Senior UI/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
Description
This role connects you with a learning model already delivering measurable impact at Alpha School. LearnWithAI powers the platform underneath, scaling rapidly throughout the US and internationally. Students complete their core academics in two hours daily and rank in the nation's top percentiles. The system is validated. What it requires now is someone who thinks constantly about the people it serves.
You will establish design excellence, create standards, and build the capability. Your remit covers our learning platform and its associated learning applications, serving diverse audiences both within Alpha and beyond.
A five-year-old who hasn't started reading yet learns to count through a system where novelty must feel like play. A teenager behind by two grade levels is reconstructing confidence after years of struggle, and a single confusing interaction could set them back. A parent gains visibility into how their child truly learns. That transparency reduces worry and transforms them into an effective partner. An academic coach overseeing a classroom with mixed ages must track progress without information overload. You must understand each group deeply enough to design genuinely distinct solutions for each.
Your remit is the experience layer: investigate each audience with substantial depth, translate findings into design principles engineers can implement directly, and deliver code-ready outputs that function immediately, not mockups awaiting review cycles. You collaborate with product leaders accountable for outcomes and engineers responsible for delivery. You challenge requests that compromise user experience. You own the entire scope.
You will deploy AI to accelerate iteration and expand coverage, but your discernment, not the model's initial output, determines what gets released. Primary emphasis is our education platform, supplemented by occasional work in other areas.
What you will be doing
- Investigate users spanning fundamentally different audiences and develop design principles reflecting that understanding
- Construct and sustain design systems embedded within each product's native UI framework, enabling faster engineering delivery and compounding design value rather than fragmentation
- Develop functional prototypes allowing product leaders to validate decisions in days rather than weeks
- Evaluate existing products through the user lens: identify experience breakdowns, pinpoint engagement costs, determine high-impact opportunities
- Establish design culture: feedback mechanisms, trade-off evaluation frameworks, non-negotiable standards
- Collaborate with product leaders and engineers, challenge requests that degrade user experience
What you will NOT be doing
- Determining product strategy; product leaders retain that responsibility, you ensure experience alignment
- Creating static mockups requiring translation to code
- Focusing on a single product; you work across the complete portfolio
- Executing against a design brief; you extract context from ambiguous inputs and begin designing with partial information
- Waiting for approval; you possess authority to surface and resolve UX issues independently
Candidate requirements
- Minimum 5 years in product design or UX positions, demonstrating complete ownership from research through delivered experience
- Clear evidence of user empathy and research rigor across audiences unlike yourself
- Established design excellence in interaction and visual design, with portfolio demonstrating audience-tailored choices over generic patterns, combined with articulated design perspectives
- Documented AI-native approach: rapid iteration, critical evaluation, and willingness to reject initial AI output instead of defaulting to it
- Capability to convert designs into code leveraging AI tools and contemporary frameworks
- Prepared to establish a design function and culture from the ground up, not stepping into existing structures
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