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PowerSchool Group LLC is hiring a Vice President, UX Design. The role involves leading and scaling a UX design organization, driving the evolution of AI-powered user experiences, and delivering user-centered design solutions that resonate with educational customers across the K-12 ecosystem.

Highlights

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing UX team including designers, researchers, and content designers.
Develop and expand design systems and shared UX patterns that support AI-driven interactions across products.
Design context-aware, intent-driven experiences emphasizing trust, transparency, and assistive AI features.
Balance innovation with pragmatic delivery, advancing next-generation interaction models while addressing current user needs.
Partner with K-12 customers to ground design in real-world workflows through continuous research and user testing.
Minimum 15 years of related experience with senior leadership in platform or multi-product environments required.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; proven ability to design and scale complex systems with elegant user experiences.
Hands-on experience with AI-driven products and strong strategic thinking across design systems, platforms, and product strategy.
Compensation range estimated between $205,600 and $287,000 USD with comprehensive benefits including insurance, PTO, 401(k), and tuition reimbursement.
Collaborative and direct leadership style with excellent communication, balancing high standards with empathy and pragmatism.

Vice President, UX Design Full Description

Overview:

At PowerSchool, we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible, and a career with us means you’re joining a successful team committed to engaging, empowering, and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere.

Team Overview

Our Product team leads the direction, coordination, output, quality, and enhancements to PowerSchool’s product portfolio. This dynamic, multi-functional team ensures the effective rollout of new products across the platform, packages and positions products to appeal to consumers, and helps set the future direction and pace of innovation in our organization.

Responsibilities:

The UX Design team is responsible for researching, designing, and implementing all user experiences and interactions with our products and tools.

Your day-to-day job will consist of:

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
Design for Contextual AI
- 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
- Progressive automation that earns user confidence
- 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 (adaptive interfaces, ambient intelligence, new design paradigms) while staying grounded in real customer problems.
- Know when to invent and when to simplify.
- Drive pragmatic progress with shipping improvements that meet users where they are today while laying foundations for tomorrow.
Deliver Consumer-Grade Experiences at Enterprise Scale
- 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—grounding design decisions in real-world contexts and workflows.
- 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.
- Translate customer insight into forward-looking design principles that shape next-generation experiences across the platform.
- Champion clarity over complexity, especially as the platform expands.
- Ensure our experiences feel modern, fast, and intuitive without sacrificing power or flexibility.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

Experience and Expertise

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.
This position is subject to company on call policies which constitutes working hours outside of the normal workday as needed.
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.

Strategic and Systems Thinking

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.
Inspires trust across Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams.
Balances high standards with empathy and pragmatism.
Excellent communication skills both with executive leadership and with individual contributor teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Mindset

Obsessed with users and grounded in business reality.
Energized by disruption.
Believes UX is never “done,” only continually refined as context changes.

Compensation & Benefits:
PowerSchool offers the following 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

A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $205,600 - $287,000 USD. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.

EEO Commitment:

PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing accomodations@powerschool.com.

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Original Job Description

Overview:

Team Overview

The UX Design team is responsible for researching, designing, and implementing all user experiences and interactions with our products and tools.

Your day-to-day job will consist of:

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
Design for Contextual AI
- 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
- Progressive automation that earns user confidence
- 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 (adaptive interfaces, ambient intelligence, new design paradigms) while staying grounded in real customer problems.
- Know when to invent and when to simplify.
- Drive pragmatic progress with shipping improvements that meet users where they are today while laying foundations for tomorrow.
Deliver Consumer-Grade Experiences at Enterprise Scale
- 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—grounding design decisions in real-world contexts and workflows.
- 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.
- Translate customer insight into forward-looking design principles that shape next-generation experiences across the platform.
- Champion clarity over complexity, especially as the platform expands.
- Ensure our experiences feel modern, fast, and intuitive without sacrificing power or flexibility.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

Experience and Expertise

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.
This position is subject to company on call policies which constitutes working hours outside of the normal workday as needed.
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.

Strategic and Systems Thinking

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.
Inspires trust across Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams.
Balances high standards with empathy and pragmatism.
Excellent communication skills both with executive leadership and with individual contributor teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Mindset

Obsessed with users and grounded in business reality.
Energized by disruption.
Believes UX is never “done,” only continually refined as context changes.

Compensation & Benefits:
PowerSchool offers the following 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

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