Guild is hiring a Senior Experience Designer to help craft and define our product experience, used by millions of Americans to head back to school. You’ll approach design as an experiment to learn as quickly as possible and will work on meaningful products that facilitate an effortless experience for our users. You’ll be great for this role if you have a passion for seamless experiences that span a multi-faceted business with diverse user journeys and needs.

As a Senior Experience Designer, you will:

• Conceptualize and design prototypes, user test, iterate, and work with the greater team to deploy simple, elegant, and purposeful experiences
• Own and take responsibility for your work from ideation to deployment
• Work closely with the engineering team to ensure execution is what is imagined and expected
• Work with more junior designers to continue pushing our craft forward
• Create data informed designs using our suite of user research tools and analytics
• Bring ideas, collaborate, and contribute to high-level strategic decisions with other designers, product managers, and engineers
• Work within and expand our evolving design language system that exports to over 5+ products that touches millions of student lives and Fortune 50 enterprise partners
• Lead design thinking activities cross-functionally to absorb knowledge and needed information from stakeholders
• Communicate, participate, and prepare for design walkthroughs, critiques, and reviews in order to continually raise our bar for quality
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity changing needs
• Lead and contribute to product strategy and roadmaps through customer research and design explorations
• Bring your full self to our growing team and help define our culture and values 

In addition to working on Experience Design, in this role you will collaborate with other Guild leaders including: Jess Rusin (SVP Engineering), Josh Scott (President), Dan Fineman (Senior Director, Product), Chandler Koglmeier (VP, Product and GM, Marketplace Expansion).

You are a strong fit for this role if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in an individual contributor design role on a design team for web or native applications
• Worked with a variety of stakeholders and can confidently present and share your work
• Owned product design end-to-end for multiple successful products at scale
• Case studies featuring examples of one’s business impact from design work
• Thrive in a fast-paced, high-energy environment, with an entrepreneurial ownership mentality
• Care deeply about technical, scalable, and user-centric models of design
• Experience partnering with product managers
• Bonus: Experience designing both consumer and enterprise applications

About Guild:

Guild is increasing economic mobility for working adults by partnering with the largest employers in the country to offer education as a benefit to their employees via our marketplace of nonprofit universities and education institutions. Guild’s proprietary technology platform facilitates the administration of this innovative benefit and our team of coaches helps each employee navigate the path back to school, providing individualized support from day one through program completion. Fast Company recently named Guild as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies and we've raised over $70 million from top tier investors including Felicis, Bessemer, Redpoint, Rethink EDU, Harrison Metal, Cowboy Ventures, Salesforce and Workday Ventures.

To apply, please send us the following:

1. Portfolio link with 3 or more case studies exemplifying your past work and process
2. LinkedIn profile