Senior UX 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 validated educational model already delivering measurable impact at Alpha School. LearnWithAI powers the platform beneath it, scaling rapidly across the United States and internationally. Students complete their core academics in two hours daily and score in the nation's top percentiles. The model is effective. What it requires now is someone who begins each day focused on the people it serves.

You'll establish design excellence, create the standards, and construct the function. Your domain includes our learning platform and its associated learning applications, serving varied audiences both within and beyond Alpha.
A five-year-old who hasn't learned to read yet approaches counting through a system that must transform novelty into play. A teenager performing two grades below level is reconstructing confidence following years of academic struggle, where a single unclear interaction could reverse their progress. A parent gains visibility into their child's actual learning process. This transparency reduces their concern and transforms them into an effective partner. An academic coach overseeing a multi-age classroom requires progress visibility without information overload. You must understand each group thoroughly enough to make authentically distinct design decisions for each.

Your responsibility is the experience layer: conduct deep research into each audience, translate your findings into design principles engineers can implement directly, and deliver code-ready outputs that function immediately, not conceptual mockups awaiting review cycles. You collaborate with product leaders accountable for outcomes and engineers responsible for shipping code. You challenge requests that compromise user experience. You maintain complete ownership.

You'll leverage AI to accelerate iteration and expand coverage, but your judgment—not the model's initial output—determines what ships. Primary focus remains our education platform, with periodic projects in additional domains.