About the Role
- Design is the single highest-leverage investment at Knowunity right now, and you’ll be at the center of that shift.
- We’ve built a product millions of students love, powered by an engineering team that ships & learns extraordinarily fast.
- We are going all-in on craft, focusing on UI excellence, motion design, and systematic thinking.
- We just brought on a new Head of Design.
- We’re building a Design System from the ground up.
- We’re working with Ragged Edge (the agency behind the Transferwise & Granola rebrands) on a major brand evolution.
What You'll Be Doing
- Raise the bar on everything students see, touch & feel to make the Knowunity product undeniably world-class.
- Set the standard: Create UIs students want to screenshot & details they feel, but can’t name, making your work the reference point.
- Scale it: Use curated references, stellar components & sharp reviews to make it easy even for vibe-coding PMs to hit the standard.
- Pioneer AI-native design: Figure out how AI changes how we research, ideate, and ship, as well as what we ship, from AI-assisted workflows to AI-native product experiences.
- Idea to production, fast: Work directly with C-level & engineering to move from concept to being live for a million students rapidly.
What You'll Bring
Your portfolio matters more than your years of experience; show us work that moved metrics & delighted users.
Craft-obsessed: The details are the design, and you push back until the bar is raised.
AI enthusiast: From Prototyping to research to shipping, you see AI tools as a multiplier.
Systems thinker: You care about scaling quality across a product, not just a pretty Figma library, using Code-first design systems and AI-powered design reviews to work at speed & scale.
Simplifier: You turn complicated user journeys into experiences that feel obvious.
Biased to action: You move fast by default, preferring Prototypes over presentations and experiments over endless debate.
Builder: You like getting your hands dirty, with bonus points if you’ve shipped a side project end to end or opened a merge request.
Team-first: You value direct feedback and have no preciousness regarding territory.
Curious: You stay up to date with new tools, patterns, and ways of thinking through continuous experimentation.
Compensation & Benefits
- Impact at scale: Your work reaches millions of students daily.
- Elite team, real ownership: Work with +60 exceptional people and have direct access to C-level & founders, owning entire areas from conception to delivery.
- Compensation & equity: Competitive salary paired with meaningful equity in a company with genuine unicorn potential.
- 28 days annual leave.
- 40 days work from anywhere.
- Personal development budget.
- Mental health support.
- Urban Sports Club.
- Monthly retail vouchers.
- Team & company events.
Interview Process
- Intro call: Get to know each other and see if there’s mutual excitement.
- 5 minute Loom: Walk us through something you’re proud of, such as a feature you shipped or an app you vibe-coded.
- Deep-dive call: Unpack your Loom case with our Head of Design/CPO to discuss your experience & perspective.
- On-site day: Meet our CEO, CPO & the team to work together and get a real feel for the culture; travel will be covered.
About Knowunity
- We're building the #1 AI learning companion for 1 billion students, aiming for a future where every student can access, enjoy & benefit from the highest quality education.
- Since founding Knowunity straight out of high school in 2020, we've been committed to revolutionising how students learn.
- Millions of students already use our AI learning companion weekly.
- We just raised €27m, which is Europe’s largest education round in the past three years.
- You will join an elite team of +60 hands-on builders serving 1 billion students worldwide.