What's in the role for you

• A team to learn from. The product team is experienced and includes people who previously worked at Miro, Palta, Uber, and Bolt. Everyone here runs their own initiatives, so the people around you already work the way this role asks you to. At this size you'd be in the room when product decisions get made rather than hearing the outcome later, and you'd get direct feedback on your thinking from people who have done this at larger scale.
• Shaping mobile learning in a product with more than a million users. SmartyMe is live and used daily, so the changes you make show up in the numbers within days rather than quarters. Very few designers get to work at that scale of feedback on something they own outright.
• Freedom to test hypotheses. If you can prototype it, you can test it. You don't need to assemble consensus or wait for a planning cycle to try an idea, and production has clear risk guardrails rather than blanket approvals.
• Broad scope for one seat. Design, product decisions, and building in a single role. It's a rare combination to practise in one place, and the three skills compound rather than compete.
• A short path to decisions. You'd report directly to the VP of Product and partner with a strong product manager, with no layers between your work and the people who decide. AI tools are part of how we work rather than a side experiment.

Technical skills

3+ years of product design including mobile apps.

• Product design experience: hands-on work on real products, ideally mobile-first consumer apps. EdTech, wellness, or habit-building products are a plus.
• Prototyping with AI tools: you build working prototypes yourself in Claude Code, Codex, Replit, or similar. This is a requirement. Pushing small production changes is a plus, not an expectation.
• Product and metrics literacy: you can express work as a hypothesis, covering what should change, roughly how much, and what would indicate you were wrong.
• AI features: comfortable designing around AI-powered functionality and hypotheses that keep shifting.
• Figma: components, auto layout, variants, prototyping, versioning.

Nice to have: activation and retention work, games or content-heavy products, design systems, something you've shipped independently.

How you work

These carry as much weight in our decision as the technical skills above.

• Ownership (the primary requirement). You take a problem and stay accountable for the outcome, not for the hand-off. That means deciding without full information, unblocking yourself, chasing the people you need, and reporting where things stand before anyone asks. The team is compact and nobody will be managing you through the steps.
• Proactivity. Identifying what needs doing and starting it, rather than waiting for the problem to be assigned and defined. A meaningful share of the work you do here will be work you proposed.
• Comfort with ambiguity. Problems arrive underdefined, and turning them into something workable is part of the job rather than a prerequisite for starting it.
• Preference for shipping. Getting to a rough working version early rather than extending the planning stage.
• Attention to craft. Spacing, clarity, copy, and the details in between.
• Direct communication. Explaining design decisions openly in Slack, Figma, and live sessions, raising problems early, and disagreeing when you think a decision is wrong.
• Learning speed. We weight rate of improvement more heavily than years of experience.

Hiring process

1. Portfolio screening. We look at how you framed problems and what came out of them, including the parts that didn't go smoothly. Cases with the reasoning shown tell us more than a set of finished screens.
2. Recruiter screening. Basics, level, motivation, and logistics.
3. Job and partnership fit interview (45 min). With the SmartyMe product manager, the person you'd work with most closely. The actual work of the role and how the two of you would divide and share it.
4. Team fit interview (45 to 60 min). With the VP of Product. Your background and product thinking, mostly through specific cases: something you initiated yourself, something you owned end to end, and something you decided without enough information.
5. Live working session (60 to 90 min). The final and main stage. We bring a real SmartyMe problem with incomplete data and no spec. We narrow it together, form a hypothesis, and you build something during the session using your own tools. We're interested in the reasoning and in how quickly you get to something real, not in a finished answer.