Principal 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 working learning model that's already delivering results at Alpha School. LearnWithAI powers the platform beneath 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 model is effective. What it requires now is someone who thinks constantly about the people within the system.

You'll establish design excellence, define the standards, and create the function from the ground up. Your scope includes our learning platform and its associated learning applications, serving diverse audiences both within and outside Alpha.
A five-year-old who hasn't yet learned to read is discovering numbers through a system that must make discovery feel like play. A teenager performing two grade levels below is regaining confidence after years of struggle, where a single unclear interaction could undo progress. A parent gains visibility into their child's actual learning process. That transparency reduces worry and turns them into an effective partner. An academic coach overseeing a multi-age classroom requires insight into progress without information overload. You must understand each context deeply enough to design genuinely distinct solutions for each.

Your responsibility is the experience layer: conduct thorough research into each audience, translate findings into design principles engineers can implement directly, and deliver code-based outputs ready for deployment—not static mockups awaiting review. You collaborate with product leaders accountable for outcomes and engineers who build and ship. You challenge requests that compromise user experience. You own the complete lifecycle.

You'll employ AI as a force multiplier to accelerate iteration and expand coverage, but your judgment—not the tool's initial output—determines what ships. Primary focus centers on our education platform, with intermittent work in other areas.