Product Designer

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

Who We Look For

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 are made up of 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. Planning Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program.

The Hiring Process

During the hiring process, you’ll have a chance to interact with several members of our team. We want this process to feel clear, respectful, and human—you’re getting to know us just as much as we’re getting to know you.

Applications will be accepted until November 16, 2026 at 8:00am PT. We review applications on a rolling basis and may close the posting early once we’ve built a strong pool of candidates, so we encourage you to apply early!

We’ll begin the interview process once the job posting closes, with an anticipated start date in January 2027. 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 our UX Design Managers
• Step Five: A reference request, where we’ll ask you to share contact information for a current or previous manager, and a current or previous coworker
• Step Six: Interview over Zoom with a few team members who support our Giving product
• Step Seven: Pending all goes well, we'll extend an offer

Compensation & Logistics

• This is a US-based role; candidates must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States (we are currently unable to offer employment to those with H-1B visas)
• Candidates must be willing to travel three times each year to connect with the rest of the team
• The annual salary range for this position is $132,000 - $160,000 

Benefits

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

Get paid:

• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Charitable giving match up to $2,000/year
• Up to $300 monthly coworking stipend
• Allowance for continued education

Get out:

• Paid Fridays off, all year long!
• A month-long sabbatical every five years
• A week off between Christmas and New Year's
• A paid week each year to serve with a globally focused nonprofit
• Two weeks of paid vacation (growing to three over time)

Be healthy:

• 95% medical and 100% dental premium coverage
• $200/month toward physical fitness and mental health
• Paid sick time