Product Marketing Manager (English)

Job Description
Art of Problem Solving is reimagining the end-to-end experience for families and students from first discovery through long-term learning – by unifying a historically fragmented set of experiences into a single, cohesive journey. As the Director of Product Design, you will lead this transformation across both the customer journey and the learning experience. You will also play a key role in translating our evolving brand identity into product, ensuring it is not just expressed visually, but meaningfully embedded in how our products feel, function, and support learning.

We're looking for a player-coach who can set direction, elevate design quality, and actively engage in design team work through critique and mentorship, design workshops, and exploration of new tools and technologies that improve how we build.

The Director of Product Design will

Set and drive the design vision for a cohesive end-to-end experience across discovery, enrollment, and learning, unifying fragmented products and journeys into a clear, connected system
Translate AoPS's evolving brand identity into product experiences, ensuring it is reflected in how our products work, feel, and support learning
Shape how Product, Design, and Engineering work together, evolving team workflows and adopting modern tools (including AI) to improve speed, quality, and collaboration
Partner closely with Academics teams to ensure pedagogy meaningfully informs the design of learning experiences
Establish and scale design systems, standards, and practices that enable consistency, quality, and velocity across teams
Build and lead a strong design function by hiring, mentoring, and developing designers, and fostering a culture of thoughtful critique, high standards, and continuous improvement
Stay close enough to the work to provide clear, actionable design direction, stepping in on high-impact problems when needed
Strong product design experience (~8+ years) with a track record of shipping high-quality, user-centered products
Ability to operate across levels, from systems thinking and strategy to interaction and visual design details
Experience working in both structured and fast-moving environments
Strong design judgment and ability to give clear, actionable critique
Experience building or contributing to design systems at scale
Experience incorporating user insights and data into product and design decisions, and building a culture of continuous learning and evidence-based decision-making
Ability to translate brand principles into product experiences (not just visual design)
Why Join AoPS:
This is a hybrid full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA.

The hiring range for this position is $190k - $210k with a variable year-end bonus.

Impact

As Director of Product Design, you will lead the transformation of how hundreds of thousands of students and families experience AoPS, shaping a unified journey that makes world-class problem-solving education more discoverable, engaging, and effective
Casual work environment with a hybrid work week and flexible scheduling
Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans
Quality of Life:
PTO Plan and supportive leadership that gives you the work-life balance you deserve
Relocation bonus (if currently located outside of San Diego)
We are unable to offer sponsorship, including STEM-OPT and H-1B.

Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country's top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.