Senior Product Designer

$200,000 USD/year ^{Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks}  ($100 USD/hour)

You'll be stepping into a learning model with verified results at Alpha School. LearnWithAI powers the platform behind it and is scaling quickly throughout the US and internationally. Students complete their core academic work in two hours daily and achieve top national percentile scores. The approach is validated. What's missing is someone who thinks first about the people using it.

Your role is to establish design excellence, create the standards, and build this capability from the ground up. You'll work across our learning platform and its connected applications, serving multiple distinct audiences within and beyond Alpha.
Consider a five-year-old who hasn't yet learned to read and is discovering numbers through an interface that must transform novelty into playful engagement. Or a teenager performing two grade levels below target, working to restore confidence after repeated academic setbacks—a single unclear interaction could reverse that progress. Then there's a parent who's finally gaining visibility into their child's learning journey. That transparency reduces stress and empowers them as effective partners. Meanwhile, an academic coach overseeing a multi-age classroom requires insight into student progress without information overload. Your challenge is understanding each context deeply enough to make meaningfully distinct design decisions for each.

You own the experience layer: conduct substantial research into each user segment, translate those insights into actionable design principles engineers can implement directly, and deliver code-ready outputs that launch immediately rather than static deliverables awaiting review cycles. You'll collaborate with product leaders accountable for outcomes and engineers responsible for deployment. You challenge requests that compromise user experience. You carry full ownership.

AI will amplify your capacity to test more iterations and expand your reach, but your expertise—not algorithmic suggestions—determines what gets released. Your primary focus is our education platform, with selected initiatives in additional areas.