Planning Center is hiring a
UX Designer (Product) - Hybrid

About Planning Center

About the Work

• Take ownership of your projects and craft a design strategy for our suite of products.
• Collaborate across multiple teams and with your team of fellow designers. This includes working with Product Managers, Product Designers, Support, and Marketing.
• Advocate for our customers by crafting user experiences that are simple and intuitive.
• Contribute patterns and recommendations to our design system to promote consistency across products.

Who We Look For

• Engage with Humility - We actively participate with openness and receptiveness. We are ready to listen, learn, and speak thoughtfully and kindly—regardless of skill level, expertise, or place on the org chart.
• Invest in our team - We give our time and energy to our team’s success—improving collaboration with effective communication, making space for diverse perspectives, sharing knowledge, and asking questions.
• Do Our Best Work - We aspire to do our best possible work—continually looking for ways to improve the quality of our individual output and contribute to our team's overall success and growth.
• Focus on Customer Impact - We advocate for our customer’s best interests in our decision-making—we can trace the goal of every project back to creating positive value for our customers.
• Think Holistically, Work Iteratively - We focus on taking practical steps towards our goals with an awareness of the broader context—thinking big, working small.

The Hiring Process

• Our Recruiting and Growth Strategist
• Several designers from the Product Design Team
• The UX Design Manager you'll report to

• Step one: Apply with a resume, cover letter, and portfolio. Your cover letter should speak directly to your interest in this position. We want to know what got you into design, how your experience has set you up for success in this role, and why you want to join our team. Applicants without a portfolio will not be considered.
  
  (A word of caution for those using AI cover letters: When compared to the hundreds of other candidates who did the exact same thing, it becomes painfully obvious who took the AI first draft. If you're going to use these tools, we ask that you use them well. Please give our recruiter something a bit more human to read.)
  
  
• Step two: Initial phone call with our recruiter so we can get to know one another
• Step three: An online design exercise to assess your design prowess and get a rough understanding of your experience and skills
• Step four: Interview over Zoom with the Product Design Manager and a few of our designers
• Step five: Pending all goes well, an offer

For Hiring

• Full-time resident in the United States
• Eligible to work in the United States

For the work itself

• An impressive portfolio of UX Case studies and visual UI design work.
• Previous experience designing interfaces and interactions for a web-based product.
• Strong sense of composition, UI design, and UX best practices.
• Knowledge of accessibility concerns and designing for a wide range of stress cases.
• Proficiency with design tools. We use Figma as our preferred UI/prototyping tool. Experience with comparable tools like Sketch, and XD will also be considered.
• Experience shepherding a project through the cycles of discovery, ideation, testing, and iteration.
• Clear verbal and written communication and the aptitude for writing design specifications.
• Invested - We care about the products we create and the people we create them for, and we all contribute to the vision and direction of our products. Every one of our designers is critical to their team.
• Curious - We aren’t afraid to ask questions, experiment, and iterate. We also love playing with fun new technologies & processes, and we take time every few months to do just that.
• Humble - We always seek opportunities to grow and learn from one another.