Founding Product Designer, Gizmo

• 5+ years designing digital products with a portfolio showing both sharp UX thinking and a high level of craft
• Comfortable planning and running user research - interviews, surveys, and rapid tests
• Fast, iterative, and impact-focused: you know when to sweat a detail and when to ship to learn more
• Working knowledge of motion tools (After Effects, Principle, Lottie) and an eye for playful animation

Desirable

• We’re building Duolingo-for-Anything: an AI-powered platform that turns anything you are learning into a social, gamified learning experience. We are growing rapidly, backed by top VCs, and recently raised $22m in Series A funding
• We’re now elevating the product with greater polish and craft, and we’re looking for our third design hire to help us create the most engaging learning experience yet
• Invent the future of learning with AI: AI is evolving at rapid speed, and we believe that the winning UX paradigms haven’t been discovered yet. Here you’ll have a chance to experiment, invent, and push new tools to their limits
• Be the third full time design hire: You'll shape Gizmo’s design DNA. You won't just follow established processes; you'll create them, influencing everything from our visual identity to our design culture
• Join a design-centric team: The whole company believes that outstanding, delightful design will be the key to winning over consumers and building learning experiences that last
• Work with ambitious, kind people: We’ve hired a fantastic team who are all deeply committed to building delightful, innovative product experiences
• Craft core flows: Help us rethink our UX by mapping, prototyping, testing and iterating on core product flows from end to end
• Spend hours with users: Whether it’s identifying new needs or evaluating current features, you’ll spend a lot of time talking to users
• Design playful game loops: Create motivating mechanics, rewards and progression systems that make learning fun
• Evolve our icon and illustration language: Extend the existing library and create new assets
• Bring interfaces to life with motion: Craft UI and character animations that make every action feel responsive and fun