Product Designer

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About Planning Center

Planning Center, established in 2006, has grown to support over 90,000 churches worldwide. As an independent company, we pride ourselves on being debt-free with no outside investors. Churches use our tools to communicate and connect with their congregations, organize information, and coordinate events. We’re committed to building great products that solve real problems using web and mobile products.

Our team enjoys the flexibility of remote work, utilizing tools like Asana, Slack, Notion, and Zoom for collaboration. We gather three times a year at our main office in Carlsbad, CA, fostering our work relationships.

About the Work

Planning Center is looking for a Product Designer to join our UX Design team, with a focus on our Church Center product. You'll work day-to-day alongside your product PM and Engineering Manager, while staying plugged into a UX team that does weekly design critiques and genuinely cares about craft. You own the experience from early problem framing all the way to shipped product, across two connected products used by church administrators and the congregants they serve. You'll also take a leading role in evolving Doxy, our design system for Church Center.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across multiple disciplines (Product Managers, Engineering, QA, Support Specialists, and other UX Designers)
• Craft user experiences that are simple and intuitive with our customers in mind
• Contribute to our design system to support our suite of products
• Advocate for design strategy in the products you work with

Who We Look For

Beyond your impressive background, you also bring the following:

• Proven experience that shows both craft depth and systems thinking.
• Someone who takes ownership of their work and drives it forward independently.
• A natural collaborator who builds strong working relationships with PMs, engineers, fellow designers, and other disciplines.
• You explore the products you design for, ask good questions, and come to conversations already having done your homework.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. You don't need perfect information to move forward.
• Actively using AI as part of your design process, with the judgment to know when to trust it and when to push back.
• Ability to communicate design vision and language through design systems.
• Genuinely curious about the people using your software.

The best fits for any role on the Planning Center team are people embodying our Core Values:

• 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.

We believe the strongest teams comprise people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, and we are committed to cultivating that diversity here at Planning Center. We're building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do your best work.

The Hiring Process

During the hiring process, you’ll have a chance to interact with several members of our team. We strongly encourage you to bring any questions to anybody you interact with. You’re interviewing us as much as we’re interviewing you.

Applications will be accepted until April 2nd, 2026 at 8:00am PT. Please note that we may not reach out about next steps until after the application window closes.

Below is an outline of the steps in our hiring process.

• Step One: Apply with a resume and complete the application questions so we can learn more about your background and experience

Our application questions are a chance for us to get to know you, so feel free to answer them the way you might in a cover letter and in your own words.

• Step Two: Initial phone screen with someone from our Talent Acquisition team to get to know one another and discuss work and culture
• Step Three: An online design exercise to assess your approach to design and get a rough understanding of your experience and skills
• Step Four: Interview over Zoom with the UX Design Manager, Director of Design, and another one of our UX Design Managers
• Step Five:Interview over Zoom with a few team members that support our Church Center product
• Step Six: Pending all goes well, we'll extend an offer

Requirements

• Reside in the United States
• Eligible to work in the United States (we are currently*unable*to offer employment to those with H-1B visas)
• Be willing to travel three times each year to connect with the rest of the team
• 4+ years of UX/UI design experience
• Portfolio demonstrating craft depth and systems thinking
• Experience working directly with Product and Engineering as a peer, not just an executor
• Experience working in product design, particularly in designing native mobile apps
• Familiarity with design systems and Figma libraries
• Experience contributing to or working within a design system

Benefits and Compensation

We love our team—it’s one of the core pillars that guides how we work every day. That’s why we invest deeply in your well-being, growth, and balance. Here are some highlights (you can explore all our benefits here):

Get paid:

We offer competitive pay no matter where you live. We also contribute to your 401(k), provide a charitable giving match of up to $2,000 per year, offer a generous allowance for continued education, and include a coworking stipend. The annual salary range for this position is $132,000-$168,000.

Be healthy:

You’ll receive generous paid sick and vacation time, $200 per month for physical fitness and mental health, and 95% medical plus 100% dental premium coverage.

Get out:

Enjoy paid Fridays year-round, because we believe doing your best work includes having the time and space to rest, recharge, and live fully. We also offer a month-long sabbatical every five years, a week off between Christmas and New Year’s, a week each year to serve with a globally focused non-profit, and two weeks of paid vacation (increasing to three over time).