Product Designer - Planning Center

About Planning Center

Planning Center exists to help churches build stronger, more connected communities.

Since 2006, over 80,000 churches have trusted our tools to care for their people—whether that’s communicating with their congregation, organizing important information, or coordinating the details that make ministry happen.

We’re an independent, profitable company with no outside investors. That means we get to focus on building products thoughtfully, caring for our team well, and making decisions for the long term.

Our team is fully remote, working together daily through tools like Slack, Asana, Linear, Notion, and Zoom. Three times a year we gather to connect in person, strengthen relationships, and align on where we’re headed.

About the Work

Planning Center is looking for a Product Designer to join our UX Design team, with a focus on our Giving 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'll own the experience from early problem framing all the way to shipped product, supporting church administrators and the congregants they serve. You'll also take a leading role in evolving Doxy, our design system for Church Center.

Responsibilities

• Lead design on one or more product squads, partnering with Product Managers, Engineering, and other designers to set direction and make trade-offs.
• Own the design quality and craft of the products you support, keeping standards high across every detail.
• Help shape ambiguous problems into clear solutions, with a strong sense of what’s being built, why, and for whom.
• Craft simple, intuitive experiences with our customers in mind, accounting for accessibility, localization, and every interaction state.
• Advocate for design strategy in your products, using research to validate decisions when needed.
• Contribute to and champion our design systems to support our suite of products.
• Communicate your work with clarity and confidence, building consensus and handling feedback gracefully.
• Strengthen the design team through feedback, design reviews, and the example you set, including thoughtful use of AI tools.

What You Bring

• At least four years of UX/UI design experience.
• Proven experience that shows both craft depth and systems thinking.
• Ownership of your work, and the drive to move forward independently.
• Collaboration and a natural ability to build strong working relationships with PMs, engineers, fellow designers, and other disciplines.
• A desire to explore the products you design for, ask good questions, and come to conversations already having done your homework.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You don't need perfect information to move forward.
• Active use of AI as part of your design process, and judgment to know when to trust it and when to push back.
• Ability to communicate design vision and language through design systems.
• Genuine curiosity about the people using your software.

Core Values

• Engage with Humility: We actively participate with openness and receptiveness. We are ready to listen, learn, and speak thoughtfully and kindly.
• 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 output quality and contribute to team success.
• Focus on Customer Impact: We advocate for our customer’s best interests in our decision-making.
• Think Holistically, Work Iteratively: We focus on taking practical steps towards our goals with an awareness of the broader context—thinking big, working small.

Compensation & Logistics

• Salary: $132,000 - $160,000 USD per year
• Location: Remote (US-based). Candidates must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States (H-1B visa sponsorship is unavailable).
• Travel: Candidates must be willing to travel three times each year for team offsites.

Benefits & Perks

• Pay & Giving: 401(k) with 3% company contribution, charitable giving match up to $2,000/year, up to $300/month coworking stipend, and allowance for continued education.
• Time Off: Paid Fridays off all year long, month-long sabbatical every five years, a week off between Christmas and New Year's, one paid week per year for nonprofit service, and 2-3 weeks paid vacation.
• Health & Wellness: 95% medical and 100% dental premium coverage, $200/month toward physical fitness and mental health, plus paid sick time.