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're joining a validated learning framework already delivering measurable results at Alpha School. LearnWithAI powers the platform, scaling rapidly throughout the US and internationally. Students complete their core academics in two hours daily and score in the nation's top percentiles. The methodology is proven. What's required now is someone who approaches each day focused on the people within the system.

You'll establish design excellence, create the standards, and develop the function. Your domain covers our learning platform and its associated learning applications, serving diverse audiences both within and outside Alpha.
A five-year-old who hasn't learned to read yet navigates a system teaching counting—one that must make discovery feel effortless. A teenager performing two grades below level is regaining trust after prolonged academic struggle, where a single unclear interaction could reverse progress. A parent gains visibility into their child's actual learning process. That transparency reduces stress and transforms them into an empowered advocate. An academic coach overseeing a multi-age classroom requires visibility into advancement without information overload. Your role demands understanding each group thoroughly enough to make authentically distinct design decisions for each.

Your responsibility is the experience layer: investigate each audience with substantive depth, translate your findings into design principles engineers can implement directly, and deliver code-ready outputs that function immediately—not static mockups awaiting review cycles. You collaborate with product leaders accountable for outcomes and engineers who deploy code. You challenge requests that compromise user experience. You own the complete cycle.

You'll employ AI as a force multiplier to accelerate iteration and expand coverage, but your discernment—not the algorithm's initial output—determines what ships. Primary focus remains our education platform, with periodic work in adjacent domains.