Director of Product Design

About the Role

Art of Problem Solving seeks a hands-on Director of Product Design to lead the end-to-end user experience, unifying discovery, enrollment, and learning. You will translate the brand identity into product experiences and shape how families discover AoPS and how students progress through the curriculum. This role combines strategic design leadership with hands-on mentorship to elevate the quality and cohesion of our products.

What You'll Do

• Set and drive the design vision for a cohesive end-to-end experience across discovery, enrollment, and learning.

• Translate AoPS's evolving brand identity into product experiences that are reflected in how our products feel and support learning.

• Shape how Product, Design, and Engineering work together, evolving team workflows and adopting modern tools to improve speed, quality, and collaboration.

• Partner closely with Academics teams to ensure pedagogy informs the design of learning experiences.

• Establish and scale design systems, standards, and practices that enable consistency, quality, and velocity across teams.

• Lead with a hands-on, player-coach approach, providing critique, mentorship, design workshops, and exploration of new tools.

• What We're Looking For

• Experience leading product design across discovery, enrollment, and learning within a cohesive end-to-end system.

• Ability to translate brand identity into product experiences.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering teams.

• Experience building and scaling design systems and establishing standards.

• Ability to work with Academics teams to align pedagogy with design.

• Hands-on leadership style with mentorship, critique, and ability to facilitate design workshops.

• Experience adopting modern tools and AI in design workflows.

• Excellent communication and storytelling to inform product decisions.