product designer for an educational app

SmartyMe is a mobile educational app that is live and used daily by more than a million users.

• Own product problems from discovery through design, prototyping, launch, and measurement;
• Understand user problems using conversations, data, and the product itself;
• Build working prototypes independently with AI tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Replit, or similar;
• Own product branches and the hypotheses behind them in partnership with the product manager;
• Define expected metrics before starting work and evaluate whether they changed afterwards;
• Create simple, consistent design solutions with careful structure, spacing, typography, states, and edge cases;
• Identify what needs doing and initiate work proactively;
• Make decisions with incomplete information and turn underdefined problems into workable solutions;
• Ship rough working versions early;
• Explain design decisions openly in Slack, Figma, and live sessions;
• Raise problems early and challenge decisions when necessary.

• 3+ Years of product design experience, including mobile apps;
• Hands-on experience designing real products, ideally mobile-first consumer apps;
• Ability to build working prototypes independently with Claude Code, Codex, Replit, or similar AI tools;
• Ability to express work as hypotheses, including expected changes, approximate magnitude, and signals that would disprove them;
• Comfortable designing AI-powered functionality and working with changing hypotheses;
• Proficiency in Figma, including components, auto layout, variants, prototyping, and versioning;
• High ownership and accountability for outcomes;
• Proactivity and ability to work without step-by-step management;
• Comfort with ambiguity and incomplete specifications;
• Strong attention to spacing, clarity, copy, and design details;
• Ability to communicate directly in Slack, Figma, and live sessions;
• Portfolio cases must show problem framing, reasoning, and outcomes;
• Nice to have: EdTech, wellness, or habit-building products, activation and retention work, games or content-heavy products, design systems, independently shipped work, pushing small production changes.

• Contractor employment;
• Direct reporting to the VP of Product;
• Relocation support is not specified.