA and OOUX principles and techniques (ideally with a certification in OOUX) to define the right system of relationships and activities
- You have shown a diplomatic and collaborative leadership style, with an approach based on understanding context and building credibility
- You are a trusted authority who knows how to harness the power of data, insights, and storytelling to create a compelling case for a specific vision and path forward
Requirements:
- 8+ years experience in UX Design or 6+ years with and advanced degree
- Experience leading out on Design Principals to junior to senior staff.
- This is a remote role; however, applicants located within 45 miles of our Westlake/Dallas, TX office should expect to work on-site Tuesday through Thursday, with remote flexibility on Mondays and Fridays. This approach enables more effective collaboration, quicker decision-making, and a stronger culture, while still providing flexibility.
Why you'll love working here:
- We're a blended workplace, where team members work remotely or in a hybrid setup depending on their role and location
- We're mission driven and guided by our culture pillars
- We have a strong commitment to diversity and belonging
- We cultivate a culture of trust, autonomy, and collaboration
- We're lifelong learners and champion team member growth and advancement
- We've got you covered - team member benefits include competitive compensation packages, medical coverage, unlimited PTO, wellness reimbursements, Pluralsight subscription, professional development funds and more.
About us:
Pluralsight provides the only learning platform dedicated to accelerating the technology skills and capabilities of today's tech workforce. Thousands of companies, government organizations and individuals around the world rely on Pluralsight to support critical technology skill development in areas that are crucial to innovation including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, and machine learning. Pluralsight provides highly curated content developed by vetted technology experts, industry leading skill assessments, and hands on, immersive learning experiences designed to help individuals skill-up faster.
Physical Requirements:
This role is primarily performed in an office or home office setting and involves standard computer-based work.
EEOC Statement & Accommodations Statement:
Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with EEOC guidelines and local laws.
If you need an accommodation to apply, interview, or perform essential job functions, please visit the bottom of our website to learn how to request an accommodation. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our DEIB Report.
The annual US base salary range for this role is $147,400 - $204,700 USD. Actual compensation will depend on location, skills, experience, and other factors. Additional benefits and bonuses may apply.
Applications must be submitted within 90 days after the initial posting date to be considered.
Recruiting Scam Notice:
Please be aware of recruiting scams. We'll only contact you from an @pluralsight.com email or verified channels. We never ask for sensitive personal info or payments as part of the hiring process. All openings are posted on our Careers page.
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