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}  ($100 USD/hour)

You'll join a validated educational framework already delivering measurable results at Alpha School. LearnWithAI powers the platform and is scaling rapidly throughout the United States and internationally. Students complete their core academic work in two hours daily and achieve top national percentile scores. The system is effective. What it requires now is someone who thinks daily about the people using it.

You'll establish design excellence, create the standards, and develop the function. Your domain includes our learning platform and its associated learning applications, serving varied audiences both within and beyond Alpha.
Consider a five-year-old who cannot yet read, learning numbers through an interface where discovery must feel like exploration. Consider a teenager working two grade levels below target, reconstructing self-belief after repeated setbacks—a single unclear interaction could reverse their progress. Consider a parent who finally understands their child's learning journey. That transparency reduces worry and enables them to provide meaningful support. Consider an academic coach overseeing a multi-age classroom who must track advancement without information overload. You must understand each context thoroughly enough to design genuinely distinct solutions for each.

Your role centers on the experience layer: investigate each audience with substantial depth, translate your findings into design principles engineers can implement directly, and deliver code-ready outputs that function immediately, not static designs awaiting approval. You collaborate with product leaders accountable for outcomes and engineers who deploy working code. You challenge requests that compromise user experience. You maintain complete ownership.

You'll employ AI as a multiplier to accelerate iteration and expand coverage, but your discernment—not the tool's initial output—determines what launches. Primary focus remains our education platform, supplemented by occasional work in other areas.