UX Designer

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

We're seeking a talented UX Designer with product design expertise to join our centralized UX Design team. In this role, you'll:

• 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

What You Bring

• An impressive portfolio of visual design work
• Experience designing for web and mobile
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong UX/UI skills and knowledge of industry best practices
• Proficiency with design tools like Figma
• Experience shepherding a project through the cycles of discovery, ideation, testing, and iteration.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• 3+ years of professional product design experience (bootcamp projects excluded)

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 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 5:00 PM PST on November 18, 2025.

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

• Step one: Apply with your resume, complete the application questions without the use of AI, and include a link to your work samples (Portfolio, GitHub, etc.) in your application — we’d love to see what you’ve created! Applicants without work samples will not be considered.
• Step two: Initial phone call with our talent acquisition specialist so we can get to know one another
• 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: Pending all goes well, we'll extend an offer

We’re beginning interviews right away, but the person hired for this role will start in January 2026. This timeline gives both you and our team space for a thoughtful transition.

Requirements

1. Reside in the United States
2. Eligible to work in the United States (we are currently unable to offer employment to those with H-1B visas)
3. Be willing to travel three times each year to connect with the rest of the team
4. 3+ years of professional product design experience (bootcamp projects excluded)

Benefits

We love our team. It’s one of the core pillars we work off of every day, which is why we take care of you as best we can. Here are a few highlights, but you can find all our benefits here.

Get paid: We pay competitive rates no matter where you live, contribute to your 401k, provide a charitable giving match of up to $2,000 a year, have a generous allowance for continued education, and offer a co-working stipend. The annual salary range for this position is $136,000 – $160,000.

Be healthy: Generous paid sick time and vacation time, $200 a month for physical fitness and mental health, 95% medical & 100% dental premium health coverage. These are just a few of the benefits we offer — to learn more, check out the link above.

Get out: Paid Fridays off year-round starting in 2026, a month-long sabbatical every five years, one week off between Christmas & New Year, one week off a year to serve with a globally-focused non-profit, and two weeks paid vacation a year increasing to three over time.