Associate Digital Designer
San Mateo, CAFull-time$71–95K/yrPosted 3w agoStill listed today
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IXL Learning seeks an Associate Digital Designer to create engaging designs across digital product marketing, print, web, mobile, and tablet platforms. The role offers new graduates or candidates with 1–2 years of experience an opportunity to learn the company’s design philosophy and contribute to its education products. The designer will work with design, product, and marketing teams from the San Mateo headquarters.
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IXL Learning, developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, is seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated Associate Digital Designer to join our design team and create elegant, engaging designs and concepts across a myriad of design disciplines that will excite and motivate our audiences. This role is designed to offer new graduates or candidates with 1-2 years of experience the opportunity to quickly establish a solid understanding of our design philosophy of creating amazing edtech experiences across all of our brands: IXL, Rosetta Stone, Teachers Pay Teachers, Education.com, Wyzant, Vocabulary.com, and more. At IXL Learning, we are dedicated to creating first-of-their-kind products that leverage cutting-edge technologies to solve seemingly intractable problems in education. Millions of users count on us to make learning as effective as can be, so we're looking for exceptional people who are committed to solving the real-world challenges faced by students and teachers around the world. Our products are renowned for making online learning both intuitive and fun, and we’re seeking an individual that can bring creative flair, innovation, and craft that will continue to delight our customers. This is a full-time position that requires you to be in our IXL headquarters office in San Mateo, CA. #LI-TB1 WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
- Create visual experiences for digital/product marketing, print, user-facing web, mobile, and tablet-based platforms
- Transform wireframes into original, creative mock-ups in low and high-fidelity prototypes
- Design brand and marketing assets that help drive engagement and support product initiatives
- Inspire users with attractive, compelling designs while maintaining visual consistency and brand identity
- Participate in collaborative feedback sessions with the design team and cross-functional teams
- Communicate with product, marketing team members, and key stakeholders to understand and interpret project requirements
- Enhance existing interfaces or designs with new layouts, photos, graphics, and content
- Collaborate with our marketing teams to design emails, promotions, online ads, and marketing collateral
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- BA/BS degree
- Demonstrated experience in UX/UI, product design
- Ability to create user-centric, clutter-free, visually consistent designs
- Expert-level knowledge of InDesign, Illustrator, and the wider Adobe Creative Suite
- Ability to create clean, clutter-free designs that are consistent with our established style
- Working knowledge of product design tools such as Figma or Sketch
- Understanding of UX/UI processes, methodologies, design libraries, knowledge of responsive web practices, and principles
- Ability to effectively communicate visually, verbally, and in writing
- Meticulous attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple design requests in a timely fashion
- Passion for outstanding, elegant design
- Experience in print design is a plus
- Interest in education is a plus
WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR APPLICATION
- Your resume
- A cover letter under 600 words, so that we can get to know you better
- A link to your portfolio and work samples in your resume or cover letter
The base salary range for this full-time position is $71,000 to $95,000 + benefits. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the position. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. ABOUT IXL LEARNING IXL Learning is the country's largest EdTech company. We reach millions of learners through our diverse range of products. For example:
- 1 in 4 students in the United States uses IXL.com
- Rosetta Stone provides an immersive learning experience for 25 languages
- Wyzant is the nation's largest community of tutors, covering 300+ subjects
- Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) is a comprehensive marketplace for millions of educator-created resources
Our mission is to create innovative products that will make a real, positive difference for learners and educators and we're looking for passionate, mission-minded people to join us in achieving this goal. We have a unique culture at IXL that fosters collaboration and the open exchange of ideas. We value our team and treat one another with kindness and respect. We approach our work with passion, tenacity, and authenticity. We find it immensely satisfying to develop products that impact the lives of millions and we are eager to have you join our team. At IXL, we value diversity in age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, political and religious beliefs, and life experience, and we are proud to promote a work environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work. IXL Learning is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against applicants and employees based on any legally protected category.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,975 open Product Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$71–95K/yr
- California median$166–230K/yr496 salary ranges
- US median$148–214K/yr1,460 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $83K, is 57% below the California median midpoint ($195K) — in the lowest quarter of Product Designer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 650 open Product Designer jobs in California and 1,975 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Product Designer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,580 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 401 of the 1,975 open Product Designer jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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