Product Designer, Builder

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of product challenges from the initial discovery phase through design, prototyping, launch, and subsequent measurement.

• Gain insights into user issues through conversations, data analysis, and product evaluation.

• Develop functional prototypes independently utilizing AI tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Replit.

• Establish product hypotheses and anticipated metrics prior to commencing any work.

• Assess whether product metrics have shifted post-launch.

• Collaborate with the product manager to manage specific product branches.

• Design straightforward, consistent solutions with attention to spacing, typography, states, and handling edge cases.

• Contribute to SmartyMe, a mobile educational application utilized by over one million users.

• Articulate design choices through Slack, Figma, and in live sessions.

• Engage in portfolio reviews, recruiter assessments, partnership-fit and team-fit interviews, as well as a live working session addressing an incomplete SmartyMe challenge.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in product design, particularly with mobile applications.

• Practical product design experience with real-world products, preferably mobile-first consumer applications.

• Required proficiency in developing working prototypes using AI tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Replit, or equivalent.

• Capability to articulate work as hypotheses, encompassing expected changes, approximate magnitude, and indicators of failure.

• Comfort in designing AI-driven functionalities and adapting to evolving hypotheses.

• Proficient in Figma: components, auto layout, variants, prototyping, and versioning.

• Demonstrated high level of ownership and accountability for results.

• Proactive mindset with a strong ability to identify and initiate tasks.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and undefined problems comfortably.

• Preference for releasing rough working versions early in the process.

• Keen attention to design quality, including spacing, clarity, copy, and finer details.

• Skill in communicating design decisions effectively via Slack, Figma, and live sessions.

• Capacity to make informed decisions even with incomplete information.

• Experience in EdTech, wellness, or habit-forming products is advantageous.

• Background in activation and retention strategies, games or content-rich products, design systems, or independently launched products is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Direct reporting line to the VP of Product.

• Receive immediate feedback from seasoned product team members.

• Autonomy to test hypotheses without waiting for consensus or planning cycles.

• Clearly defined production risk parameters.

• Broad responsibilities encompassing design, product decisions, and development.

• Shortened route to decision-making.

• Integration of AI tools into daily workflows.