Lead 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 joining a validated learning model already delivering measurable results at Alpha School. LearnWithAI powers the platform behind it and is scaling rapidly across the United States and internationally. Students complete their core academics in two hours daily and score in the top national percentiles. The approach is proven. What's missing is someone who thinks daily about the people using it.

You'll establish what excellent design means, create the standards, and develop the function. Your scope includes our learning platform and its complementary learning applications, serving diverse audiences both within and outside Alpha.
A five-year-old who hasn't learned to read yet is discovering numbers through a system that must transform novelty into play. A teenager working two grade levels below is restoring confidence after years of struggling, where a single unclear interaction could set them back. A parent gains visibility into their child's actual learning process. That transparency reduces worry and enables them to provide meaningful support. An academic coach overseeing a multi-age classroom requires visibility into progress without information overload. You must understand each audience deeply enough to make fundamentally distinct design decisions for each.

Your role centers on the experience layer: conduct thorough research into each audience, translate your 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 who drive outcomes and engineers who deploy code. You challenge requests that compromise user experience. You maintain end-to-end ownership.

You'll employ AI as a multiplier to accelerate iteration and expand coverage, but your judgment—not the model's initial output—determines what launches. Primary focus remains our education platform, with periodic projects spanning other domains.